Category: Culture (Page 1 of 21)

Lay off the women’s Olympic hockey team.

Fox News:  Trump says US women’s hockey team will ‘soon’ visit White House after declining SOTU invitation

The women’s team declined Trump’s invitation to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., citing “previously scheduled academic and professional commitments.”

This seems like one of those phony controversies that partisans try to exploit.

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Why so much coverage about this case?

This missing person case is being covered like the Lindbergh baby.  Nancy Guthrie is the mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie, but that doesn’t seem like it would be enough for this case to dominate the news. 

Maybe it’s just because true crime is a popular genre and this case is mysterious and engaging.  It probably won’t have any long-term ramifications, so isn’t interesting to me.  It almost seems like a distraction from the Epstein files, or whatever else is going on.

Words men or women know

YouGov:  Words that men or women are more likely to know

YouGov asked a bunch of Americans which words they knew.  Some words were recognized much more frequently by men, and some by women. 

Here are the words that men knew more:

aileron, azimuth, boson, bushido, checksum, degauss, femtosecond, gauss, howitzer, katana, milliamp, neodymium, parsec, piezoelectricity, servo, strafe, teraflop, thermistor and yakuza

Here are the words that women knew more:

bandeau, boucle, chambray, chenille, chignon, damask, doula, espadrille, freesia, jacquard, kohl, peplum, pessary, ruche, sateen, taffeta, tulle, verbena, voile and whipstich.

YouGov did not ask the surveyed people to define or explain the words.

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Hey Ese, Kasich is a bueno hombre.

Kasich, my former governor, looks so phony and desperate by posting about Bad Bunny.  

It’s not like anyone asked him to weigh in on the Super Bowl half-time show.  Even if he is actually a fan of Bad Bunny, he should be politically astute enough to realize this confirms that he is a puppet dickhead.  

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