haha I love this!
Today in Palo Alto, California, members of the Raging Grannies Action League said that men who want drugs such as Viagra to treat impotence should be required to have strict testing before receiving said drugs.
The Grannies applauded Ohio State Senator Nina Turner who has introduced a bill requiring that physicians take specific actions before prescribing Viagra and similar drugs, including giving a cardiac stress test and making a referral to a sex therapist for confirmation that the patient’s symptoms are not solely attributable to one or more psychological conditions.
The photo was taken of members of the Raging Granny VRB (Viagra Review Board) in response to moves by Republicans to limit women’s right to reproductive health. Members of the Review Board are all women who came of age before Roe v. Wade. From their headquarters in Palo Alto they announced that they are old enough to know what it was like to live before women’s reproductive rights became law of the land, and they will do all they can to make sure that the US does not return to that era.
LOOK, LISA, FIRST OF ALL I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING AN ADULT ABOUT THIS WHOLE SITUATION AND AGREEING TO SIT DOWN AND TALK IT OUT. WE’VE BEEN GREAT ROOMMATES FOR A WHILE NOW AND I’D HATE FOR US TO LOSE THAT OVER SOMETHING SILLY LIKE MY VERY TINY, VERY LOW-KEY METH LAB.
DO YOU REMEMBER LAST YEAR WHEN YOU DID THAT THREE WEEK CLEANSE WHERE YOU ONLY DRANK LEMON JUICE AND MAPLE SYRUP WITH CAYENNE PEPPER IN IT? I SUPPORTED YOU, DIDN’T I? EVEN THOUGH I DIDN’T APPROVE. THAT’S ALL I’M ASKING IN RETURN.
AND, WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT, IF YOU’RE STILL LOOKING FOR A GOOD WEIGHT LOSS PLAN I’D LIKE TO RECOMMEND METH. IT’S BOUND TO TASTE BETTER THAN THE LEMON JUICE THING AND I’LL GIVE YOU A HUGE DISCOUNT.
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Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
obviously my future house will look like this
Hughenden manor library (UK) by Gina Collia-Suzuki.
Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
Researchers have long known that the “classical” language regions, like Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area, are involved in how the brain interprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
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The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.
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The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life. And there is evidence that just as the brain responds to depictions of smells and textures and movements as if they were the real thing, so it treats the interactions among fictional characters as something like real-life social encounters.
We no longer have to just take iconic writers’ words on the power of fiction. The New York Times’ Annie Murphy Paul explores the neuroscience of your brain on fiction and how narratives offer a way to engage the brain’s capacity to map other people’s intentions, known in psychology as “theory of mind.”
You Brain, On Fiction.
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just saw Hugo & she’s the cutest
OH YEAH. THAT’S DEFINITELY STREP.
RIGHT BEFORE YOUR RECITAL TOO. WHAT PISS POOR TIMING.
