salon vs. slate vs. atlantic

In my experience I've found that some Europeans cut the American way, but no Americans cut the European way.

...or eat the American/European way, I mean, since we all cut the same way.

today's slate headlines:

What If Your Gluten Intolerance Is All In Your Head?
George Zimmerman Is Probably Going to Walk, and That’s Not a Bad Thing
Let's Ban Tipping

wow content-wise it sounds like nro/the corner!

What if this really awful thing... is good?

Slate has the Bad Astronomy blog. I pick it.

they also published a screed against flip-flops recently

― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes),

someone had to

some poor tortured soul was all worked up enough to write an article about how wrong it is to both look and feel relaxed at the same time?

What if this really awful thing... is good?

Which is funny, because this has been the print version of The Atlantic's favorite angle for over a decade. Typically with a left-baiting premise, like "McCarthyism was a positive and necessary thing" or some such.

i still get salon and slate mixed up sometimes

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-junk-food-can-end-obesity/309396/

I'm not even reading this but

David H. Freedman is the author of Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us—And How to Know When Not to Trust Them. He has been an Atlantic contributor since 1998.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/2013/04/15/0513%20Cover_768x1024_2/mag-issue-large.png

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/07/how-junk-food-can-end-obesity/309396/

I'm not even reading this but

What the fuck

Dana Stevens' flip flop tirade was pretty fucking righteous imo

I have a ridiculous crush on Dana Stevens.

The junk food article actually doesn't seem that bad? I only skimmed it, but it just seems to be saying that processed food can be used for good as well as evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgsQqL2u09A

Whenever people get really indignant about flipflops I just assume they've never been in South Texas in August.

hey man try Miami, like, NOW.

i live herr, why do u need flip flops when u can go barefoot
xp

because the concrete will fry your skin off

callouses, get some

is dana stephens the one on the slate podcast? is she the one that talks at hotdog contest speed?

I can't drive in flip flops, so my summer footwear this year are Sanuks. Like flip flops only more awesome.

Dana Stevens is on the slate podcast, that's where my crush developed from. I'm not even 100% sure what she looks like.

jesus christ, that Oil article. You wrote an article "Why we will never run out of oil" and it's about natural gas?

Dana Stevens is their film critic.

I also have a podcast crush on her. I tend to agree with her film reviews too.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/author%20images/BIO_stevens-dana-2011.jpg

they always seem to be talking about what excellent pies they found by some out of the way new england pie monger

yeah, Stephen Metcalf is such an artisansal pie-finding douche on that podcast. But they did have my friend on a weeks ago to talk about Superman

Metcalf used the phrase "well-oaked California wine" and I thought he was just leaning into the perception of him

i guess this is supposed to be kind of funny and i sympathize with the basic problem expressed but my gut reaction to reading this was 'ugh, fuck you.'

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2013/07/kids_and_dogs_if_you_re_having_a_baby_do_not_get_a_puppy.html

I would say it's pretty good advice to not get a dog before your first child, because on one hand a child is a LOT more demanding than a dog, and on the other hand the child after a few years starts to become less demanding, whereas the dog will kind of peak early and stay there.

Anyway that's my plan, get a dog around when the kids are finally in school.

I mean maybe there are other people who are more efficient than I am, actually I know they are, but when you're home with a baby in the first year you feel like there is something you feel like there are demands on you pretty much all the time. So I can relate to how hard it would be to also deal with a dog under those circumstances. And the fact is, time IS a zero-sum game, and most people are going to put baby before dog.

Any time there's a decision to be made and one of the choices is "don't have kids," that's the option you take.

um, nope

Dog > baby x1000

do u have a baby

No. I have been in the presence of babies, and that was plenty.

puppies vs. babies-- everyone's taking sides

no it's probably good advice, the tone of the article is just insufferable and whiny

my gut reaction to complaints that revolve around multiple children close in age is "gee, maybe you should have stuck to one, huh?"

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A1GRwGjHv-L._SL1500_.jpg

xp while i kind of agree with that in theory, i must admit that it also causes a gut reaction that you are a prick

'oh these crazy people with their babies, what will they burden my life with complaints about next'

It's equally prickish for a well-educated person or couple to complain about how their life/ves revolve around the kids. That's what you signed on for when you made three babies in four years. I've got a lot more sympathy for first-time parents or, god help them, people with twins.

it's also prickish to think that no one has the right to complain at all about anything they "sign on for."

Who said that?

lol carry on then