Apparently Liam just lost a film premiere or something.

IIRC, Mitchell's blackface earned her an admiring phone call from Miles Davis.

This is a hat I could go with.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/320862/

Well, I guess I'll add cheese to that.

A big dzięki to our friends in Poland: namely Professor Maciej Banach of the University of Łódź. For Banach and his plucky team of researchers have just completed a thrilling meta-analysis of 29 cohort studies that confirm what we’ve always chosen to believe: cheese can help you not die.

Thus spake the scientists: ‘cheese and yogurt were found to protect against both total mortality — death from any cause — and mortality from cerebrovascular causes.’

https://secretldn.com/cheese-protects-causes-death-says-science/

Climate change twofer.

If climate change was a simple, tame problem, everyone would agree on the solution. Because of the complexities of the climate system and its societal impacts, solutions may have surprising unintended consequences that generate new vulnerabilities. In short, the cure could be worse than the disease. Given these complexities, there is plenty of scope for reasonable and intelligent people to disagree.

https://judithcurry.com/2019/02/06/hearing-climate-change-the-impacts-and-the-need-to-act/

“Well, all Americans should want our President, whatever the disagreements are, just look at his own national security review. Every leader, whatever his party should be talking about climate change. You can have a debate about what to do about it. But that the President of the United States, at this moment in the world, did not mention climate change in even a sentence is, just frankly, a disgrace- any president, Democrat or Republican.”

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnns-john-king-trump-is-a-disgrace-for-omitting-climate-change-from-sotu-address

Why LA is the best. There are stunning beauties around every corner, and you don't get to choose which ones are heartbreaking beautiful and which ones are too dangerous for your journey.

That price increase, yikes

https://twitter.com/Kidfears99/status/1093142528096899072

A good piece from Walter Williams:

Ignoring Biology Doesn’t Make It Less Real

The Cursed Woman (1859), Francois Octave Tassaert

Obviously NSFW

https://twitter.com/capoIavoro/status/1092532802820718593

Virginia, man.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1093182582663991297

Moar Virginia, man.

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1093192807572033536

Optics: how do they work?

"After Living Abroad, Kids Struggle With American Overparenting"

http://reason.com/archives/2019/01/21/after-living-abroad-kids-strug

First paragraphs:

When Jean Phillipson's family returned to Fairfax, Virginia, after living in Bolivia, the main thing her 10-year-old son complained about was the bus ride home from school. "He wasn't allowed to have a pencil out," says the mom of three, "because it was considered unsafe."

Welcome back, kid, to the land of the outlandishly cautious...

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