Before the campaign, I used to practice yoga 3-4x/week, eat nutritiously, read and write for leisure. As soon as everything kicked up, that all went out the window. I went from doing yoga and making wild rice and salmon dinners…
“Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has come under fire of late, with some radio stations banning the holiday standard in light of the #MeToo movement and others defending and continuing to play it. Frank Loesser wrote the song in 1944, and its storyline of a male suitor who attempts to dissuade his object of affection from leaving for the chilly outdoors is being newly dissected.
Despite the controversy, or perhaps in part because of attention generated by it, a version of the song hits the top 10 of Billboard’s Digital Song Sales chart for the first time. Dean Martin’s take, recorded in 1959, is the chart’s Greatest Gainer, soaring from No. 31 to No. 10 on the Dec. 22-dated list, up 70 percent to 11,000 downloads sold in the week ending Dec. 13, according to Nielsen Music. A week earlier, it returned to the chart with a 257 percent blast to 7,000 sold.
Yeah, okay,
perhaps that’s a little insensitive to witches, but I won’t just take their word for it.
Let’s use the AGW-era scientific method. There are ways of telling whether they are a witch.
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This was the story’s conflict in about half of the old westerns that didn’t deal with Indians, robbers, or widows’ ranches bein’ repossessed.
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(NSF those with a nipple aversion or an aversion to the French)
C’monnn, woke American ladies, you’re not gonna let a bunch’a Frenchies show you up, are ya?
I mean, it’s all for the cause an’ stuff. (Uhh, not you, Helga)
(What? Yeah, French-police eye discipline is pretty good, at least while the camera’s are rollin’. Body-cam footage should be a big hit at their next stag party, though.)
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