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Ah, earthquakes. You may not be from earthquake country, so you might not have had to participate in earthquake drills at school, including an annual, day-long 'event' to help students and teachers prepare for The Big One. The pride of my young life was being selected to play an injured student during our 1988 day-long drill. I was assigned a broken arm, to my disappointment, (so pedestrian!) and when they later asked for volunteers to play dead, I of course threw my (good) arm up and then spent four boring hours lying still on a patch of grass, secretly wishing I still only had that broken arm and was allowed to talk to people.

I am 1000% in on you completing the TV Club Classic rewatch of LOST! Like a lot of people hanging out here (I think, I imagine), LOST is the show that made me care about TV as a medium and about TV criticism. I wouldn't be in this space if it weren't for (both sets of) those old AV Club reviews! Ahhh!!! I rewatched LOST with some friends in 2020-2021 during the peak of 'stay home and hang with your friends online' pandemic times, and got to revisit all kinds of old writings.

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As the horror of violence, rape, and murder of Jews in Israel by Hamas terrorists unfolded this past week I was astonished—and sickened—to hear the “whataboutism” and “bothsideism” response of many commentators and activists on the political Left that sounded eerily similar to the moral equivalency arguments I encountered when researching my book Denying History, on “who says the Holocaust never happened and why do they say it?” (co-authored with Alex Grobman).

Moral realism is the view that there are facts of the matter about which actions are right and which wrong, and about which things are good and which bad. (Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy) It is only a slight exaggeration to say that almost everyone believes in moral realism and almost everyone, at least in the circles I usually move in, denies believing in it. Everyone, with the possible exception of psychopaths, feels that some things — stealing from a friend who trusts you, for example — are wrong, not just illegal or imprudent but wrong.

Morel mushrooms, known as Morchella or true morels, are one of nature’s most exciting wild mushrooms to forage in spring. Morels possess wonderfully complex and delicious taste, commonly described as nutty, earthy, and slightly smoky. They are highly prized wild mushrooms, sought after for their unique flavor profile, texture, and rarity. Unlike many other types of mushrooms, morels are foraged instead of farmed. After cordyceps sinensis, truffles, and matsutake, they are one of the most expensive mushrooms in the world, their price going north of 400 euros per kg of dried and about 35-50 euros per kg of fresh mushroom.

Question: What have you done? Bill Willingham: I have purposely and irrevocably surrendered my Fables property to the public domain. Q: Care to elaborate a bit? What does that mean? Bill: As the sole owner and creator of the comic book property called Fables, published off and on over the past 20 years by various imprints of DC Comics, I alone had the right, or the power, or the authority (choose your term) to do this.

I am too young to have really “been there” for Advice Animals. Sifting the flour of deep memory, a recollection of some older kid showing me a Bad Luck Brian meme in the early 2010s pops out — and also some Confession Bear action in Middle School computer lab. But that’s it. I really only became aware of Advice Animals after they were already “old” and already “classic.” So I think that’s why I’m so fascinated by them: they come from a very different internet, and are one of our best sources for how the memes I love today developed and came of age.

We recently reported on a lawsuit filed in Washington State court against Linda J. Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW. Gottlieb is one of the foremost authorities in Reunification Therapy. Gottlieb and her proponents claim that her work and that of her organization, Turning Points for Families, P.C., are groundbreaking in remedying the effects of Parental Alienation on children and families engaged in protracted, contentious divorce matters. Last week, a new lawsuit was filed against Gottlieb and Turning Points.