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Originally published on the blog Fem 2.0
by Jennifer Pozner
In a promo video hyping Comedy Central's highest-rated show, host Daniel Tosh promised, "On season 3 of Tosh.0, we're raping everybody." The clip's copy read, "It's about to get pretty rapey up in here."
Apparently, that should have been printed as a buyer-beware on tickets for Tosh's gig at the Laugh Factory last weekend. If it had been, one woman in the audience might not have fled the building, stunned and frightened, after Tosh joked that it would be hilarious if she were gang-raped in the middle of his set.
By now most of the internet has heard (and exploded over) the young woman's account on Tumblr of what went down: she had a problem with his bit about "rape jokes always being funny… rape is hilarious," so she committed an act universally reviled by comedians: she heckled him. "Rape jokes are never funny," she shouted.
What happened next sparked a heated debate online and in the press about comedy and rape culture. Below, I deepen the conversation by discussing the mechanisms of humor, power and privilege with comedians and comedy writers W. Kamau Bell, CeCe Lederer, Zahra Noorbakshs, Sara Benincasa, Christina Gausas and Sofia Quintero.
To start us off, I give you my contribution to this debate: "Rape Joke Supercut: I Can't Believe You Clapped For That," a 90 second video by remix artist Elisa Kreisinger in collaboration with me (on behalf of Women In Media & News), Fem 2.0 and the Women's Media Center. I'm a media critic and a media activist, so when the story broke on Tuesday people started asking me what they could do to get Tosh fired. I told them they had every right to use their free speech to condemn the comic's gang rape threat, and they should to write about it, talk about it, and boycott him if they choose—but trying to get him canned specifically for that incident was the wrong response since Comedy Central isn't responsible for what Tosh says off camera at a stand-up gig. That said, the network is responsible for the content it airs, so I suggested that Eliza produce a supercut of every rape joke ever made on "Tosh.0" to present to Comedy Central and parent company Viacom with larger questions about programming standards, accountability, and corporate responsibility.
This is not that video. Since odious rape premises are so integral to their star's schtick, a supercut spanning 88 "Tosh.0" episodes over four seasons would be nearly as long as a feature film. Besides, such a video could easily be co-opted as "a highlights reel of misogyny." Instead, we focused on the comedy landscape at large in a way that directly complicates the heckler's complaint. Featuring Daniel Tosh along with some of the most popular comedians working today, Rape Joke Supercut illustrates the difference between the hilarity of jokes that undermine rape culture, and the cruelty of those that normalize rape and demean victims:
"I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you construct the joke," the great George Carlin said on his 1990 album "Parental Advisory." The line came during the climax of his classic bit about Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd, an image he conjured in a joke that goes on to completely dismantle the irrationality of victim-blaming (more on this later).
The Tosh incident has opened up needed space in the zeitgeist to dissect the mechanics of rape culture, a silver lining for those who love both comedy and justice. Unfortunately, media have gotten the story wrong in a number of significant ways. Dozens of TV, radio, newspaper, magazine and wire service headlines misreported that "Daniel Tosh Apologizes For Gang Rape Joke," a naïve reading at best of his tepid fauxpology. Strip away the double speak and "all the out of context misquotes aside, I'd like to offer a sincere apology" clearly translates to sorry if you were offended and BTW, you're a liar. His follow-up rationalization ("The point I was making before I was heckled is there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them #deadbabies") was a misdirection to shift focus from the line he crossed after he was interrupted. Quibbles about context aside, he never contradicted the substance of the incident. The only dispute of the young woman's story came in classic gaslighting form from the Laugh Factory's owner, who claimed that even though he "really didn't hear properly," he was still somehow sure that her account was inaccurate…and Tosh was "so sweet" to apologize. This too was also often uncritically reported, then regurgitated in victorious "bitch be lyin'!" sentiment from men and women across the interwebs.
Beyond the misleading headlines, news outlets, social media and comedy fans alike framed the Laugh Factory fallout as Feminists Verses Comedians, a multi-layered mischaracterization. Despite much proof to the contrary, the feminist response to Tosh has been misrepresented: we're not claiming that "rape jokes are never funny." Just as Carlin proved they can be decades ago, so did feminist writers Kate Harding ("15 Rape Jokes That Work") and Lindy West ("How To Make a Rape Joke") last week, with laugh-out-loud examples from Wanda Sykes, Tig Notaro, Louis CK, The Onion, and even Dane Cook, who has been known to brag on stage about "chainsaw fuck[ing]" a "disgusting whore's cunt." (As Harding noted, if Cook can get it right even once, that's proof that "no one else, anywhere, ever, has an excuse to screw this up"). "Make whatever jokes you want, but just make sure your rape jokes are actual JOKES, not douchey threats. Here's mine," comic Eliza Skinner tweeted, with a video of her explaining a crucial difference between two pop music acts: "a Black Eyed Peas song is about how great tonight's party is going to be, and a Ke$ha song is about everything leading up to her rape. 'Got into this van, van. I didn't know that man, man. I don't like to think, think, so I start to drink, drink. Where'd I get these scabs, scabs—what happened?"
Comedy itself has gotten a bad rap in the press, with the heaviest buzz centered on dude-bro comics and fans defending Tosh by tweeting endless permutations on "Fuck the bitch…she was asking for it" and "you should be raped like NOW!!!" to his critics. Far fewer column inches have been devoted to the many comedians who pushed back against the hackneyed use of rape for cheap laughs (Katie Halper compiles some of the funniest and most pointed examples at The Nation, including my favorite from comedian and FX comedy writer Hari Kondabolu: "A video of me getting heckled by a baby. If you'll notice, I didn't respond by asking for the baby to be killed: http://bit.ly/qbw9AR"
On MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" Sunday, stand-up comic and "Citizen Radio" co-host Jamie Kilstein blew a hole in the notion that comedians should be in lockstep support of Tosh. "Comics don't agree on anything. Everybody's talking about the 'comedy community,'" he said on MSNBC. "We don't even have health insurance. But suddenly we have to defend rape culture and it's like 'Comedians: assemble!' That's horrifying that this is the sword we want to die on."
So, why did comics who usually disagree about everything—even those known as creative, unusually inventive comedians—choose to circle the wagons around Tosh's gang rape invitation? The knee-jerk explanation has been that anything goes, no matter how vile, when responding to a heckler. But under the surface, the bro-code reaction speaks to uncomfortable fault lines around gender politics and unexamined power that comedians rarely like to acknowledge.
Before examining that underbelly, first thing's first: hecklers are the devil. They're rude. They're often oversensitive. They should do their due diligence: Tosh's objector said she knew nothing about the performers other than that the headliner was Dane Cook, who should have his own caveat emptor tattooed on his bicep, or at least screen-printed on an Ed Hardy shirt. A few minutes on Google would've tipped her off to skip it in the first place. "Be an educated consumer. People don't say I like 'Music.' They say I like country, or hip hop, or rock," says W. Kamau Bell, host of FX's "Totally Biased," which debuts Aug. 9. "Nobody ever accidentally buys a Miley Cyrus record and thinks its going to be The Clash. The Laugh Factory is the mainstream, Top 40 comedy club. Or you could go to Meltdown, the alternative, acoustic comedy club. There was a show somewhere in LA that night that she'd have loved. I'm not blaming her for what happened, not at all. I just wish she had seen a good comedy show." And if they're unimpressed they should leave rather than interrupt, because they have no idea where that performer's thought is going—and once they disrupt a comic's attempt at art, the rest of the audience may never get the chance to find out. In no other profession do observers think it's appropriate to start doing the professional's job: "no one comes into a biologist's lab and pees in his Petri dish," notes stand-up comic and former Colbert Report writer CeCe Lederer. "No one's forcing you to listen to bad jokes. Walk out. Trust me, that'll cut deeper anyway. The most brilliant heckle can't hurt a fraction as much as the absence of a laugh," she says. (Disclosure: Lederer plays "The Desperate Bachelorette" in "Reality Rehab," a satirical media literacy web series I produced.)
For all these reasons, hecklers should expect instant, pounding ridicule. Case study: Louis CK demolishing a chatty jerk in this Louie sketch on FX, calling her "the worst thing that ever happened in America" who "wouldn't even exist if your mom hadn't raped that homeless Chinese guy." (See? Offensive can be funny, when it's an absurd misdirect.)
But they should never expect vindictive, thinly veiled threats of sexual assault for daring not to keep their mouths shut. Yet that's exactly what Tosh hurled at this young woman by shooting back, "Wouldn't it be funny if that girl got raped by like, 5 guys right now? Like right now? What if a bunch of guys just raped her…"
The thing is, gang rape happens every day, at homecoming dances and parties and military barracks. It is happening somewhere — like right now — as you read this. And in a coincidence that has gone unnoticed, on the very same day the Tumblr story blew up, Canadian police charged the owner of the Big League Comedy Club with sexual assault that allegedly took place inside the Ontario club. Yes, Daniel, rapes even happen at comedy clubs—so maybe you can understand why the woman and her friend high-tailed it out of the Laugh Factory when you started with the chuckle-chuckle about how she should be brutalized by your audience (who reportedly "guffawed in response") as payback for her crime of objecting to your routine.
Feminist outrage this week has been specific to that attack, not to whatever led up to the heckle. Mockery of hecklers is fair game, just like every conceivable topic is fair game for comedians. The problem is that Tosh, more than this audience member, broke the rules of comedy. He wasn't creative, or clever, or cutting. He wasn't even amusingly crude, a la Kathy Griffin's standard-issue retort, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth." Instead, he fell down on the job by reacting with rage rather than humor. His comeback was a declarative statement about an individual, not a setup with a payoff. As the comic in control of the room, he invited the audience to become complicit in a verbal assault—and potentially a physical one. There was no actual joke there, just an angry little reminder that women who step out of line can be shut up in the most violent, sadistic of ways. Not that they necessarily will be, but that they could be—like, right now.
Oh, but Jenn, you're not a comedian! Who are you to say what qualifies as a joke?
OK, then, take it from Colbert's former writer Lederer: "He's wasn't doing the work. Saying 'Guys in the audience, rape this woman,' that's not a joke. That's just lazy. A joke is hard. It has structure. It should be trying to go for something." The low-hanging fruit of sexism is easier, and more vacuous. "You're always going to get a giggle from someone if you say something wildly inappropriate. Work a little harder, man. #deadbabies? That was a meme that ended like six years ago. It wasn't ever his own material!" she says, exasperation in her voice.
Kids playing The Dozens are funnier than Tosh was after being heckled. It's the mark of a weak artist if you have to resort to bullying because you can't think of a witty comeback. Letting hostility cloud his ability to riff, he committed one of the cardinal sins of the dark, poorly ventilated basements and back rooms of comedy clubs: he was boring. Comedy is a subjective art form, and even the greats die on stage once in a while. Still, whenever a stand-up takes the mic, the goal is always to win over every member of the audience. As writer and performer Sofia Quintero told me, the incident reveals as much about Tosh's talent as it does about rape culture. Tosh "had to call in the cavalry of hypermasculinity to regulate a woman for having the audacity to publicly suggest that maybe he's not living up to his end of the audience-performer contract," Quintero says. "If one woman heckler can get you that shook, son, maybe this game isn't for you."
In Daniel Tosh's world, rape is a shortcut to a punchline he's too lazy to make. In the real world, rape is violent, it's painful, and it's among the worst physical and psychological attacks that anyone can endure, whether the perpetrator is one acquaintance or a group of soldiers sexually torturing women as a weapon of war. It happens every two minutes in America. It is, in its own way, a form of terrorism. Yet "for most male comics," recovered-rape-joke-teller Johnny Marbles wrote, rape is "basically abstract, something that only happens in your darker police procedurals and never to real people… Never to people you know. Never to audience members, one in four of the women in the room, for whom the idea isn't quite so absurd."
That's at the heart of so many male comics' confusion and anger about feminists insisting that Tosh's gang-rape slap-down was, without question, a threat. Comedian Zahra Noorbakshs, whose solo show All Atheists Are Muslim sold out during the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June, thinks their confusion is misplaced. "It's the position of privilege. As a guy he can stand on the stage and laugh at the idea of this woman being raped because he's not the one who has to watch out behind him when he leaves the club. It puts the woman in a really creepy-ass position where she has to worry about whether someone will follow her home, because sick people are out there and maybe one of them will take him seriously. He had the authority in the room. That's how he used it?"
Along with white privilege, male privilege is a well-worn concept to progressive activists and academics, though there's still a lot of resistance even among liberal men and white people to the idea that unearned social, political and economic benefits are bestowed on those at or near the top of gender and race hierarchies and denied to others. These are institutional biases that exist regardless of individuals' intentions, motives or accomplishments. For comedians like Richard Pryor, Roseanne Barr, Margaret Cho and Janeane Garofalo, interrogating these systems through humor is essential to their art. But in general, the stand-up world—historically (and still largely) dominated by white men—has been very loathe to acknowledge such systems of power around gender and race, no less build smart material around these issues. After all, we're still in a climate where comedians, journalists and media outlets routinely insist that women just aren't funny. And there's an additional sort of privilege at play in the world of comedy: the control that comes with the microphone. Since comedy is so often the art of the outsider, and always requires vulnerability on the part of performers, it may be especially difficult for comedians to acknowledge the power dynamic implicit in their jobs. Whether in enormous auditoriums or dingy, brick-walled cellars, he (or she) who has the mic is in charge of reality and perception at a comedy show, at least for the duration of their set. It's their voice that matters, their perspectives that shape the audience's ideas and emotions. They rule the room. And when that privilege bumps up against the ugly side of unexamined male privilege, you get Tosh's gang rape crack, instantly recognizable as a threat by those without the luxury of never having to think about rape as anything more than an amusing premise.
When you're a celebrity, whether you're a comedian or a politician, your words take on added significance. "When Sarah Palin puts out a map that says 'we've got you in our crosshairs' and then Congresswoman Gabby Giffords gets shot, in the head, it's not like anyone thought Palin really wanted someone to try to assassinate her. But it shows that what you say can have real consequences," says Lederer. "When you joke about a concept, that's one thing. But when you take it out of the abstract, when you say, 'It would be funny if that girl, the one right there in the blue shirt with the bangs, got gang raped right now,' it could be misconstrued as a call to action. Whether you mean it doesn't matter."
This is particularly true in Tosh's case. It's safe to assume he didn't actually want five men in his audience to show him how hilarious it would be if they took him up on his gang-bang challenge. Yet even with that benefit of the doubt it wouldn't have been completely unpredictable if one or more of them had taken him up on his suggestion. This is hardly hyperbole: Tosh enjoys a weekly cause-and-effect relationship with his fans. On "Tosh.0" he regularly encourages his millions of young male viewers to film themselves doing all manner of stupid, silly, embarrassing things – and they dutifully upload the results on YouTube in the hope that he'll play their clips on air. Back in April, for example, "Tosh.0" sparked what comedy site Splitsider called a "disgusting, awful movement" of men posting "vaguely rapey" videos after the host announced that "I need you to film yourselves lightly touching women's stomachs while they're sitting down." The body-shaming goal was malicious enough ("Make sure she's aware that you are in fact feeling a roll"), but his warning could have come off of a black-market bottle of Roofies: "But be careful because they like to pretend that they don't love it." One kid even did this to his English teacher, who was so upset she threatened to have him suspended—so he harassed his language teacher instead, and the proof lives on Comedy Central's website.
Tosh might as well have said he had that heckler in his crosshairs.
Molly Ivins, a bawdy Texan feminist journalist with a wicked sense of humor and a take-no-prisoners attitude toward corruption, chose her targets carefully. Satire, she said, is "the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel—it's vulgar."
That's what so galls "Citizen Radio's" Jamie Kilstein about Tosh. (Kilstein knows a little something about satire: after the National Review's Jonah Goldberg talked about the need to figuratively or literally beat the stupid out of America's youth, he publicly challenged him to a fight for charity.) On MSNBC, he was just one Southern accent away from channeling Ivins. "Comedy is a subversive art… Who's sitting in an audience going 'You know who's had it too good for too long? Rape victims. I really wish someone would get on stage and give them a piece of it,'" he asked. "Why aren't we going after the guy doing the raping? Why aren't we going after… the governments with their sexist policies and their rape-enabling culture, or the police who just ignore rape case after rape case after rape case? There are so many big targets to go after."
Tosh's gang rape threat was a double violation, degrading not only the woman he harassed but the idea of what comedy is for. "Here you've got the powerful one, the potential oppressor, joking in a fashion that simply reaffirms his power," says writer, radio host and comedy Jill-of-all-trades Sara Benincasa. "Also, he just comes off like an asshole when he does this kind of shit."
And he does it all the time. Bottom-feeder rape jokes have been a foundation of Tosh's act on and off TV, for years. His targets are virtually always rape victims, nearly never rapists or the conditions that create and shield them. On his show, he told Comedy Central viewers to "book your flights today" because the age of consent is 12 in Mexico; filmed a group of men racing out of the room after hearing that an "Asian schoolgirl! No English! Unconscious!" is nearby; advised a rapist to protect himself from STDs after kidnapping a slut ("Wear a rubber, she gets around, a lot"); and mocked "prison rape, which involves criminals so it doesn't really count." In a stand-up act, he joked about getting his sister raped and hearing her say, "This is gonna really hurt!" Ohmigawd, lolz, amiright?
Most disturbing, "Tosh.0" aired what appeared to be—and what he said was—a YouTube video of a teen boy being sexually assaulted with a dildo by a friend, periodically pausing the video to let the host offer smirking commentary including, "And now you know what prison is like," "I wonder if that's how he thought he'd lose his virginity?" and "The line between prank and rape is pretty blurry right now," with an audience laugh track for punctuation. The original assault video has been removed by YouTube, but Tosh's "your forced anal penetration, now with extra laughs!" version remains on Comedy Central's website with the title, "Video Breakdown: Dildo Fight." Perhaps when you mock fictional rape as consistently and as casually as Tosh has throughout his career, seeing a teenager actually being assaulted in real life is just more fodder for your snarky ha-has.
Perhaps the same is true for those of us who watch. I've seen a shift in the kind of material comedy audiences respond to in the NY comedy scene over the last thirteen years.
I love comedy the way many people love music or sports. It's the thing I've been drawn to since I was a kid. In the late '80s, when other teens were getting fake IDs to sneak into bars, I got mine to get into comedy clubs that didn't allow minors. I hardly cared about the booze—I just wanted to soak up all the outrageous, filthy, hilarious stand-up I could get. Now, while my friends see their favorite bands in concerts, I see improv marathons at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. When the UCB opened in New York in 1999 and for several years after, I could go to any show, whether I knew the performers or not, and be relatively sure I'd have a good time. Gold star house teams like "The Swarm" guaranteed brilliance; others ranged from side-splitting to "meh" to, on a rare bad night, cringe-worthy. But I always knew I'd laugh, and I never left pissed off. Some time around the middle of the decade that began to change. The rape jokes started happening. And then they started happening more. Ultimately it got to a point where 90% of unknown improv teams would be do at least one or two rape or domestic violence jokes, and some of the groups that used to strive for higher-level material started defaulting to it, too. My friends and I had been seeing UCB shows at least a few times a month for years, often walking in without knowing anything about the group—that discovery was part of the fun. Eventually I stopped being able to go to UCB shows by groups I don't know. It makes it harder to discover new talent, and I'm frustratingly aware that I'm probably missing out on some shows I'd really enjoy. Still, I can't take a chance on unvetted improv or stand-up anymore, because I've been burned by way too many routines like the one that upset Tosh's heckler.
I go to see live comedy because I enjoy it. I also go because I deal with dark topics in my work as a writer and activist (violence, misogyny, racism, war, poverty) and comedy is my escape valve, a way to decompress and fill my down time with laughter. What I don't need is to suddenly be jolted out of that laughter by hearing douchey dudes treat the worst physical and psychological pain and trauma women can endure as if it's an amusing sport. I don't need internal monologues like this: Bwahahaha, this is so funny! Ha! Ha! H—holy hell, WTF? Ouch. Wait…all these dudes are laughing a little too hard at this gory rape imagery, and they're drunk on $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon, and I'm one of only a few women in this room. And I have to walk home alone after the show. It's tedious, maddening, and takes me out of the moment. Now, because of the misogynistic rape jokes, I'm not only not laughing—I'm pissed and, on rare occasions, scared. The exact opposite reaction you want when you seek out live comedy. And I'm not even a sexual assault survivor, for whom this kind of material could trigger painful memories.
"As a society, when we reach a place where the majority is that desensitized to violence and abuse, and utter public disrespect against women, we're in trouble," says veteran UCB improviser and actress Christina Gausas. She was referencing Tosh's gang rape joke, but her sentiment could easily apply to the changes I've seen in the NYC comedy scene and, by proxy, late night comedy shows, sketch shows and sitcoms on broadcast and cable networks.
So, how did we get here?
"There's always waves of comedy. Right now we're in a rape comedy wave," W. Kamau Bell told me. "I certainly wouldn't go on stage with rape jokes right now because I'd be automatically connected to all these other comics." Ironically, Bell used to tell one of my favorite jokes about rape culture. Back when President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize just for showing up, he did a bit about others who deserved it more. "Bob Marley never won a Nobel Peace Prize… Who has done more to chill motherfuckers out than Bob Marley? Just for the work he's done for white frat boys alone, you know what I mean? When you put on Bob Marley's "Legend" at a frat party, date rape goes down like 12%."
So, what's behind the rise of comedy's "rape wave?" Bell points to a reflexive desire of some comics to feel dangerous, edgy, without much concern for their targets, or for the context or history of the words and concepts they're using. "There was a point at which comedy was all about ironic racism. There's these waves of inappropriateness, and people get stuck. Like, 'Oh, you're saying 'nigger' but you're using it ironically? Oh, um, haaa. Ha?' But now rape is the new nigger, to put it bluntly," Bell says. "I think it's like the 'Nigger/Cunt/Hitler/Holocaust/Rape" brand of comedy. There's a style of comics who use the most painful things that happen in modern society, but mostly you're just using the words without a larger point. You're not getting laughs in ways that make the victims of those words feel better." Bell, like many others, " got into comedy because we like playing with the dangerous toys of language. But the brave thing isn't just using the buzzwords. I say this as a person who doesn't want anything to be off limits in comedy—I just want it to be done well."
According to Bell, the way to do it well it to punch up at the powerful. Tosh isn't unique in doing racist, sexist and homophobic jokes without a larger purpose, "because a lot of comics love to transgress moral lines, comfort zones. I enjoy doing that too. It's just that me and Nato, Janine, Hari," Bell says, referring to "Totally Biased" staff writers Nato Green, Janine Brito and Hari Kondabolu, "we love to transgress the comfort zones of the powerful. We're trying to codify a new movement of comedy – we call it 'The New Sincerity.' Comics who can stand behind the jokes we make. If you say you were offended, no problem. That's what I meant, and if it offended you? Mission accomplished."
Which brings me back to George Carlin, whose rape joke was a masterclass in how to use humor in a surgical strike against sexism and abuse:
[People] say, "You can't joke about rape. Rape's not funny." I say, "Fuck you, I think it's hilarious." How do you like that? I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See? Hey, why do you think they call him Porky, eh? I know what're gonna say, "Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky. Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard-on. He got horny. He lost control. He went out of his mind. A lot of men talk like that. A lot of men think that way. They think it's the woman's fault. They like to blame the rape on the woman. Say, "Hey, she had it coming, she was wearing a short skirt.' These guys think women ought to go to prison for being cock-teasers. Don't seem fair to me. Don't seem right. But you can joke about it. I believe you can joke about anything. It all depends on how you construct the joke. What the exaggeration is. What the exaggeration is."
This isn't a "rape joke," it's a "rape culture joke." He lays bare the mechanisms of violence against women. You can't come away from it without laughing—or without understanding how ludicrous it is to shame and blame victims for the crimes against them. With the misogyny and viciousness of rapists as his target, Carlin dismantles the belief systems that shield them from accountability. And he left comedians everywhere not only a reminder to go for the higher laugh, to construct every joke in a way that leads us to think, to challenge, to grow – he also left a template to follow. Ever the pro, Carlin had Porky raping Elmer, not the other way around. In the cartoons, Elmer had the gun—Elmer had the power. Porky overtaking the hunter? Funny. Fudd fucking the pig? It may still have gotten a laugh, but it wouldn't have served the same symbolic purpose. And that, as playwright Stephen Gracia says, is the difference between a comic genius and "a hack with a show about watching stupid shit on the Internet."
As I said in the press release that accompanies our Rape Joke Supercut video, humor can be used to expose injustice, as George Carlin liked to do, or to reinforce it, as Tosh did by abusively targeting a female audience member. All those comedians rushing to defend Tosh's "hilarious" gang rape comeback, all those "ha ha ha, bitch asked for it" fan tweets, give us a portrait of unexamined privilege colliding with a lack of empathy. I wonder if the "rape wave's" increasing prevalence in comedy and pop culture in recent years is contributing to our collective empathy deficit, and poisoning the well against victims.
"You can't laugh at something so underdeveloped no matter what kind of sense of humor you have — unless of course, it's really how you feel," comedian Meghan O'Keefe wrote. Unless you "think the act of physically hurting and sexually dominating a woman against her will is funny."
As Carlin said, "Don't seem fair to me. Don't seem right."
Jennifer L. Pozner is a media critic, public speaker, and the author of Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV. She is producer and co-writer of the satirical web series, "Reality Rehab with Dr. Jenn." Pozner is founder and executive director of Women in Media & News, a media analysis, education, and advocacy group, editor of the group blog WIMN's Voices, and an adviser for the OWN documentary "Miss Representation." She's still single because Stephen Colbert isn't.


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I regret that I do not get to writing my blog post until the end of the day when my mind is mush…but I will try and recount another wonderful day at Artcroft.
This morning, I helped Robert sure up the roof for the chicken coop. The weather is supposed to take a turn for the worse, so it was good we were able to tighten it up.
I made 8 small oil pastel paintings. I am trying to explore a theme with slight variations. Some are good, some are bad and some are great, I will make large oil paintings out of the best small paintings. Feel free to comment on what you think is good, bad and ugly…it will help me with the decision making!
me crosseyed from painting too much!
Late in the afternoon while preparing dinner, Maureen commented on the beautiful light outside. I decided to take a walk with my camera and try to capture some of that light.
I am having a great time out here. I can't express the good feeling that comes with a stay at Artcroft. Robert and Maureen are experts at creating a beautiful environment for creative thinking.

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New Research Shows Resveratrol May Slow Alzheimer's
A nationwide clinical trial has found that high doses of resveratrol stabilizes a biomarker that declines as Alzheimer's disease progresses.
Resveratrol is a naturally occurring compound found in foods such as red grapes, raspberries, dark chocolate, and some red wines.
The results are "very interesting," according to the study's principal investigator, R. Scott Turner, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Memory Disorders Program at Georgetown University Medical Center.
But Turner cautions that the findings cannot be used to recommend resveratrol — at least not yet.
"This is a single, small study with findings that call for further research to interpret properly," he noted.
The clinical trial was a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind study with 119 patients with mild to moderate dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.
An "investigational new drug" application was required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to test the pure synthetic pharmaceutical-grade resveratrol in the study. It is not available commercially in this form, the researchers noted.
The highest dose of resveratrol tested was one gram by mouth twice daily, which is equivalent to the amount found in about 1,000 bottles of red wine.
One of the participants in the study was John Bozza, 80. Five years ago, his wife, Diana, began noticing "something wasn't quite right." He was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, but only a year later, his condition progressed to mild Alzheimer's.
Diana, whose twin sister died from the same disease, says there are multiple reasons she and John decided to participate in the resveratrol study, and they now know he was assigned to take the active drug.
"I definitely want the medical community to find a cure," she said. "And of course I thought there's always a chance that John could have been helped, and who knows, maybe he was."
Patients, like John, who were treated with increasing doses of resveratrol over 12 months showed little or no change in amyloid-beta40 (Abeta40) levels in their blood and cerebrospinal fluid, according to the study's findings.
In contrast, those taking a placebo had a decrease in the levels of Abeta40 compared with their levels at the beginning of the study.
"A decrease in Abeta40 is seen as dementia worsens and Alzheimer's disease progresses," Turner said. "Still, we can't conclude from this study that the effects of resveratrol treatment are beneficial. It does appear that resveratrol was able to penetrate the blood brain barrier, which is an important observation. Resveratrol was measured in both blood and cerebrospinal fluid."
According to Turner, the researchers studied resveratrol because it activates proteins called sirtuins, the same proteins activated by caloric restriction.
The biggest risk factor for developing Alzheimer's is aging, and studies with animals found that most age-related diseases — including Alzheimer's — can be prevented or delayed by long-term caloric restriction. That means consuming two-thirds the normal caloric intake, the researchers explained.
According to Turner, the study also found that resveratrol was safe and well-tolerated. The most common side effects experienced were gastrointestinal-related, including nausea and diarrhea. Patients taking resveratrol also experienced weight loss while those on the placebo gained weight, he reported.
However, there was one outcome that was particularly confounding, according to Turner. The researchers obtained brain MRI scans on participants before and after the study, and found that resveratrol-treated patients lost more brain volume than the placebo-treated group.
"We're not sure how to interpret this finding," he said. "A similar decrease in brain volume was found with some anti-amyloid immunotherapy trials."
A working hypothesis is that the treatments may reduce inflammation (or brain swelling) found with Alzheimer's, he said.
Further studies, including analysis of frozen blood and cerebrospinal fluid taken from patients, are underway to test possible drug mechanisms.
"Given safety and positive trends toward effectiveness in this phase two study, a larger phase three study is warranted to test whether resveratrol is effective for individuals with Alzheimer's or at risk for Alzheimer's," Turner said.
The study, supported by a grant from the National Institute on Aging, was published in Neurology.
Source: Georgetown University Medical Center
Wood, J. (2018). New Research Shows Resveratrol May Slow Alzheimer's. Psych Central. Retrieved on September 30, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2015/09/13/new-research-shows-resveratrol-may-slow-alzheimers-progression/92141.html
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Jwan Yosef Biography and Wiki: Jwan Yosef was born on March 17, 1984 in Ras al-Ayn to a Syrian Kurdish father and an Armenian Christian mother. He moved to Sweden with his family, where he studied painting in Pernby School of Painting. Jwan Yosef attended Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm from where he completed his graduation and earned BA degree in Fine Arts in 2009. He completed his MA degree in Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins, London.
Jwan Yosef has taken part in a number of art fairs and group exhibitions. In 2013, he held two solo exhibitions titled Painting about "Sex, Flesh and Violence, lol" at the DIVUS Gallery, and "High Notes" at the Galleri Anna Thulin, Stockholm. In 2013, he also participated in the Threadneedle Prize exhibition and the BEERS Contemporary Award for Emerging Art.
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5 Great Scrap Fabric Ideas
As you can imagine I generate quite a bit of scrappy bits of fabric. Here are 5 great ideas for your scrap fabric:
I love these fabric scrap thumbtacks, they really would use up all those tiny bits of fabric. Thanks Jessica for the tutorial.
Handmade notelets, simply cut out little triangular shapes, glue stick them down and sew a line across the top! This week, as part of my zero waste week efforts I have made a few, ready to include in any christmas sales parcels:)
Brighten up your home this fall with a fabric scrap wreath – would use up loads of scraps!!
How about some fabric tape to brighten up any parcel? or to make cards with?
But I have to admit I think I have saved the best to last! My favorite idea is this gorgeous fabric twine – I had a go at making my own. It does take time, and slightly longer pieces of scrap than the others but I think this would add a unique touch to wrapping parcels, or if you are good at crochet perhaps you could crochet with it?
If all else fails use your fabric scraps as stuffing for pincushions, or save it and take it to your local charity shop or recycling centre for rag collection.
I would love to know what you do with your fabric scraps, I have started a pinterest board to collect ideas:)
As usual I am hopping by Handmade Harbour to see what everyone else's week has been like,
23 responses to "5 Great Scrap Fabric Ideas"
- Una says:
I have been known to make hair scrunchies from fabric scraps.
- Amylouise5 says:
That's a great idea, and if the scraps are too small you could patchwork them together:)
- Suze Bain says:
Fabulous ideas. I love the stitched bunting. xx
- Jen says:
Fantastic ideas! I will have to have a go at the twine I think, I have so many little bits I just don't have the heart to get rid of! Thanks xx
- Patchwork Fairy says:
I love the fabric twine idea – I really will try this one. I have a pink plastic bucket underneath my sewing table and throw all mine in there. I am sometimes transfixed by the beauty of the colour combinations when I grab a handful of these scraps and one of my ongoing projects is to find a way to use these artistically!
- Free Spirit Designs says:
Oooh i love the fabric tape! All the ideas are great though. I must start using up some of my scraps as they are building up…! x
- Amylouise5 says:
I imagine you have as many scraps as me!
- threadsnshreds says:
I love fabric wreaths, such a great look and texture. The fabric twine looks amazing though I can imagine it must be fiddly to make x
- Amylouise5 says:
The wreath could be very time consuming too, although maybe less fiddly:)
- Josie says:
Thanks for a fantastic post Vicky, my sewing room is full of tiny pieces of fabric I can't seem to bring myself to bin. I shall have to have a go at some of these ideas x
- Amylouise5 says:
Glad you found it inspiring:)
- Julie says:
I can't bear to throw even tiny pieces of beautiful fabric away (which does not make for a tidy house I can tell you!) What a great collection of ideas, thanks.
(love that twine too)
- Lucy Blossom says:
Some great ideas, I particularly like the fabric tape, so simple but very effective.
- Amylouise5 says:
I'm not sure I could trim the fabric neatly enough to make the tape….!
- Lilly's Mom says:
It was so enjoyable reading your blog post. I have a Christmas wreath made from fabric scraps that my child made for me years ago. Have a wonderful week.
- Amylouise5 says:
What a lovely item to have and to treasure:)
- Rachelle Strauss says:
I love the cards – I think even I could manage to create one of those. Thanks for the inspiration!
- jill goldberg says:
Great ideas, I've just swept out loads of fairly large size scraps and it kills me!!! i'm following your pinterest board, too 🙂
- Amylouise5 says:
Thanks Jill – hoping to expand the Pinterest board with more ideas:)
- Wendy says:
What a fabulous post Vicky! I adore the idea of the bunting cards and WOW to the fabric twine – I can see loads of uses for this one in knitting, crochet and embroidery too.
- Amylouise5 says:
Thanks Wendy – not sure if I have the patience to make enough twine to knit or crochet with!!
- Gwen Gyldenege says:
Wow, the fabric twine is amazing. But being a spinner, I'm not sure I would consider attempting it by hand. Yeowtch! It's really, really beautiful as a twine and would be an amazing trim to add to a garment, though. When I made art yarns, it was fun to toss in fabric scraps to hang out among the beehives and coils. Nice post full of fun ideas. I like the fabric tape too. I've a drawer that's overflowing with scraps. I also saw someone else make pictures with their scraps by putting spray adhesive or a fusible on the back, then placing and topstitching. Beautiful pillows.
- Amylouise5 says:
I hadn't thought of adding the twine to a garment:) – applique would be a lovely way of using scraps:)
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'Frozen 2': The Ultimate Dream
Oh, Frozen — the animated movie musical that just completely defies all laws of nature, soaring past the summer, even though according to science, it should have probably melted by now. But nope! The hope of Frozen 2 keeps this movie alive, even if Frozen 2 is definitely not a thing that is happening in the near future. It's just a dream.
But since Frozen 2 is just that, a dream — a surreal, chimerical, highly fanciful little bean of thought — then why don't we fantasize about it and make it the ultimate dream? Perhaps we may even wind up with Frozen 2 as the mash-up to end all mash-ups. If Disney won't produce Frozen 2, then this should be the sort of movie that would only come from the mind of the twisted, pop-culture obsessed Internet.
Ladies and gentlemen, here are some very, very, very silly pitches for Frozen 2, pooling together everything that you love. Because if there's one thing that the Internet taught me, it's this: mash up everything. And if there's one thing that Disney has taught me, it's this: if you're going to dream, DREAM HARD. A dream is a wish your heart makes, is it not? Then let your heart run rampant, my friends, and see what comes up, even if the results seem like are the product of a really bad acid trip. It's only faithful to the House of Mouse.
A Heartthrob For Elsa On A Horseback
Anna has Kristoff, so it only makes sense for Elsa to get a dude, too. Yes, Frozen made the very feminist and awesome point that you don't need a man, but if you're going to have a love interest, let him be on horseback. And let him be Tom Hiddleston, while you're at it.
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Anna, Kristoff, Elsa, and Hiddleston on Horseback sojourn through the newly un-frozen Arendelle. However, they've got one major problem. Now that they've de-thawed Arendelle, and Elsa is a normal person who can touch things without turning them into ice, it's December 20, so...
Winter Is Coming
Let's face it. Frozen and Game of Thrones were bound to meet. Enter the most chiseled, beautiful, best-coiffed, snowy man of all...
Jon Snow
Who knows nothing, except for the fact that he's really into CGI ladies right now. In fact, he's pretty darn into Elsa. Unfortunately, Hiddleston on Horseback is not taking this too well, so now we must deal with a duel between Jon Snow and Hiddleston, which is not pretty. Olaf can make all the quips he wants, but it ain't gonna save one of these two dudes from diving off the deep end. Disney gets dark and depressing, and one of the two dies (don't worry, no spoilers for this fictional plot), so the other has to go to jail, because...
Frozen Is The New Black
.... Everyone is then forced to meet the cast of the popular Netflix series, who are currently in the process of dealing with a parallel Netflix universe in which Piper gets shipped off to a D.C. prison and finds Lucas from House of Cards circa Season 2 Episode 5. The two go to read some news, but instead of finding one of Larry's hate-inducing articles or anything political, all they see is tabloid fodder...
About These Two
But Anna and Elsa, back in their parallel universe, don't mind this at all since they're total Maks and Meryl 'shippers. But then they pause for thought, as people in dramas often do. The sisters realize they're caught up in some silly tabloid hoopla and have been binge watching way too much Netflix and HBO, so they ditch their dudes (including the one in jail), throw away their Apple TVs, and get on with their lives because they don't need anybody but each other. Sisters be doin' it for themselves.
And then they sing a power ballad that's stuck in your head for the next year or so.
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This all started about a week ago, when Treehugger and the New York Times began reporting that
As of Jan. 1, Pennsylvania is banning labels on milk and dairy products that say it comes from cows that haven't been treated with artificial bovine growth hormone, which is sometimes known as rBGH or rBST. State officials say the labels are confusing and impossible to verify.
The government maintains that artificial bovine growth hormones are safe, even though they're illegal in many other countries, critics question their safety, and many American consumers won't buy milk treated with it.
So instead of exercising the precautionary principle Monsanto has instead spent more than a decade lobbying to get the labels removed. And now Pennsylvania agriculture secretary has agreed, arguing that the labels confuse consumers. "It seems to imply there is a safe, nonsafe dimension."
Winner: Monsanto.
Loser: the people of Pennsylvania
A few days later, the Federal Reserve changed its reporting policies, publishing economic forecasts four times of year instead of only twice, in order to "take some of the mystery out of its decision-making, disclosing far more information about its economic forecasts — and, implicitly, about its objectives for growth and inflation."
Now, I'm not an economist (but I've dozed through economics lectures), but how can this not be a good thing? Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a speech to the Cato Institute outlining the history of the decision, which is pretty interesting.
An excerpt:
Montagu Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England from 1921 to 1944, reputedly took as his personal motto, "Never explain, never excuse." Norman's aphorism exemplified how he and many of his contemporaries viewed the making of monetary policy–as an arcane and esoteric art, best practiced out of public view. Many central bankers of Norman's time (and, indeed, well into the postwar period) believed that a certain mystique attached to their activities and that allowing the public a glimpse of the inner workings would only usurp the prerogatives of insiders and reduce, if not grievously damage, the effectiveness of policy.
Norman's perspective on central banking now seems decidedly quaint.
But before you expect to see enlightened beings at the Fed, it's worth listening to Alan Blinder (an irono-nym, that), a former vice-chairman there.
"If you are a big believer in transparency, which I am, it's incremental," Mr. Blinder said. "If I had my druthers, the Fed would be giving out a forecast eight times a year."
Then again, this may be a tempest in a money temple, especially if Steven Levitt is correct that economists are lousy forecasters.


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Outback Steakhouse taught Chrissy Teigen to make a Bloomin' Onion, but it was so intense that SHE FELL ASLEEP
As if we didn't have enough reasons to be jealous of her, Outback Steakhouse flew out a chef to teach Chrissy Teigen how to make a Bloomin' Onion. As in Outback's infamous Bloomin' Onion. As we all know, Bloomin' Onions are basically the perfect appetizer. Chrissy Teigen also shares this opinion (read: fact) and so recently tweeted looking for tips as to how to make this perfect snack for herself.
But since she's Chrissy Teigen, and not a peasant like us, Outback Steakhouse actually responded.
Chrissy and Outback coordinated via DMs, but then Outback flew out some chefs to teach her how to make the bloomin' onion in the comfort of her own home. LITERALLY the dream.
Unfortunately, making a Bloomin' Onion turned out to be too taxing for Chrissy. We don't know whether to laugh or cry on her behalf for all the deliciously perfectly crisp onion she missed out on.
Luckily, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend's marriage continues to be perfect and John Legend learned how to make the bloomin' onion.
Honestly, having your own personal Bloomin' Onion chef (who also happens to be John Legend, nbd) might be better than knowing how to make it yourself, anyway…But if nothing else, we're happy to see that Chrissy and the Outback's love affair was totally real, and that Outback proved their dedication by helping her out with this crucial skill.


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During his trip to the Rio Grande Valley, President Donald Trump is expected to make a stop at Anzalduas Park in Mission, according to the Hidalgo County Pct. 3 office.
Secret Service has been on site since Monday in preparation for his visit on Thursday. The park will be closed that day.
Attempts to reach officials at the park were unsuccessful.
The park sits along the Rio Grande in the shadow of the Anzalduas International Bridge and is frequently patrolled by Border Patrol agents attempting to intercept those crossing into the country illegally.
The story has been updated to include additional information about the park.


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Emergency Exit
Definition - What does Emergency Exit mean?
An emergency exit is an exit that is used to provide a safe means of escape from a structure or area in the event of an emergency, such as a fire.
The exit must be in an easily accessible, unobstructed, and permanent location.
Safeopedia explains Emergency Exit
Emergency exits must open into locations that are either immediately safe or that provide access to a safe area. A designated main doorway can be used as an emergency exit if it meets certain safety standards such as the ability to be easily opened from the inside. However, emergency exits are often reserved exits that may only be used in the case of an emergency. Fire escape exits, which consist of ladders or stairwells mounted to the outside of a building, are a special type of emergency exit.
Modern building codes require buildings to have a specific number of emergency exits, with the number of required exits varying depending on the size of the building and the potential number of individuals who may need to use the exit. Other non-building workplaces, such as airplanes, are also required by law to have emergency exits. Typically, emergency exits must be indicated by specific forms of signage that indicate the direction or presence of an emergency exit.
In order for emergency exits to remain compliant with safety standards, they must be maintained to ensure they continue to function as an exit and are unobstructed by material that may limit access or pose a tripping hazard. Since emergency exits must provide access to a safe area, if an exit opens into an enclosed interior stairwell, that stairwell must offer emergency lighting so that workers can move through it safely. Because emergency exits are commonly used to provide relief from fire, many emergency exits are built with fire doors that resist the spread of fire through the exit.
In the United States, standards for emergency exits are described by the National Fire Protection Association's Standard 101, also called the Life Safety Code.
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Progressive taxation is a legislative policy that takes a greater percentage of a taxpayer's income when they earn more money. The United States currently uses a progressive tax system when assigning tax brackets and each bracket is adjusted to reflect changes due to inflation.
In the 2017 tax cycle, those who earned up to $9,325 of taxable income were taxed at a rate of 10%. Those who earned more than $418,400 were taxed at a rate of 39.6%. Between these two levels are 5 additional income brackets.
Each taxpayer pays the amount of taxation for the income in that bracket. For the taxpayer earning $418,400 or more, the first $9,325 of their taxable income would be taxed at 10%. Then the next portion of their income, up to $37,950, would be taxed at the next rate level, which was 15%.
Here are the pros and cons of a progressive tax system to consider.
List of the Pros of Progressive Tax
1. It places the majority of an economic burden where it belongs.
When a universal system of taxation is implemented, then the overall economic burden is shouldered by the poorest households in a society. Although the poor and the rich would pay the same percentage of their income in taxes, a greater share of the poor household's disposable income is taken away. That means having less money for basic necessities when compared to wealthier households.
2. It allows everyone to invest into their country.
A system of progressive taxation makes it possible for all households to contribute to the welfare of their country in some way. Although the contributions may be minimal, the process of paying taxes still creates a personalized investment into their citizenship. At the same time, actual revenues can be generated through taxes charged within the upper tax brackets. It creates a form of equality through patriotism, even if economically, two households are very far apart from each other.
3. It produces more total income.
When progressive taxes are implemented, the government receives more income than it would otherwise. That is because the greatest burden of taxation falls upon the people who have the most money. Imagine if the household earning $418,400 only paid 10% of their income, just like someone who earned $9,325. The wealthier household would pay considerably more ($41,840) than the other ($932). They would also have considerably more money to spend on themselves. By having a wealthier household pay a higher percentage, fewer budget deficits occur.
4. It improves the spending power of the economy.
Low-income earners struggle to have the value of their income make an impact within their community. Many live paycheck to paycheck, one emergency away from disaster. A system of progressive taxation helps to stimulate the economy more because it can enhance the effects of growth while reducing the effects of recession. That allows lower income earners to stretch their money further than in other systems of taxation.
5. It gives more households a chance to pursue success.
Because the relative tax burden for low-income households is typically less in a system of progressive taxing, they have a greater percentage of income that can be used to improve their financial situation. Although this does mean higher earners are effectively subsidizing these efforts, universal systems would have the poor subsidizing the rich. That is ultimately why the U.S. implemented this type of taxation system in the first place.
6. It requires ongoing payments.
Progressive tax systems are usually a "pay as you go" system. That means when you earn money, it gets taxed. If a household experiences the loss of an income, then there isn't a tax burden awaiting them because of a pre-assessment of their earning capabilities. That means any tax payments which are required can be easily budgeted.
List of the Cons of Progressive Tax
1. It creates incentives to reduce taxable income.
The system of brackets that is used in the United States creates a tax system which incentivizes certain purchases or economic activities. By reducing taxable income levels, incentives are created to avoid paying taxes within the bracket of the actual income earned. The number of tax deductions or exemptions that were available in the 2017 require almost 74,000 pages of documentation to review to ensure each one taken is in compliance.
2. It costs more to implement.
The IRS estimates that it costs about $20 billion annually to implement the system of progressive taxation in the United States. When all compliance costs are evaluated, including personal and corporate costs, the total may be more than $200 billion annually. By shifting away from this tax system, the compliance cost savings could do a lot of good for the economy, helping low-income earners in ways other than a lower tax bracket percentage.
3. It is a system which encourages inequity.
Under the current system of taxation in the United States, about 47% of people do not pay any taxes at all. On the other end of the spectrum, when state and local taxes are included, some upper-class families outside of the wealthy class may pay up to 50% of their income in taxes. The goal of a progressive tax system is to create a system of fairness where everyone pays their "fair share." The reality of such a system is that many households pay more than they should because many pay nothing.
4. It greatly impacts people at the bracket cutoff levels.
There is less of an incentive to earn more money in a progressive tax system if a household's earned income is near a bracket cutoff. Income up to $37,950 is taxed at 15% or less in the United States in 2017. The next tax bracket goes to 25% for income between $37,950 and $91,900. For those who just make it into the next bracket, their tax burden can actually be higher than if they had stayed in the lower bracket.
5. It still impacts low-income earners in an unhealthy way.
Warren Buffet famously reported that he paid an effective tax rate of 17% on his income. That was about the same tax rate that his personal secretary paid that same year. If a household doesn't qualify for certain deductions, such as a mortgage interest deduction because the family rents instead of owns, then their effective tax rate in a progressive system could be higher than wealthier earners.
The pros and cons of progressive taxing create a system where income can be generated to reduce deficits and provide domestic programs and support. Every tax system creates an injustice for some demographics, and the progressive system is no exception. Deductions and exemptions attempt to rectify that problem. In practice, however, some households still find that the negatives outweigh the positives with this form of taxation.
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Louise Gaille is the author of this post. She received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Washington. In addition to being a seasoned writer, Louise has almost a decade of experience in Banking and Finance. If you have any suggestions on how to make this post better, then go here to contact our team.


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The site is owned by Candlewood Properties, Inc., and is currently used by Surfside 3 of Candlewood Lake-Sea Ray. It was formerly Maxim's and Hemlock Hills, dealing with recreational vehicles.
According to the proposed site plan, the existing outside boat storage would continue behind a new L-shaped building.
The long side of the L would be parallel to the road, and the short side would be to the back on the north side of the building.
Scott McCarthy of Apex told zoners March 17 that construction would be sequenced so the current tenant could remain open and then move to the newly constructed section.
Zoners Charlie Raymond and Eleanor Florio questioned whether current 60-foot buffers would be required since the existing buildings are being torn down. The plan presented called for 30-foot buffers.
Zoners also questioned the need for two curbcuts, but the applicant's traffic engineer, Bruce Hillson, said one cut would serve as an entrance, the other as an exit.
The proposed building would have gabled dormers, canvas awnings and brick on the lower portion.
Kathleen Dugan, who owns the property to the north, said she is concerned the planned grading would alter the flood capacity of the property, but she was assured but was assured there would be "no net loss in the flood zone."
The hearing on the application is expected to be continued April 12.


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Join us for a night of entertainment and hospitality celebrating some of the music industries most talented artists.
An invite-only event, the ARIA awards are the flagship event of the Australian music calendar – a celebration of all that is great and popular in local music. Along with the awards, the event see's performers such as Lorde, Harry Styles, Katy Perry, Peking Duk, and Amy Shark take to the stage to wow audiences with larger than life performances.
From a champagne limo transfer and walk on the red carpet to a night of world-class entertainment, incredible hospitality and celebrity after parties, this event is truly one of a kind. Availability to this experience is strictly limited and cannot be accessed anywhere else. Be sure to get in early to secure your place at the event.
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Police have made another arrest in relation to alleged horrific, historical child sexual abuse at a local boys' home.
The Nepean Police Area Command formed Strike Force Eckersley in late 2016 to investigate a series of complaints referred by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Around midday today, officers from the Australian Federal Police, accompanied by NSW strike force detectives, arrested an 81-year-old man at a home at Ainslie in the A.C.T.
The suspect has been taken to the A.C.T. Watchhouse where he remains in custody, charged by virtue of a court warrant with 11 counts of 'indecent assault on a male' and four counts of 'buggery'.
He is expected to face the A.C.T. Magistrates Court tomorrow where Nepean detectives will seek his extradition to New South Wales.
It's the fourth arrest this year in relation to the abuse that allegedly occurred at the Daruk Training School at Berkshire Park between 1965 and 1985.


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Do your friends call you, "Beer Geek," "Beer Nerd" and/or "Beer Snob?"
Are most of your friends beer geeks, beer nerds and/or beer snobs?
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Of course not. In fact, if you're reading this, there's a pretty good chance we'd get along over a cold one.
Beer brings people together. Always has. Always will.
Here in the Lehigh Valley, where the craft beer industry continues to roll out the barrels, we should make a date to celebrate the occasion with a special event.
I have good news. The party planning is well under way.
The seventh annual Lehigh Valley Beer Week begins Friday and continues to Friday, Feb. 23. Yup, that's eight days, ya Beer Nut.
About 50 taprooms from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and Upper Bucks will be flowing with tastings, dinners, brewery tours, brewing classes, meet-the-brewers forums and other bubbly activities.
Why is this happening here? Well, why not? Consider how far the Lehigh Valley has come as a craft beer hub. Consider the growth in the number of new breweries, new beers, beer festivals, beer check-ins, beer chatter and general beer knowledge that has been passed around recently among friends, neighbors and communities.
Maybe you're like me. A few years ago, my friends and I had a short list of go-to craft beers — maybe a dozen or so. We drank them, enjoyed them and returned to them. A few brews were from the Lehigh Valley, but most were from well outside the area.
Today, faster than you can say, "Sexy MotherPucker" (a popular Weyerbacher sour ale), you can probably rattle off 20 or more lovable flavors brewed less than 10 miles from your front door. Most are original recipes, some are based on batches brewed elsewhere. But most of the local stuff stacks up pretty darned well with the very best beers you'll find anywhere.
This is a big deal we should recognize, appreciate and revere, right? This is the spirit of creativity, growth and craftsmanship that you, me and we can raise a glass to at Lehigh Valley Beer Week.
Mark your calendar for these 10 Can't-Miss LVBW Events
1.) As Local As It Gets unofficial kickoff and barleywine taste test at The Spinnerstown Hotel: Friday
Spinnerstown is getting things started by featuring 13 hyperlocal Lehigh Valley beers, including Two Rivers' Baltic Porter, Yergey's Red IPA, Free Will's Chasing the Dragon, Weyerbacher's Heresy 2012 and LVBW's Guildy Pleasure III (more on this selection later).
Plus, this lead-off event will feature a special tasting of a Hijinx barleywine made years ago, when the Allentown beer-makers were brewing in owner Curt Keck's garage. Spinnerstown also will be serving a fresh Hijinx barleywine keg called Sixes and Sevens to compare with the classic keg.
2.) Kick Off Party, The Tap Room at Weyerbacher Brewing, 905 Line St., Easton: noon-8 p.m. Saturday
Officially kick off the week-long party with like-minded beer fans at Weyerbacher Brewing Co. for the tapping of Guildy Pleasure III, the official beer of LVBW 2019.
This special collaboration ale, created by the Lehigh Valley Brewer's Guild, is a hazy, 6.25% ABV (alcohol by volume), New England-style IPA. This creation is double dry-hopped with Denali, Mandarina Bavaria and Waimea hops, and it sounds like a real flavor bomb.
3.) Books and Brews, Cops 'N' Kids Lehigh Valley charity book drive with Bar Louie & Lost Tavern: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday
Since Bar Louie (Promenade Shops in Center Valley) is located next to Barnes & Noble, this seems like the right spot to promote children's literacy. This community event and book drive will provide free books and raise funds for those in need. Grab a tasty Lost Tavern beverage and donate your good-as-new books to help the cause. Bar Louie will be donating 20 percent of the proceeds to the Cops 'N' Kids charity.
4.) Sample a Roll Out the Barrels flight at Two Rivers Brewing, 542 Northampton St., Easton: (all day) Saturday
Enjoy a flight of five barrel-aged beers or sample other unique picks. Featured flavors include a ginger mango saison tart, a Thai saison, a boysenberry red sour, a tequila barrel-aged Belgian tripel and a rum barrel-aged Weizenbock.
5.) Pints and Pups at Bar Louie: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday
This charity event will feature tasty taps and adorable animals. Stop by with your furry friend at Bar Louie's heated patio to fetch a few cold ones with other pet owners and pups from Peaceable Kingdom Animal Shelter. Bar Louie will be donating 20 percent of the proceeds to the shelter.
6.) Beat the Brewer Bar Pong at Hijinx Brewing Company, 905 Harrison St., Allentown: (all day) Sunday
If you can beat Hijinx's Head Brewer Curt Keck, you'll win a prize. But good luck with that. Legend has it that a few years ago, when the event was held at Allentown's Bell Hall, Keck's "Beirut" team was undefeated at 19-0. It ain't bragging if you can back it up.
7.) Bust The Beerman Poker Night at Fegley's Allentown Brew Works, 812 Hamilton St., Allentown: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19
Hold 'em. Fold 'em. Walk away. Run. It's a Texas hold 'em poker night hosted by The Brew Works' very own "Beerman!" Enjoy tasty craft beers and play to win special prizes if you can knock out The Brew Works managers. Register today by calling the Brew Works' Ian Mondrick at 610-433-7777
8.) Russian River on tap at Spinnerstown Hotel: (all day) Wednesday, Feb. 20
West Coast brewing specialists and trendsetters, Russian River Brewing, will be featured/tapped from Spinnerstown's secret stash. Pliny The Elder (to be tapped at 3 p.m.), Consecration, Damnation, Supplication and STS Pilsner will all be on draft. These delicious attractions from the world-renowned Santa Rosa, Calif., brewery helped R.R. ascend superhero status. To say these beers are not easy to find, is an understatement. This is a special event.
9.) Ghost Hunt with Funk Brewing at Hanoverville Roadhouse, 5001 Hanoverville Rd., Bethlehem: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21
Steady your glasses full of Funk beers for this haunting video presentation of paranormal investigations filmed on location, followed by a spooky Q&A session with the owner and ghost-hunting pros. Investigate and search for spirits at The Roadhouse's dining room and private room.
10.) Hotel Bethlehem's Brews and Bites beer pairing: 6-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22
This final LVBW event is perfect for folks who are new to the craft scene and who want to get in on the action. Samples of some of the finest local beers will be served along with a delicious spread from some of the top Lehigh Valley chefs.
Hotel B chef Michael Adams and Funk's Keith Plunkett have put together a special combination of 13 Lehigh Valley craft brews and menu items for this food pairing event.
The beer lineup includes Separatist Beer Project, Two Rivers Brewing, Weyerbacher, Lost Tavern, Bonn Place, Fegley's Brew Works, Funk, Yergey Brewing, Saucony Creek, HiJinx, Taylor House and Evergrain Brewery.
Food will be prepared by Hotel Bethlehem, Edge, House and Barn, Hanoverville Roadhouse and more.
Tickets are on sale for $55 per person and include commemorative beer glass and live music throughout the night.
I'm looking forward to meeting all you beer fans and talking about some of your favorite flavors at this year's LVBW event. Cheers!
Beer enthusiast Craig Larimer of Bethlehem is the Entertainment & Lifestyle Editor of The Morning Call
Find the blog, photos and local events at themorningcall.com/beer
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Hudson Hospital & Clinic announces Emergency Center expansionTuesday, June 25, 2019
Hudson, Wis. – This fall, Hudson Hospital & Clinic plans to start a $5 million expansion project on its Emergency Center. The project will increase the number of exam, triage and trauma rooms – creating a better experience for patients and their families, and a more efficient workspace for Emergency Center colleagues.
Hudson Hospital's current Emergency Center was built in 2003 and was designed to provide care for about 8,400 patient visits per year; current volumes are approximately 11,500 visits per year. Tom Borowski, Hudson Hospital & Clinic president, said, "The expansion of our Emergency Center will provide next generation care to the community for years to come. We're improving access for patients and families; providing the latest technology in diagnostic and trauma equipment; enhancing behavioral health care for patients experiencing mental health crises; and creating an overall comfortable healing environment for patients and visitors."
To support the cost of the project, the Hudson Hospital Foundation has launched a $1 million fundraising campaign. To date, more than $400,000 has been raised. The hospital and foundation will be seeking support from the Hudson community for the expansion over the next six to 12 months.
A contractor for the project will be chosen in July, and a groundbreaking should start this fall.
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About Hudson Hospital & Clinic
Hudson Hospital & Clinic is part of HealthPartners, the largest consumer-governed, non-profit health care organization in the nation with a mission to improve health and well-being in partnership with members, patients and the community. Hudson Hospital & Clinic serves western Wisconsin with emergency, birth, rehabilitation and imaging centers, specialty clinics, cancer care, heart care, orthopedics and a nationally acclaimed healing arts program. For more information, visit hudsonhospital.org.


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In a shocking move, a Telangana official landed in soup after he sought 300 free tickets for the Indian Premier League (IPL) final that held in Uppal stadium, Hyderabad. The letter written by K Pradeep Rao, District Prohibition and Excise Officer of Medchal-Malkajgiri District, to the chief executive officer of the Hyderabad Cricket Association did rounds on social media which came to the notice of higher-ups and have sought action against him.
"Kind attention is invited to the subject cited and requesting to provide (300) IPL cricket match tickets for the upcoming final match to be held on 12-05-2019 so as to provide the same to the higher authorities of the department," Pradeep Rao wrote in an official letter with stamp and seal on May 9.
Justifying the letter, the official said many people sought tickets during cricket matches and the Board of Control for Cricket in India normally asked them to send the request. When contacted, Special Chief Secretary (Commercial Taxes and Excise) Somesh Kumar said the government took a serious view of the letter written by his department official.
"This official wrote a letter (for tickets). We have taken basically a serious view. As a first step we are issuing a charge memo (to him) and further action will follow," Mr Kumar said.
Recently, the central deputation tenure of senior bureaucrat Gopal Krishan Gupta, who had sought complimentary passes for IPL matches from Delhi cricket association, had been curtailed and he was sent back to his cadre railway ministry.


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Sunsella Bento Style Plastic Lunch Boxes {review}
Almost every weekend during the Summer season my family is out away from home checking out new things and enjoying the warm and sunny weather. In keeping within our budget we try to minimize eating out on our adventures. Packing lunches is a must but even that can get pricey if using disposable plastic bags and the like. For this reason, I turn to re-usable containers such as my set of Sunsella Bento Style Plastic Lunch Boxes!
The Sunsella Bento Style Plastic Lunch Boxes minimize waste, save me money, keep things organized, reduce clutter in my home, and are great for the environment. The boxes nest inside of each other when empty and stack together when the lids are on. This set is brightly colored in an offering of red, orange, green, and blue! My son and daughter are quite the fans of the cheerfulness this set brings and have already claimed certain colored lids for all their future packed snacks and lunches.
The material these are made of are completely BPA-free, phalate free, lead free and recyclable! These are microwave, freezer, and dishwasher safe. Each box has three compartments. I have the found the sections to be great for holding a normal sized sandwich and a few snacks like fresh fruit, vegetables, chips, or crackers. The containers are not leak proof so I would strongly caution one not to put soup or something saucy within. If you really have to, you can place plastic wrap over the container and place the lid tightly on top.
My kids can easily open and close these boxes all of their own thanks to the generous size tab on the corner of each lid. We've found two of these boxes to fit perfect in general sized lunch on the go bags with enough room for an ice-pack.
I like these boxes for our weekend excursions but will also be using them for ready made lunches during other busy times of the year such as the return of school season!
* If interested in purchasing the Sunsella Buddy Boxes – Plastic Bento Lunch Boxes , these retail for $14.99 for a set of four on Amazon.com and are eligible for two-day shipping with Prime. *
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April 23, 2019
Campus units will be surveyed to understand how innovation projects are funded locally, and that information will inform creation of any new funding options for innovation. Individuals involved with the innovation goal are working to define innovation from a university perspective and to explore IT's role in supporting it. To support innovative activities, a "build" service that can quickly research and develop IT solutions will be explored, and to ensure that existing IT services are as agile as possible to accommodate innovation, service maturity will be included and prioritized in developing an IT Service Management framework.


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Published at Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 - 09:00:35 AM. Bedroom Ideas. By Annamaria Heinrich.
One of the most important bedroom ideas is to install several storage units. You have to make sure that you have a place for everything in your bedroom. Install shelves for your small displays and knickknacks, a walk-in closet if you have an extensive wardrobe, and drawers for other bedroom stuffs. Having many storage units is even more important if you are decorating a childs bedroom. Children have too much stuff like toys and books. They should have enough storage spaces for all their things.
Think about spending a long hectic day in office and gifting your partner a bucket of exquisite roses that she can comfortably place near the bed. Your entire office tension will fade away during that time. In order to achieve this you must need to choose good quality paint and other elements. The simplest way to get them is to carry out a comprehensive market research on internet. Internet is the best medium to search anything right from the best matching furniture to an almirah for your home. There are thousands of home décor websites sharing hundreds of bedroom ideas for a romantic marriage life.
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Optical called Oasis, all played out in black and white marble, was designed by Manuel Barbieri to draw water, natural element of the Bologna event.
Silhouettes of amphorae and cactus as well as bathtubs, sinks and mirrors in white Carrara marble emphasize the understated elegance of a contemporary bathroom where the floors with geometric lines optical play with accessories designed for modern environments from the smallest.
The collaboration between the young designer Manuel Barbieri e Scandola Marmi that, after having entrusted the art direction of his first collection of fancy marble for the house, which included a complete remake and the repositioning of Verona, from the brand image to the distribution point to a collection of innovative floor and wall design.
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I know you might have leafed through a series of such articles, and perhaps their effect might have lasted for a day. My past experiences have been more likely. I have suffered from a series of failures. I have even attended several motivational lectures, from self-proclaimed public speakers to acclaimed authors like Chetan Bhagat.
It was almost 3 years when I ended preparing for an engineering entrance. The results were far from what I had expected out of my hard work. I felt like a retard, I stopped meeting people. People who asked me "How're you?" felt as they were giving me a rough time. It was as if they were saying "You're such a retard, you got nothing!"
Life moved on. As the time passed, I met people, I shared my experiences, and for the most part, I "generalized" my views. Joining the college, I got distinction on all semesters, passed with first position the class, and what I like the most – got a high regard amongst the faculty. Moreover, I got quite a lot of interns – my profile was featured all over the internship portal itself. I got a call from a journalist of a National Magazine to interview me. I'm not boasting myself. At times I found myself in a great reasoning – How could I be a cynosure of all the eyes, in spite of being unsuccessful at an exam which was the gateway to the college.
After a few weeks, I had answers. I was no more left with wavering questions. Based on what I thought as satisfying answers, I decided to blog about it.
Students having more skill and dexterity tend to perform well everywhere. Talking about employability, nowadays, companies aren't seeking an adept candidate who is simply a nerd, avidly obsessed for a particular field, but they're on a rummage for a candidate who is a jack of all trades. To succeed, as a desirable person you must be having a plethora of skills, and we need to invent novel techniques to make it achievable. The primary ways in which a you can succeed and have a promising future are;
- Writing Skills: It isn't just enough to have technical knowledge at the present time. One needs to gain some experience before he actually feels snug sitting in the interview room! Doing summer or winter-interns in content writing and journalism can help. Read, read and perhaps read more. And as you read, you'll have numerous options to write, and more to speak about.
- Presentation Skills: If you have lot of knowledge, say for instance you feel you're great in coding but you don't know how to present it, you're no where! You must have an ability to reflect an 'A' when you have them on papers.
- Improve, Little Everyday: Don't get impatient. Nothing can happen with a click of an eye. You need to improve yourself each day. Every night before you sleep, you must have something meaningful to think of, you must be able to satisfy yourself with the fact that you're accelerating.
- Stress-Management Skills: Life never stops. It always moves on. This plays a vital role when you're aspiring for a concrete employability. You can sharpen these by managing works in college fests, doing online-interns etc.
- Quality of a "Go-getter": One needs to be able enough to perform well under minimal supervision; in short, s/he must be a "go-getter".