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Just a little something we got for Senior Director of Marketing Rebecca Grossman-Cohen. Why? Why not! (Kinda wishing we’d gotten one for ourselves though.)

Just a little something we got for Senior Director of Marketing Rebecca Grossman-Cohen. Why? Why not! (Kinda wishing we’d gotten one for ourselves though.)

What clearer illustration do you need that our tax system favors the very wealthiest over the people who work for them? The engineers, electricians and systems administrators who helped make Facebook worth billions can’t up and move to Singapore.
Jason Mantzoukas may be comedy’s greatest sidekick. He cracked us up in “Baby Mama,” on “Parks and Recreation” and as the homicidal Rafi in “The League,” but now he’s taking on Sacha Baron Cohen in “The Dictator.” He filled us in on breaking character and perfecting fake accents.  You’ve done a lot of improv comedy and TV acting, but this is your first big movie role. We’ve heard Sacha Baron Cohen is into improvising until a scene is right. Is it exhausting to be funny for that long?Definitely, there were times when it was. There’s a scene that we shot at an actual nuclear power plant on Long Island, and we were there for, I think, 16 hours. The takes we were doing were like 20 to 25 minutes. And, as you know, he wants to stay in character all the time, even off-camera. So there were parts where it was just the two of us speaking in these accents for so long that I started to lose my mind a little bit.

Jason Mantzoukas may be comedy’s greatest sidekick. He cracked us up in “Baby Mama,” on “Parks and Recreation” and as the homicidal Rafi in “The League,” but now he’s taking on Sacha Baron Cohen in “The Dictator.” He filled us in on breaking character and perfecting fake accents. 

You’ve done a lot of improv comedy and TV acting, but this is your first big movie role. We’ve heard Sacha Baron Cohen is into improvising until a scene is right. Is it exhausting to be funny for that long?
Definitely, there were times when it was. There’s a scene that we shot at an actual nuclear power plant on Long Island, and we were there for, I think, 16 hours. The takes we were doing were like 20 to 25 minutes. And, as you know, he wants to stay in character all the time, even off-camera. So there were parts where it was just the two of us speaking in these accents for so long that I started to lose my mind a little bit.

That’s what Jon Lipnicki looks like now. Feel old yet?  (Buzzfeed’s 48 things that will make you feel old)

That’s what Jon Lipnicki looks like now. Feel old yet? 

(Buzzfeed’s 48 things that will make you feel old)

These are the women’s winners from last weekend’s PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship. Notice anything missing? Like, perhaps, minorities?  The men of Texas Pan-American and the women of Bethune-Cookman each won for the second time in the past three years. Neither school has an African-American on its roster. Half of Bethune-Cookman’s six golfers, in fact, are European.  Where are all the minority golfers at the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship?

These are the women’s winners from last weekend’s PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship. Notice anything missing? Like, perhaps, minorities? 

The men of Texas Pan-American and the women of Bethune-Cookman each won for the second time in the past three years. Neither school has an African-American on its roster. Half of Bethune-Cookman’s six golfers, in fact, are European. 

Where are all the minority golfers at the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship?

Coquette: On kicking him to the curb

Dear Coquette, 

He’s the worst person I’ve ever known and simultaneously the most amazing. He does the worst things you can imagine. Lying, cheating, lying about cheating. Here I am, a smart woman with no illusions about who this guy she loves really is, sticking around and letting him flay her again and again. I could explain why and what I think about it but it’s inconsequential.

Whether or not I have no illusions about him, I must be delusional or hate myself to continue to allow him access to me, right? I guess my question to you is this: Can you love someone who lies to you, hurts you deeply, cheats on you and find some way to make peace with that/be bigger than that, or am I just being another stupid smart person trying to rationalize an emotional dependency?

Of course you can love someone who repeatedly lies to you, hurts you deeply and cheats on you. You can even find a way to make peace with it, but so what? None of that is an excuse to allow the bastard to remain a part of your life.

You know damn well what you have to do. You have to kick him to the curb, but you’re weak. It’s not that you hate yourself. You just don’t respect yourself, and he sure as hell doesn’t respect you either.

That’s what you need to realize and accept: He’s never going to respect you. When he gets caught, he might beg for your forgiveness. He might make romantic overtures. He might even miss you for a hot minute when you break up with him, but you should never confuse any of that kind of behavior with actual respect.

If he respected you, he wouldn’t betray you in the first place, and if you had some self-respect, you wouldn’t tolerate being betrayed. It’s time for you to gather up all your inner strength and stop allowing him access to you. Move on, fall out of love, and learn what lessons you can. Pick better on the next go-round.

You’re in too deep right now to see it, but I promise you’ll eventually realize that he wasn’t simultaneously the worst and most amazing person you’ve ever known. He was just some cheating douchebag who got under your skin.

There’s no shame in that, kiddo. It happens to the best of us.

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Halo 4 is coming! We made a few predictions for the hotly anticipated game based on the newly released cover.

Halo 4 is coming! We made a few predictions for the hotly anticipated game based on the newly released cover.

A new online database reveals that a surprising number of U.S. bureaucrats make six-figure salaries in all kinds of obscure agencies.  The searchable records contain payroll information for more than a million federal workers — about 70 percent of the total federal workforce. With the median annual household income in the U.S. at $50,020, more people might want to look into government jobs. For the big bucks, you’d want to secure yourself a job with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which had 773 employees raking in more than $300,000 each in 2011, and 83 of those earning $350,000 or more. The highest-paid employee, a medical officer named Dr. Thomas Cacciarelli, earned $398,322.

A new online database reveals that a surprising number of U.S. bureaucrats make six-figure salaries in all kinds of obscure agencies. 

The searchable records contain payroll information for more than a million federal workers — about 70 percent of the total federal workforce.

With the median annual household income in the U.S. at $50,020, more people might want to look into government jobs.

For the big bucks, you’d want to secure yourself a job with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which had 773 employees raking in more than $300,000 each in 2011, and 83 of those earning $350,000 or more. The highest-paid employee, a medical officer named Dr. Thomas Cacciarelli, earned $398,322.

shortformblog: nprfreshair: How Common Is Your Birthday? (via @stiles) People with lighter colors are more unique. There. We said it.

shortformblog:

nprfreshair:

How Common Is Your Birthday?

(via @stiles)

People with lighter colors are more unique. There. We said it.

Apple hasn’t substantially revamped its MacBook line of laptops since late 2008, but rumor has it the company’s working on an “ultra-thin” 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display to debut this summer. 

Apple hasn’t substantially revamped its MacBook line of laptops since late 2008, but rumor has it the company’s working on an “ultra-thin” 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display to debut this summer.