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Ratings, Plaidurday, Harambe, Icky Trump, escape key, procrastination
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Published Friday, October 07, 2016 @ 4:19 AM EDT
Oct 07 2016

On this day in 1968, the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system was adopted, replacing the Motion Picture Production Code which had been adopted in the 1930s. MPAA's member studios include Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal City Studios LLC; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

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Today is also Plaidurday, the worldwide celebration of plaid.

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A Florida man interrupted a West Palm Beach news station’s live weather coverage of Hurricane Matthew and urged viewers to take out and display their genitals for Harambe, the gorilla shot and killed by zookeepers in Cincinnati.

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Some people born on October 7 who said some interesting things: Diane Ackerman, Clive James, Thomas Keneally, Desmond Tutu, R.D. Laing, William Zinsser, Elizabeth Janeway, Helen MacInness, and Niels Bohr.

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For you youngsters: The White Stripes Selling 'Icky Trump' T-Shirts/

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'There’s something nice about having a get-me-the-hell-out-of-here key.' The origin of the 'escape' key .

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Hillary Clinton joins Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon B. Johnson as only the third presidential candidate endorsed by The Atlantic magazine since the magazine's founding in 1857.

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This article accurately describes the type of procrastination that afficts me. It's also a form of checking one's cognitive abilities... can I still pull this off? Alas, the mind is willing, but the body is often weak. I dozed off in my chair and just lost another 20 minutes.

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Overall, slightly more than half of all doctors are Democrats, but they sort out differently when broken down by specialty. Your surgeon, anesthesiologist, and urologist are probably Republican. Your infectious disease specialist, psychiatrist, and pediatrician are likely Democrats. "One explanation could be money. Doctors tend to earn very high salaries compared with average Americans, but the highest-paid doctors earn many times as much as those in the lower- paying specialties. The fields with higher average salaries tended to contain more doctors who were Republican, while the comparatively lower-paying fields were more popular among Democrats. That matches with national data, which show that, for people with a given level of education, richer ones are more likely to lean Republican (possibly because of a concern over the liberal policy goal of taxing the wealthiest at a higher rate)." The full New York Times article is here.

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Pseudo journalist Matt Drudge suggests the warning accompanying Hurricane Matthew are part of a left-wing conspiracy to convince Florida residents that climate change is real.

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Have a good weekend!


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