Sexy Women Ask For Healthcare That Keeps Them Sexy … And Alive

Do you like sexy women? Sure, we all do. Well, you know what the sexiest thing of all is? Receiving the necessary healthcare coverage necessary for being a living woman!

In this Funny or Die video, Blac Chyna, Rebecca Romijn and Nina Dobrev have a favor to ask. They want to stay sexy, but to do so, they first need women’s healthcare to stay alive.

Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, Tracy Morgan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Padma Lakshmi and a whole host of other stars are teaming up for Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU. Donate now and join us at 7 p.m. Eastern on Friday, March 31 on Facebook Live. #standforrights2017 

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AP Adds Singular 'They' To Stylebook

The Associated Press made an inclusive acknowledgement of the spectrum of gender identity on Friday by announcing that the 2017 AP  Stylebook will contain the singular “they” pronoun.

The AP Stylebook provides guidelines for journalists for everything from punctuation to, in this instance, how to refer to marginalized communities. 

According to the AP, while the singular “they” will be included in the print edition of the 2017 stylebook later this year, the change has already gone into effect for online subscribers.

A portion of the entry reads:

In stories about people who identify as neither male nor female or ask not to be referred to as he/she/him/her: Use the person’s name in place of a pronoun, or otherwise reword the sentence, whenever possible. If they/them/their use is essential, explain in the text that the person prefers a gender-neutral pronoun. Be sure that the phrasing does not imply more than one person…

“They” is oftentimes used as a singular pronoun by individuals who don’t feel comfortable identifying with he/his or she/hers pronouns.

The AP also noted that they now consider LGBTQ an acceptable acronym, following suit with GLAAD’s standards change in 2016 to add the “Q” to LGBT.

H/T NNN

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GOP Congressman Turns Science Committee Into Platform For His Own Anti-Science Views

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — one of Congress’ most outspoken climate change deniers — is using the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to push his own agenda. 

In addition to harassing federal climate scientists and issuing subpoenas to seemingly everyone looking into oil giant Exxon Mobil’s suppression of climate change research, the committee chairman is loading hearings with witnesses who largely agree with his personal views. 

It’s normal for the majority party to pick the bulk of a hearing’s panelists. What many find shocking, however, is who Smith is choosing to invite. 

The congressman tackled the subject of “Making EPA Great Again” last month by turning to a coal lawyer, a chemical industry lobbyist and a libertarian scholar who recently accused the Environmental Protection Agency of “regulatory terrorism.” The committee’s Democratic minority chose the fourth witness: Rush Holt Jr., chief executive of the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

Wednesday is shaping up to be more of the same, with a panel of witnesses stacked 3-to-1 in Smith’s favor. This time around, the subject is climate change. 

The hearing, titled “Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method,” will “examine the scientific method and process as it relates to climate change” and “focus on the underlying science that helps inform policy decisions,” according to a hearing charter. To do that, Smith has invited a trio of prominent, like-minded climate change skeptics.

The ultimate goal, as the committee noted on Twitter, will be “making scientific debate great again.”

While speaking at a climate conference hosted by the conservative Heartland Institute last week, Smith blasted the Obama administration and the “liberal political agenda.” He also praised President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo Barack Obama’s climate legacy and promoted the upcoming committee hearing to discuss climate change and the scientific method ― something he said is “repeatedly ignored by the so-called, self-professed climate scientists.”

The audience applauded each time the congressman read off the name of a chosen witness.

The first person he named was Judith Curry, president of Climate Forecast Applications Network, who retired in January as a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Curry defended EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt when he told CNBC that he does not believe carbon dioxide is to blame for global warming.

“If I am interpreting Pruitt’s statements correctly, I do not find anything to disagree with in what he said: we don’t know how much of recent warming can be attributed to humans,” Curry wrote in a blog post

Second on Smith’s list of witnesses is Roger Pielke Jr., an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado often cited by climate change skeptics. 

I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax,” Peilke wrote last year in the Wall Street Journal. “But my research led me to a conclusion that many climate campaigners find unacceptable: There is scant evidence to indicate that hurricanes, floods, tornadoes or drought have become more frequent or intense in the U.S. or globally.”

And finally, Smith named John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama. The “danger just isn’t there,” Christy has said in reference to global warming, arguing that there’s no smoking gun to prove human activity is the main culprit.

Smith paused before reading off the final witness, who had been chosen by the committee’s Democratic minority.

“Before you applaud, let me read the name,” he warned, as the audience laughed. “Last witness is Michael Mann.” 

The crowd booed loudly. 

“That’s why it’s going to be a good hearing,” Smith chuckled.

Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, tweeted that he found it an “honored to be booed” at the Koch Brothers-funded, anti-science, “climate denier” event.

Smith acknowledged at the Heartland conference that the House Science Committee is “now a tool to advance his political agenda rather than a forum to examine important issues facing the U.S. research community,” Science magazine’s Jeffrey Mervis reported.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), the ranking Democratic member of the committee, echoed that sentiment in an email to The Huffington Post.

“The Chairman unfortunately has ignored the overwhelming majority of scientists around the world who represent the scientific consensus on climate science, instead calling three witnesses friendly to his anti-science, pro-industry point of view — witnesses who have already collectively appeared in front of Congress at least 20 times over the past decade,” she said. 

“I am saddened that the Chairman has taken this great Committee that was once at the forefront of our [research and development] policy-making and turned it into a vehicle to advance his political agenda at the cost of diminishing its standing in the eyes of the scientific community,” she added. 

I am saddened that the Chairman has taken this great Committee … and turned it into a vehicle to advance his political agenda at the cost of diminishing its standing in the eyes of the scientific community.
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)

Mann told HuffPost via email that he’s attending Wednesday’s hearing to “attempt to inject some actual facts and some actual climate science in a Washington D.C. atmosphere where ‘alternative facts’ and industry-funded science denialism have run amok.”

Given his audience and fellow panelists, however, that may prove easier said than done.

During his speech last week, Smith argued the Obama administration spent years promoting its political agenda rather than relying on “good, sound science,” and that the “days of trust-me science are over.”

“They often regularly claimed that extreme weather, hurricanes and severe storms were getting worse due to human-caused climate change,” he said of members of Obama’s administration. “They never let science get in the way of their assertions.”

Ironically, a study Mann co-authored that links extreme weather events to climate change was published Monday in Nature Scientific Reports.

As Curry noted in a post to her blog, the event will be “high theater for climate geeks.”

“Get your popcorn ready,” she wrote. 

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TLC Is Rebooting 'Trading Spaces,' And We're Freaking Out

Move over, “Property Brothers” ― “Trading Spaces” is ready to make its return to the world of home renovation TV. That’s right, the beloved TLC show is returning to television in 2018, keeping the age of the reboot alive and well. 

Nancy Daniels, TLC general manager, shared the announcement on Tuesday at the Discovery Communications Upfront presentation.

“This is a big one,” Daniels said, according to A.V. Club. “I am excited to announce that TLC’s most successful and most iconic series, ‘Trading Spaces,’ is coming back.”

In a press release, Daniels dubbed the show, which initially ran from 2000 to 2008, “the series that put property on the map.” TLC had nothing new to add when The Huffington Post reached out for comment.

Since details about the reboot and how it will unfold are pretty sparse, we are left with a few questions: Will the families get more than a mere $1000 budget for their renos? Will Paige Davis come back to host? (HuffPost reached out to Davis to find out, and will update this post accordingly.) Will Hildi Santo Tomas and her wacky designs ― Sand on the floor! Hay on the walls! Furniture on the ceiling! ― return? And what about Ty Pennington? 

Hopefully, we get more information soon. But in the meantime, we suggest you relive the show’s glory days with some of the best “hate it” reveals: 

Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tom Hanks, Tracy Morgan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Padma Lakshmi and a whole host of other stars are teaming up for Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU. Donate now and join us at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, March 31, on Facebook Live. #standforrights2017 

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Uber is just as white and male as every other tech company

Uber is aware that its culture needs to change, and that means understanding what its culture is. To that end, the ridesharing giant has posted its first-ever diversity report… and it’s clear that the company suffers from the same homogeneity prob…

Trump rolls back Obama-era climate change policies

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that rolls back policies designed to combat climate change implemented by former President Barack Obama. The order is a broad stroke, touching everything from federal policy-making to regulations o…

Playing 'Splatoon 2' over LTE won't kill your data plan

When Nintendo first revealed its new game console back in October, it chose to end the device’s teaser trailer with a shot of a packed arena cheering an esports team. Its game of choice was Splatoon 2 for Nintendo Switch. The scene represented two th…

This Shiatsu Foot Massager knows you’ve had a long day at work

Shiatsu Massager

One long day of work can be enough to make you feel like you’re going crazy. Coming home is a relief, but instead of just plopping in front of the TV and zoning out for a few hours, it might benefit you to set aside time for some self care. This can come in the form of a bath, sipping hot tea, or going on a walk, but if you don’t give yourself a break, the aches and pains you wave away at the end of the day could turn into real health problems.

If you’re standing all day when working, then you need to make sure you take extra precautions when it comes to caring for your feet and the circulation in your legs. While you could bust out some lotion and get to massaging them yourself, it’s nice to use devices like this HappyBody Shiatsu Foot Massager to do all the hard work for you. This will take care of both the top and bottoms of your feet through kneading, air pressure, and vibration massage.

This has low, medium and high intensity settings with 2 different modes so you can work your way up to the big guns or stay with a more gentle massage. This will plug into any standard outlet, and has a 15 minute timer so you don’t fall asleep and end up bruising your feet with too much of a good thing. While it will cost a pretty penny at around $147, it should fit any size foot, and even has a heating function to add a little extra “ahh” to your massage.

Available for purchase on Amazon
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Charge Your Phone, Cut Your Seatbelt, and Break a Window With This $21 Flashlight

A USB-rechargeable Cree LED flashlight for $21 would be a pretty good deal under any circumstances, but this one includes a seatbelt cutter, window hammer, and even a 10,400mAh USB battery charger. Plus, it includes IPX6 waterproofing, so you’ll still be able to use it if you drive your car into a lake (though in that…

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Johnny Depp Will Play John McAfee in a New Movie, But Will There Be Bath Salts?

Movie fans rejoice! The obvious cinematic tale of John McAfee allegedly doing drugs, having sex, and going out of his mind in Belize will become a movie. Johnny Depp will play John McAfee, an obvious choice. But how will the A-lister manage to look as decrepit as the anti-virus software mogul? Bath salts, probably.

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