Things that I am enjoying:
Haagen-Dasz’s “Five” ice cream: five ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, eggs, and one flavor. Coffee and mint are excellent, very soft and creamy and still lower-fat than many others, and I look forward to brown sugar if I ever get tired of coffee.
Harper’s Island: Cheesy and soapy and unrepentantly gory, with plenty of familiar faces and a promise that at least one person will die every episode and the killer will be revealed at the end of the short season: guilty pleasure.
Fringe:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yahtzee’s enjoyment finally got me to mainline the first season over the past few days. It took me a few episodes to get into the story of how FBI Agent Olivia Dunham and her father-and-son team of science geniuses investigate unusual happenings related to something called The Pattern. (The father has been released from a mental hospital into his son’s custody at the request of the FBI, because he’s the expert on the “fringe” science at issue in The Pattern. A special unit in the FBI has divined the existence of The Pattern before Olivia shows up, but doesn’t know much more than that.) The “science” is laughable almost even by X-Files standards. But! There’s Olivia.
( Why I heart Olivia Dunham, and thus Fringe )
Not Awesome:giandujakiss has posted about this before, but here’s another version of the story of the former head of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission), who warned everyone about the need for regulation of complex derivatives and was derided, ignored, and stripped of power. Why? Some of the culprits say it was her tone:
Haagen-Dasz’s “Five” ice cream: five ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, eggs, and one flavor. Coffee and mint are excellent, very soft and creamy and still lower-fat than many others, and I look forward to brown sugar if I ever get tired of coffee.
Harper’s Island: Cheesy and soapy and unrepentantly gory, with plenty of familiar faces and a promise that at least one person will die every episode and the killer will be revealed at the end of the short season: guilty pleasure.
Fringe:
yahtzee’s enjoyment finally got me to mainline the first season over the past few days. It took me a few episodes to get into the story of how FBI Agent Olivia Dunham and her father-and-son team of science geniuses investigate unusual happenings related to something called The Pattern. (The father has been released from a mental hospital into his son’s custody at the request of the FBI, because he’s the expert on the “fringe” science at issue in The Pattern. A special unit in the FBI has divined the existence of The Pattern before Olivia shows up, but doesn’t know much more than that.) The “science” is laughable almost even by X-Files standards. But! There’s Olivia.( Why I heart Olivia Dunham, and thus Fringe )
Not Awesome:
giandujakiss has posted about this before, but here’s another version of the story of the former head of the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission), who warned everyone about the need for regulation of complex derivatives and was derided, ignored, and stripped of power. Why? Some of the culprits say it was her tone:Some of the other regulators have said they had problems with Born’s personal style and found her hard to work with. “I thought it was counterproductive. If you want to move forward ... you engage with parties in a constructive way,” Rubin told the Washington Post. “My recollection was ... this was done in a more strident way.” Levitt says Born was “characterized as being abrasive.”A whiff of sexism? You think?
Her supporters, while acknowledging that Born can be uncompromising when she believes she is right, say those are excuses of people who simply did not want to hear what she had to say.
“She was serious, professional, and she held her ground against those who were not sympathetic to her position,” says Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland who was a top aide to Born at the CFTC. “I don’t think that the failure to be ‘charming’ should be translated into a depiction of stridency.”
Others find a whiff of sexism in the pushback. “The messenger wore a skirt,” says Marna Tucker, a senior partner at Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell in D.C. and a longtime friend of Born’s. “Could Alan Greenspan take that?”
