How to find love on OkCupid, Match (audio)

Ashley Wells, Amber Larson, Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Caitlin Roper (Senior Ed., wired.com); "AirTalk" (SCPR.org, Can a few words turn us into successful online daters?)

What? We met online! It's like we've known each other for years. Miley is our role model!

   

Annoying Ugly Duckling transformed. Who?

Trying to look attractive on online dating profiles? Take up yoga or surfing.
 
According to WIRED’s analysis of “massive amounts of data” from popular dating sites OkCupid and Match.com, what people say in their profiles may play a role in how attractive other users find them to be. (Continued with audio below this simple How To).
 
How To Score Dates on Match.com
Agatha Thornbush, Guest Contributor

10. Tell them right up front: "NO DRAMA!!!"

First, set your standards high. Way high. It's like my firstborn's father used to say, "Aim for the stars to hit the moon." Second, be firm. Stand your ground. Don't let anybody cross your boundaries. Three, set boundaries. You've got to tell him/her right on the first date. I didn't pay Match.com good money to date a scrub. Fourth, go light on the pictures. God knows, if they're really interested, they'll wait. Whose going to want to buy Coca-Cola in cans when he/she can get Pepsi in plastic? Think. D'uh. Fifth, don't wear your heart on your shoulder. But a chip is OK. Six, make sure there grammer is impecable. 

Think his dialing finger broke?

Six, don't ask about money or a job. But keep an eye on their shoes and where they take you. That'll tell you ALL you need to know. I'm out to protect myself. Seven, make your expectations known right up front. Speak your mind; don't edit. Do you have time to waste? Because I don't have time to waste! If you don't want commitment, marriage, a house, kids, and all of it on my internal-clock's schedule, why are you wasting my time? Eighth, read The Secret and Law of Attraction, and Cosmo, and let the man chase. There are plenty of fish in the sea. What makes you think you're so special? The same probably holds true for thespians. Ninth, find me on Match, J Date, Christian Singles, Buddhist Singles, Agnostic Singles, or Catpeople for Catpeople, and let me know how it goes. Remember, "My package, my rules!" It's a lot of steps, but here they are all summarized in this short instructional video:

WARNING: Corporate situations, sexual references, language, Riff Raff!

 

In the good old days, no one had sex. Wink

A hard look at the 1,000 most popular words on the site and how attractive the people who use them are rated shows that the “hottest” men talk about oceans, breakfast, and live music.
 
The women mention fitness, Radiohead, and fashion. Attractive people of both genders overwhelmingly mention yoga, surfing, and London [associated with well heeled travel or the London Olympics?]
 
Another common theme for the most attractive online daters is some breaking of gender norms: Women interested in technology and men who mention crafting are rated very attractive.
 

That's? No way! Yes way. (DailyMail.co.uk)

Are we a culture of "Karma Police" listening, yoga enjoying, Anglophiles?
 
Is the dating pool on sites like OkCupid and Match self-selecting? Does online attractiveness translate to in-person chemistry?

• LISTEN NOW: AUDIO (19:29)

• "Peaceful" publication scandalizes celebrity by calling her a f*gl* llama-faced @$$&!#
• Ready or not, Winter Olympics competitions kick off in Sochi, Russia
• Resurgence of long-form journalism - quantity vs quality

Maybe whom we meet is due to our "Karma Police" - Ashley
 

The Agatha System worked!! Wait, these are just pics of pen*ses. WT*? (F.J. Brown)

No Snowden, Miley Cyrus for Man of the Year

Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Will twerk for money: Miley Cyrus almost became TIME's person of the year (Perez Hilton)

The real "man of the year" was beat out by a prominent religious figure aspiring to talk to animals and institutionally protect child molesters.

Snowden reveals Big NSA Brother's 1984 plans

While NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is busy trying to save the world -- working in forced exile in Russia as he discloses evidence that the USA/NSA is illegally spying on American citizens, allied nations, and almost everyone carrying a cell phone anywhere in the world. TIME's person of the year is an annual distinction asking, Who has made the greatest impact on the world, for good or ill, in the preceding year. 

Go wait in my room, my son.

Time.com chose the new Catholic pope and future "saint" Frances I. The pontiff has failed to help women in the church or in society at large as hoped, but he has criticized rampant capitalism in theory. "The church should not sell any church property for money but rather do so for the benefit of the poor" he said. The Vatican, however, has not done so nor has any other diocese anywhere in the world. The laity may have to listen to the head of the corporation; bishops, priests, and nuns do not. No one in a position to has sold off property to benefit the poor as Pope Frances preaches.

Miley twerk-teases Santa in LA (VYBZ)

Miley Cyrus -- on a rampage of self-degradation, twerking, and "horse tooth" shenanigans, according to "Family Guy" voice actor and KROQ DJ Ralph Garman -- almost got her handlers to secure her the "Man of the Year" distinction. The Catholic God (Zeus)/Goddess (Mary) must have interceded. She appeared last week at KISS FM's Jingle Ball in LA, where she twerked on stage with drunk Santa. 

Miley Cyrus sports ugly bob in LA (KROQ)

The next night, she made it over to KROQ FM's Almost Acoustic Xmas concert in Los Angeles, where she walked around with an overbearing sense of entitlement and a wagging tongue that made her resemble an attention-hungry llama.

Llama tongues are way sexy (GLV)

Miley copied me! (UO)

Snow at the Jewish wailing wall (PRI)

• Snow blankets Palestine, Jerusalem, Middle East: "Snowmageddon" takes hold
• Charles Lindbergh used FREE energy
• Will Beyonce upstage hubby JayZ Magna Carter? (NPR)

Zach G. beats Justin Bieber on TV! (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Zach Galifianakis "Between Two Ferns," Superstar OG Justin BieberWARNING: Things get violent as the TV interviewer begins to beat Justin Bieber on the air!

 

Bieber (right) with model (perezhilton.com)

This is the real Bieber without his agent Scooter. He appears like a deer in the headlights on comedian Zach Galifianakis' Internet interview show "Between Two Ferns," Sept. 26, 2013. Bieber now lives in a dowdy suburb of Los Angeles and is angry about his wannabe rapper friends destroying his home while he is on a world tour winning over the hearts and minds of little girls and creepy guys everywhere.

Zach goes over Justin's head with many of the veiled jokes at Justin's expense but then makes it perfectly obvious how he really feels as he proceeds to assault and batter the dancing Canadian idol (and national embarrassment) by repeatedly beating him (Min. 3:50) as most people alive on the planet today have at some time or other wanted to do.

Rihanna stays in the tabloids

He may not be the most followed person in the Twitterverse -- a distinction that rightly goes to media royalty like Lady Gaga, or the Dalai Lama, or anyone with non-bot followers -- but he sure doesn't have much to say when bombarded with the kind of questions we would ALL like to have asked the Beebs over the years as he skyrocketed to fame vomiting on stage, having sex with Rihanna (who would be his molester under state law) but not Ke$ha, abandoning a hapless monkey in Germany, endangering the lives of his neighbors, or hurting former Disney child star Selena Gomez's standing in the media. While he's peeing in buckets, smoking drugs, getting bad tattoos, insulting Holocaust victim Anne Frank... keep in mind, we are all still being spied on by the NSA, and the CIA is still promoting imperial war all over the world.

But is anyone more desperate than Miley Cyrus?

NSA defeats privacy, encryption, and Internet security (D.N.)

Obama: War begins on 9/11; Twerking (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; D-Now

Mainstream media mogul Babs Walters interviews despotic dictator Assad (ABC News)

Puppet dictator, useful tool for US/MIC

With the focus on the US/MIC's newest war, there is a global failure to meet Syria’s humanitarian crisis. And even as the U.S. and its massive military industrial complex (MIC) push for attack on Syria, questions loom over Obama and Kerry's claims about Assad's chemical attack, which was actually another false flag operation meant to serve as yet another pretext for war.
 
America is the great moral actor in the world: We go in to kill, control, and loot. Why? Because we will not stand for the immoral use of military force and corporate greed. But could this foreign military action turn Syria's civil conflict into a "widespread regional war"?
 

Recent interviews with Bassam Haddad, Phyllis Bennis, Razan Zaitouneh, a lawyer and human rights activist in Syria who says "I haven’t seen such death in my whole life," and Patrick Cockburn, are available. Alert to Iran

 

Let's enslave another country and reduce it to rubble (democracynow.org)

Life During Wartime: Twerk

Jimmy Kimmel reveals conspiracy: "Worst Twerk Fail EVER - Girl Catches on Fire" prank

• Representative Alan Grayson on Syria: congress should reject "warmongering" and focus on problems at home

• "Make the Economy Scream": Secret documents show Nixon, Kissinger backing illegal coup
• VIDEO: Mass UFO sighting at football game in Canada
• As Assad regime accepts Russian plan on chemical weapons, a debate on Syria’s path forward 
• Documents in David House case reveal how U.S. seizes LAPTOPS at airports to avoid need for warrant
• Assad criticizes U.S. and Israeli use of chemical weapons
• India: 4 convicted in fatal gang RAPE that sparked mass protests

Don't Attack Syria

(DontAttackSyria.com)

(DN) American Warlord Obama’s efforts, as the face of the US/MIC, to win legislative backing for military strikes against Syria passed. It was its first hurdle last Wednesday when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 10 to 7 in favor of bombing. Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson (DontAttackSyria.com), a leading opponent of the resolution in the House, is gathering signatures for a petition calling on Congress to deny permission to attack Syria. "I am very disturbed by this general idea that every time we see something bad in the world, we should bomb it," Grayson says. "The president has criticized that mindset, and now he has adopted it. It’s simply not our responsibility to act alone and punish this."