‘Marriage is serious business, but kissing is not’: Mindy Kaling on why it should be OK to lock lips with others after saying ‘I do’
Daily Mail: Mindy Kaling has voiced her opinion that one should still be able to kiss other people after they get married.
In a New Yorker article, the comedienne and author, 33, who is single, says kissing new people is ‘one of the greatest joys of life,’ which married people should be able to enjoy, too. ‘Why should saying “I do” necessarily mean “I will not kiss another human for the rest of my life”?’ she asks.
The actress and director, who writes and stars in Fox’s The Mindy Project, said one of the perks of acting is getting to kiss men, often married ones, with ‘zero repercussions for anyone involved.’ She goes on to explain that she is by no means advocating open marriage. ‘Marriage is a serious business,’ she writes. ‘[But] kissing is not.
‘Just because I want to kiss someone doesn’t mean I want to love that person, share a bed with him . . . tell him not to use so much salt, or share one AOL e-mail account,’ she adds. The problem with kissing, she says, is that it has been ‘cheapened’, and is now perceived as a gateway gesture to sex.
‘Kissing is to sexual intercourse as the phrase “Can I talk to you for a second?” is to a full-blown screaming fight,’ she writes.
She admits that kissing does not come without its complications, but insists it just needs to be treated as an enjoyable legal vice akin to drinking alcohol or gambling. In other words, it just needs to be regulated.
To prevent a kiss from leading to something more, Ms. Kaling came up with a hypothetical invention called the Kiss Monitor™, an electric device inserted into the lip.
The gadget would allow a person to kiss a non-spouse for 90 seconds, before it would begin sending electroconvulsive shocks to the lips. ’If the kissing continues, the shocks increase in frequency and intensity until the patient passes out,’ writes Ms. Kaling. ‘This can be very embarrassing.’
According to Ms. Kaling, this device would resolve the issue people have with kissing others after getting married. She imagines that the Kiss Monitor™ will be a means of demonstrating marital fidelity in the future.
‘I am a romantic at heart, and. . . I look forward to the day when [a man] and I find each other, fall in love, and solemnize our relationship by exchanging Kiss Monitors,’ she wrote.
So if a kiss is just a kiss and doesn’t lead to sex, why invent something to make a kiss unpleasant?
I’m not married, yet I doubt seriously my boyfriend would want me kissing other guys – and I certainly don’t want him kissing any women! Let’s see what Mandy has to say about this free-for-all kissing after she does say “I do”.
Philly.com: Just hours before dawn on May 14, Jackie Underwood’s three daughters held her in their arms as the cancer stole the last breath from her broken body.
For many days before, and almost every day since, her children – Makia Underwood, 32, Zakia Clark, 29, and Tasha Clark, 27 – have worn hats and shirts that read “F— CANCER,” with the “C” in “F—” replaced by a breast-cancer-awareness ribbon.
“That’s how we feel. It took our mom away. It’s a demon. It’s the devil,” Zakia Clark said. “There are no other words you can use to explain how you feel. You want cancer to get cancer and die.”
Zakia and Tasha Clark were wearing their black-and-pink “F— CANCER” hats Sunday when the three sisters went to King of Prussia (KOP) Mall with a group of friends and relatives to pick out a dress for Zakia’s 9-year-old daughter to wear to her grandmother’s funeral today.
The group shopped for 2 1/2 hours, then split up, and Zakia and Tasha, Zakia’s daughter, an adult female friend and two girls younger than 5 grabbed something to eat from Master Wok at the mall’s upper-level food court.
The ladies had just sat down when a security guard approached them and, without a greeting, ordered: ” ‘Take your hats off,’ ” Zakia said. Zakia took hers off, but Tasha, who once worked at the mall, told the guard she wanted to see something in writing. It was almost as if Tasha were channeling their mother’s strong spirit, Zakia said, and it inspired her to put her own hat back on.
“He said, ‘Since you don’t want to take your hat off, you can leave my mall,’ ” Zakia recalled. “He stood there while we ate and threatened to call the cops.” Out of nowhere, Zakia said, seven more guards surrounded them. “I was very embarrassed,” she said. “My daughter was so scared she was crying.”
As the group was escorted to the mall office, Makia called and met up with them. “I couldn’t believe they were acting like they were going to arrest my sisters,” she said.
Once they got to the office, the women were met by an Upper Merion Township police officer, who had been called to the mall by security guards.
“The officer said, ‘I find it offensive that you even have that hat that says ‘F— CANCER,’ “ Zakia said. “He said, ‘It’s their mall, they want you out, you have to get out.’ “
The women were escorted out, and two security cars were waiting for them at their car just to make sure they left, Zakia said.
“I just wanted to tell them the whole story,” Makia said of the guards. “I wanted to tell them a monster came into our house, got into my mother and we had to watch that until the day it took her, so don’t tell me it’s offensive to say, ‘F— CANCER.’ “
After the Daily News began looking into the incident, Les Morris, spokesman for Simon Property Group in Indianapolis, which owns King of Prussia Mall, called Zakia yesterday to apologize. Zakia said Morris was sincere and even asked for her mother’s name and inquired about her battle with cancer.
“Certainly this could have been handled in a much more empathic and sensitive manner,” Morris told the People Paper. “We’re very sorry about her loss and wanted to apologize for the way her party was treated.”
Morris said it’s important for the mall to be “flexible.” “I do think this is an entirely different situation than a 16-year-old kid with a swear word on his T-shirt cruising the mall,” he said. “We need to be empathic, sympathetic, and listen and make sure that we’re approaching each situation as it comes up.”
To express their displeasure with the way they were treated, the sisters and Wade had planned a protest for 7 p.m. tomorrow at the mall entrance near Nordstrom, Zakia said.
The event will go on as scheduled, and they will wear their “F— CANCER” hats and shirts, she said. But in light of the apology, it will be more of an awareness rally against cancer. The sisters won’t be wearing those shirts and hats today.
“I’m not mad at God,” Makia said yesterday. “But the picture of my mother I was left with is beyond ‘F— CANCER.’ “
I’ve lost loved ones to cancer yet never had the desire to wear a shirt that says this. I’d be concerned about young children reading the words and parents having to explain them. What do you think?
Have you noticed that some images online say more than their connected stories? Here are a few. The numbers of grabs will grow as I come across them. I invite all FOTM writers to add to this post. ~TD
This caption could be attached to any picture of Michelle.
KATU: First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities – toilet paper.
Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million rolls to boost supplies.
That was little comfort to consumers struggling to find toilet paper on Wednesday. “This is the last straw,” said Manuel Fagundes, a shopper hunting for tissue in downtown Caracas. “I’m 71 years old and this is the first time I’ve seen this.”
One supermarket visited by The Associated Press in the capital on Wednesday was out of toilet paper. Another had just received a fresh batch, and it quickly filled up with shoppers as the word spread. “I’ve been looking for it for two weeks,” said Cristina Ramos. “I was told that they had some here and now I’m in line.”
Economists say Venezuela’s shortages stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and the government’s controls on foreign currency.
“State-controlled prices – prices that are set below market-clearing price – always result in shortages.The shortage problem will only get worse, as it did over the years in the Soviet Union,” said Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University.
President Nicolas Maduro, who was selected by the dying Hugo Chavez to carry on his “Bolivarian revolution,” claims that anti-government forces, including the private sector, are causing the shortages in an effort to destabilize the country.
The government this week announced it would import 760,000 tons of food and 50 million rolls of toilet paper.
Commerce Minister Alejandro Fleming blamed the shortage of toilet tissue on “excessive demand” built up as a result of “a media campaign that has been generated to disrupt the country.”
“The revolution will bring the country the equivalent of 50 million rolls of toilet paper,” he was quoted as saying Tuesday by state news agency AVN. “We are going to saturate the market so that our people calm down.”
Finance Minister Nelson Merentes said the government was also addressing the lack of foreign currency, which has resulted in the suspension of foreign supplies of raw materials, equipment and spare parts to Venezuelan companies, disrupting their production. “We are making progress … we have to work very hard,” Merentes told reporters Wednesday.
Many factories operate at half capacity because the currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials. Business leaders say some companies verge on bankruptcy because they cannot extend lines of credit with foreign suppliers.
Merentes said the government had met the U.S. dollar requests of some 1,500 small- and medium-sized companies facing supply problems, and was reviewing requests from a similar number of larger companies.
Chavez imposed currency controls a decade ago trying to stem capital flight as his government expropriated large land parcels and dozens of businesses.
Anointed by Chavez as his successor before the president died from cancer, Maduro won a close presidential election April 14 against opposition candidate Henrique Capriles, who refused to accept the result, claiming Maduro won through fraud and voter intimidation. He filed a complaint to the Supreme Court, asking for the vote to be annulled, though that’s highly unlikely to happen since the court is packed with government-friendly justices.
Patience is wearing thin among consumers who face shortages and long lines at supermarkets and pharmacies. Last month, Venezuela’s scarcity index reached its highest level since 2009,while the 12-month inflation rate has risen to nearly 30 percent. Shoppers often spend several days looking for basic items, and stock up when they find them.
Fleming, the commerce minister, said monthly consumption of toilet paper was normally 125 million rolls, but that current demand “leads us to think that 40 million more are required.”
“We will bring in 50 million to show those groups that they won’t make us bow down,” he said.
During an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to JFK, a woman would not stop singing “I Will Always Love You,” the song made famous by the late Whitney Houston.
It got so annoying that the plane made an unscheduled stop in Kansas City to hand her over to the police.
Singing woman being escorted from plane
A rep for the Kansas City International Airport told CNN, “The passenger was detained, not arrested, and then released pending further investigation by the TSA and federal air marshals. I can confirm that she was singing ‘I Will Always Love You’ as she was escorted off the plane.”
Although cameras were forbidden, a passenger surreptitiously took this video of the singing woman being police-escorted from the plane:
It’s not so much that she wouldn’t stop singing.
What drove everyone batty was her terrible singing. LOL
Three women friends went on a vacation in the Caribbean. To save money, they would share a hotel room.
The daily rate for the hotel room is $300.
Each woman paid $100, making up the $300.
But the hotel manager decided to give the women a discount and charged only $250 for the room. He told a clerk to return $50 to the three women.
The clerk pocketed $20 for himself, and gave the remaining $30 back to the three women.
Each woman got $10 back. Therefore, each woman actually paid $90 (100-10) to the hotel.
$90 x 3 = $270
$270 + the clerk’s $20 = $290
But the women originally gave the hotel $300.
Question: Where did the remaining $10 go?
Stumped?
Scroll down for the solution!
You’re stumped because you’ve been misled by how the question was posed to you.
Instead of looking at it as the three ladies actually paying $270, plus the $20 pocketed by the hotel clerk, thus equaling $290, which means $10 are uncounted for, the correct way to look at it is to start with the facts that we’ve been told:
Fact #1: Each woman initially paid $100 each.
Fact #2: Each woman got $10 back.
That means each woman actually paid $90 each.
In other words, altogether the women paid the hotel $270, not $300.
Fact #3: The hotel only charged them for and kept $250.
Fact #4: The hotel clerk stole $20.
$20 + $250 = $270.
There never was any “remaining $10″!
Another way to look at it is to look at what happened to the $300 that the 3 women originally paid the hotel:
The agency wanted to know ‘the names of the donors, contributors, and grantors’ for every year ‘from inception to the present.’
It also demanded ‘the amounts of each of the donations, contributions, and grants and the dates you received them.’
‘How did you use these donations, contributions, and grants?’ the IRS asked. ‘Provide the details.’
And in addition to the names of board members, officers and employees, the nation’s taxing authorities insisted on knowing the names of everyone who helped the Richmond Tea Party without compensation.
‘Please identify your volunteers,’ the January 9, 2012 letter from the IRS read.
The agency also required the Virginia conservative group to provide copies of sections of its website that only its members can access.
The IRS came under fire on Friday when its Office of Inspector General released a draft of an investigative timeline showing that the agency had played political favorites with nonprofit groups seeking tax-exempt status.
In 2010, according to that investigation, the Cincinnati-based IRS office responsible for vetting tax-exempt applications began targeting groups with ‘Tea Party or similar’ words in their names – including words like ‘patriots’ and ’9/12′ – for tighter scrutiny.
The Richmond Tea Party received this demand along with dozens of others from the IRS, asking for a list of its donors and the amounts they had contributed. The group refused, citing their donors’ right to privacy
The IRS ultimately identified approximately 300 such organizations, many of which were independently organized in 2009 and 2010 under the larger ‘tea party’ banner. Those groups had a decisive impact in the 2010 midterm congressional elections, and became a thorn in the side of the Democratic party, costing it race after race, especially in the House of Representatives, which shifted to Republican control.
In the nearly three years since the IRS began looking more closely at conservative nonprofit groups than others, 125 of the 300 target organizations have been approved for tax-exempt status. Another 25 withdrew their applications. The remainder are still waiting.
The Office of Inspector General’s timeline shows that in Washington, senior officials with the IRS were made aware of the practice by at least August 4, 2011. On that date, the chief counsel of the IRS met with the agency’s Rulings and Agreements unit ‘so that everyone would have the latest information on the issue.’
But during a press gaggle about Air Force One on Monday, White House Press SecretaryJay Carney insisted the White House was unaware of the investigation or its political implications until last month.
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Hi all! Just got back from another visit to my dad’s. This trip though was a “working” vacation – I went over to do some chores around his place. I helped cut down dead trees (got to use the chainsaw and drive the tractor!), split and stacked wood, stained the decks, painted two sides of his house, mowed the law, and cleaned the house – whew! Fortunately the weather was beautiful so it made my chores more bearable. Here’s some pictures from my trip.
Dad lives outside of “C” town. The cross at the top of the mountain use to be above the “C” on “gasp” – public property. Of course, the ACLU had to get involved and have it removed. A private-property owner had it moved just 100 yards east onto his property. The cross still welcomes you to town!
One of dad’s many neighbors. He wants to bring this nanny goat over to help clear up some brush. Better the goat than me!
I split and stacked this pile of wood. Thank goodness dad has an electric splitter!
Dad has about 6 hummingbirds visiting. I managed to capture a picture of two of them feeding.
And, of course I found time to use my shotgun!
Back from the working vacation – and back to work!
Dave
DCG
Dr. Eowyn
joandarc
lowtechgrannie
Steve
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