I’ve decided the French make the most fucked up horror movies. I only really needed to see High Tension and Mutants to reach this conclusion. Mutants was a fresh, disturbing, and disgusting take on zombies. With so many bodily fluids. SO MANY. It almost made me nauseous a few times. And that is saying something. Loved it! Who has more French horror recommendations?

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From my shoot with JC Argetsinger. More to come!

All You Knead: Banana Split Cupcakes

allyouknead:

This is my absolute favorite cupcake recipe. They taste just like a banana split!

Makes about 18 cupcakes.

1/2 cup margarine or shortnening

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup mashed bananas (about 2 medium bananas)

1/2 cup applesauce

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups Bob’s Red Mill AP GF flour

1 teaspoon…

I can’t wait for next week!!

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What a babe!

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Research consistently demonstrates a link between decreased fertility thanks to contraception and increased female employment. And right on cue, women, freed up from unwanted child bearing and child rearing, consequently flooded the workforce after the pill became widely accessible. In 1950, 18 million women were in the workforce. By the 1980s, the pill’s impact had had such an effect that 60 percent of women of reproductive age were employed. By 2000, the ranks of women in the workforce had more than tripled since the ’50s, rising to 66 million. Overall, from 1970 to 2009 women went from holding 37 percent of all jobs to almost half of them.

This change has had a significant impact on women’s lives and families, the fallout of which is still reverberating throughout the culture wars. But the impact on our economy is easy to quantify. The private sector has long recognized this fact: consulting giant McKinsey explains that without the huge increase in women’s workforce participation since the 1970s, “our economy would be 25% smaller today — an amount equal to the combined GDP of Illinois, California and New York.”

How Access To Contraception Benefits The Economy

According to the Economist, since the 1970′s, “back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the employment of extra women has not only added more to GDP than new jobs for men but has also chipped in more than either capital investment or increased productivity.”

And then, of course, there are the health care savings that come with contraception. Nationally, every dollar spent on family planning saves $3 in Medicaid costs. According to the Guttmacher Institute, “every $1 spent on public funding for family planning saves taxpayers $3.74 in pregnancy-related costs.” When California spent $400 million on family planning services in 2002, “$1.1 billion was saved in public funds that would have been spent on medical care, income support, and social services through averting pregnancies up to age two, and $2.2 billion up to age five.”

Since the GOP doesn’t give a shit about women, maybe talking about their precious capital economy will get them to not be total asshats.

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