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Just in case any of you were wondering, here’s the WordPress 2014 report for life and puppies:
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,700 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
In the latest edition of Things I Never Imagined Saying, I give you this:
“Molly, why is there poop on your dreidel?!”
I think it’s a hit.
AO did not hesitate to tell me that my last post didn’t go over so well. So, I’ll move back to some *exciting* happenings on the homefront. This past weekend, my mom and Molly and I went shopping at local treasures Iconi and Rubin’s. I was looking for a new chandelier for our dining room – see previous west elm debacle – but spotted a beautiful side table in the most perfect aqua blue at Iconi. I had been looking for a side table for some time to replace this number from the old Comfort Shoppe:
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While I still think it’s a very pretty table, I am moving away from natural wood tones in the house, in favor of white furniture or furniture with color. So, when I spotted the blue side table, I thought I had found my soul mate. My mom sweetly offered to buy it for me. I declined, insisting that I could buy it myself. My mom won. She does that too often. Now we have this:
![IMG_2488[1]](https://lifeandpuppies.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/img_24881.jpg)
It’s not a great shot, but I swear it looks really nice. The IKEA couches in a pseudo-sectional may not be ideal, but they work for now. The pillows normally look less weird, but I wasn’t really styling the shot. Please, folks, go easy on me.
Now, for that chandelier…
Who’s been following this Rolling Stone-UVA mess? I don’t know what to say. But that’s never stopped me before.
So, I didn’t get around to reading the original piece until yesterday. Like probably everyone else who read it, I thought, “Wow. UVA has a real problem on its hands. I mean, those fight song lyrics alone call for a federal investigation.” After I finished the article, I quickly read Slate’s take on it. In reading the first couple of paragraph’s of the Slate piece, I thought, “Well, sure, maybe Erdely should have made an attempt to contact the alleged perps, but really the story isn’t about ‘Jackie,’ it’s about the culture of rape at UVA, right?” But then as I got to page two of the article, I realized that Rosin and Benedikt were right: if “Jackie” isn’t credible, there goes the story. Does UVA have an obligation to address crimes that didn’t happen? Uh, of course not. So, I found myself troubled by the whole thing, asking my friend at happy hour, “What the hell happened?”
And just now Rolling Stone has hedged its defense of its story.
And now I really don’t know what to make of the whole thing. What obligation does RS have to explain to us the inconsistencies it references in its veiled “apology”? Should we just let the story die? How does UVA respond to this? How does “Jackie”? How do we?
#help
UPDATE: The WaPo has details on the problems with the RS story. I admit that this has a larger-scale Audrey Seiler feel to it. Jackie is clearly struggling, but it doesn’t seem like it’s because of a gang rape at a fraternity during her freshman year at college. Ugh. What a mess.
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