UPDATE: THIS SCREENING ON AUGUST 26 HAS BEEN CANCELLED. The filmmaker has released the film on her website. Remember during the darkest of COVID days when Dan Fraser had the idea to hold a mass outdoor haircut fest in Dan & Whit’s parking lot, proceeds to benefit two Norwich hairdressers whose salons had been required to close? The town of Norwich, Vermont was beautified by 22 newly trimmed heads, and bystanders took a therapeutic, communal deep breath amid some laughter.

The graphic flashed on Fox’s telecast last night and made its way across all the social medias platforms from MLB’s account. The eerie numerical similarities between Reggie Jackson, the original Mr. October, and Corey Seager, the latest Mr. October. Seager is on the verge of joining Jackson as the only position players to win two World Series Most Valuable Player awards. They are both left-handed. They both enjoy swinging at the first pitch.

There was no 20-minute sex sequence this week, so we already won. This time around on The Idol, we delve deeper into Tedros’ background and the hold he has on his minions Chloe and Isaak. Elsewhere, Leia lives through her personal nightmare, Xander pushes for a scandalous album cover, and we unpack Jocelyn’s dark past & the hairbrush from hell. If I were Leia and a walking rattail were critiquing my driving (“you’re fucking up the vibe”) I would shoot him on sight.

Plant based “meat” has gone mainstream. You can buy the Impossible and Beyond burgers at Target, you can grab and Impossible Whopper at Burger King, and you can get a Beyond Sausage breakfast sandwich at Dunkin. Apparently there are even Impossible Chicken nuggets available now. I have patients come into my office all the time to tell me (with real pride in their voice) that they’ve given up meat, with the implication being that their diet is really healthy now.

The “just-world fallacy” is a cognitive bias — a feeling more than an idea — that people get what they deserve. The rich and beautiful must be wonderful, even if their goodness is not immediately evident, while those who suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune must have done something to bring it on themselves. Maybe they’re dim, or lazy, or cruel, or profane. Whatever. It’s their fault. Somehow or other.