Stan Lee, Dead at 95

Stan Lee, the colorful Marvel Comics patriarch who helped usher in a new era of superhero storytelling — and saw his creations become a giant influence in the movie business — has died.

He was 95.

Kirk Schneck, an attorney for Lee’s daughter, tells CNN the comic giant died Sunday night around 9 p.m. PST. The cause of death is not yet known, according to Schneck.

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The “Toxic Masculinity” of Nuclear Weapons

So far, 69 countries have signed, and 19 have ratified, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an agreement approved by the U.N. General Assembly in 2017. The formal ban on the use of nuclear arms could come into force as early as next year, once 50 countries ratify. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for its efforts to promote the treaty.

However, none of the nine states that already possess nukes have signed the treaty, and several, including the U.S., have explicitly stated they won’t abide by it. Meanwhile, a new country, North Korea, recently joined the nuclear weapons club, and several existing nuclear states, including the U.S., are planning upgrades for their arsenals.

Over the weekend, I spoke with ICAN’s executive director, Beatrice Fihn, about the state of the global anti-nuclear movement. The 36-year-old Swedish attorney and activist, who was in France attending the Paris Peace Forum organized by President Emmanuel Macron, talked about the latest developments in North Korea, Donald Trump’s nuclear ambitions, and what the anti-nuclear movement has in common with #MeToo. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.

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Yeah, I’ve heard you talk before about this connection between nuclear weapons and masculinity. I wonder to what degree you see your own campaign as connected to the #MeToo movement and the larger conversation around sexual violence.

I think they’re very connected. There’s this idea of threatening to get what you want and to feel power. That’s the whole basis for nuclear weapons—the idea that if you make other people scared enough, you feel safe. And it’s not just about adding women. It’s also about questioning what’s power and what’s security, and whose security are you talking about. Those in power aren’t supposed to be unchallenged, and they’re not going to change anything by themselves. We can’t let them dictate the norms around this.

Doctors End Up Treating the Emotional Devastation Trump’s Policies Cause

We in the medical profession are supposed to help our patients manage their illnesses. We’re even accustomed to dealing with the many nonmedical issues that affect our patients’ health—insurance, literacy, housing, food, transportation. But as the basic tenets of our society are being wrenched away, we are increasingly powerless. I can use my medical training to treat anxiety and depression, but there’s nothing in the medical playbook for acute national rejection. I have tools and colleagues to help a patient with acute suicidal ideation, but there’s no algorithm for the flogging of basic humanity. In medicine, we are taught to seek out and eradicate the etiologic agents of disease. But what do we do when the etiology is our very country?

Mr. A and I methodically sorted through his symptoms and agreed on a treatment plan. He said he would not actually kill himself, because of his devotion to his wife and children—he was willing to make a safety plan based around that. We decided on a medication to help with his acute symptoms, and I made referrals to our psychiatry team and social worker.

But as Mr. A’s physician, I couldn’t do much to ameliorate the root causes of his distress. My primary clinical intervention, it seemed, was to pass the box of tissues back and forth between us. At one point, I put my hand on his shoulder. “Please know,” I said, “that not all of America feels this way and so many are fighting to change this.” It sounded pretty thin, even to me, but still, I felt obliged to say something. After all, it was my own father’s journey to America 60 years ago that enabled me to be sitting here in a white coat. With luck, Mr. A’s journey would allow his son to do the same thing for a future generation of patients.

The midterm election results felt liked we’d clawed back a bit of our country. But still, it wasn’t enough to heal the damage done to so many people. We still live in a country that sees fit to dehumanize and denigrate our neighbors and fellow human beings. And that dehumanization does real harm, to real people. I see it every day in my patients. We can try our best to treat the symptoms, but what we really need is to treat the cause.

Bookmark for the next time you get in an argument about national healthcare.

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George R.R. Martin admits he’s “struggling” with The Winds of Winter

George R.R. Martin’s been living a life of champagne wishes and caviar dreams since HBO turned Game Of Thrones into a cultural phenomenon, hobnobbing with celebrities and inking TV deals as if there isn’t an unfinished manuscript gathering dust on his Wordstar 4.0. He’s shared sample chapters from his upcoming The Winds Of Winter to satiate the frothing mob, and even gave a middle finger to those who worry he won’t be able to finish A Song Of Ice And Fire before kicking the bucket. In a new interview with The Guardian, however, he’s opened up a bit about just how hard it’s been to slip into his old writing routine when the world’s pounding on your door.

“I’ve been struggling with it for a few years,” he said. “The Winds of Winter is not so much a novel as a dozen novels, each with a different protagonist, each having a different cast of supporting players, antagonists, allies and lovers around them, and all of these weaving together against the march of time in an extremely complex fashion. So it’s very, very challenging.”

[Brandon Sanderson puts on his corpse-fucking outfit]

Creepy Porn Lawyer Strikes Again – But This Time His Target Is Fox News’ Tucker Carlson

From Carlson’s statement on the incident:

On October 13, I had dinner with two of my children and some family friends at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia. Toward the end of the meal, my 19-year-old daughter went to the bathroom with a friend. On their way back through the bar, a middle-aged man stopped my daughter and asked if she was sitting with Tucker Carlson. My daughter had never seen the man before. She answered: ‘That’s my dad,’ and pointed to me. The man responded, ‘Are you Tucker’s wh*re?’ He then called her a ‘f**king c*nt.’

My daughter returned to the table in tears. She soon left the table and the club. My son, who is also a student, went into the bar to confront the man. I followed. My son asked the man if he’d called his sister a ‘whore’ and a ‘c*nt.’ The man admitted he had, and again become profane. My son threw a glass of red wine in the man’s face and told him to leave the bar, which he soon did.

Avenatti contends all this yelling wasOK because his client is a gay Latino immigrant. And that having a glass of wine thrown in his face was so, so much worse than calling a 19-year-old noncombatant a whore and cunt.

Avenatti is becoming the Gloria Allred of the Resistance.

Yes, yes… throwing the wine is assault. And words are not violence. And fighting words is a bullshit doctrine. Pay for the dry-cleaning and throw Avenatti a dollar in lawyer’s fees. [bangs gavel]

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Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Fried Chicken Bites

You’ll start with a single 9-ounce bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, which get pulsed into a fine powder in the food processor. As they cook, the Cheetos lose a bit of their kick, so you’ll want to add a pinch of cayenne and some salt to the powdered Cheetos to keep them flamin’ (sorry, I had to say it).

Here’s the best part: You’ll coat the chicken bites in mayo before tossing them in the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos powder. The mayo keeps the chicken juicy and helps the coating stick. While the recipe calls for a few zip-top bags to keep cleanup minimal, feel free to use small bowls instead.

You’ll notice these chicken bites are pan-fried, rather than deep-fried. Pan-frying is easier and uses less oil, and because you’ll be able to control the temperature of the oil more easily, you don’t risk burning the Flamin’ Cheeto coating.

Can you imagine how horrible it would be if your butthole had tastebuds?