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Darts & Laurels
The Boy Scouts of America decided to postpone its decision on changing its harsh policy of excluding gay members.
“In the past two weeks, Scouting has received an outpouring of feedback from the American public,” said the Boy Scouts’ national spokesman Deron Smith, in the Washington Post. “It reinforces how deeply people care about Scouting and how passionate they are about the organization.”
We give a let-everyone-just-live-their-lives-in-the-woods-earning-badges DART to the Boy Scouts. We’re confident, though, that when May rolls around, the organization will make the right choice.
Beyoncé’s publicist emailed BuzzFeed this week to declare that too many unflattering photos of the singer were featured in a post-Super Bowl post. Instead of just rolling over, BuzzFeed created a post to explain which photos the publicist found unflattering. That’s when the Internet stepped in and had a whole field day. We give a we-promise-next-week-won’t-have-so-many-Beyoncé-articles, but-also-we-would-never-promise-that LAUREL to BuzzFeed.
A super huge, gigantic, “potentially historic” blizzard is gearing up to hit the Northeast this weekend. Winter storm Nemo is totally ready to wreck some sh*t. A massive blizzard warning was pushed to a ton of residents on their smartphones; that’s kind of cool but also kind of scary for the people who didn’t receive an alert. We give a whatever-happened-to-the-delightful-cartoon-fish-Nemo; he-was-a-much-cooler-Nemo DART to weather.
How often do you listen to what your father tells you to do? Because one dad gave his daughter $200 to stop using Facebook. She’s just 14 years old, but she was willing to quit in order to earn a few extra dollars. “I asked her about that. She said, ‘Dad, I see my friends at school. I am in the loop, and I can still text them,’” her father said in an ABC News report. We give a we-guess-that-was-good-parenting LAUREL to Facebook. Facebook is a better parent than we’ll ever be, probably.
The Los Angeles Police Department launched a crazy manhunt Thursday to find the ex-Navy reservist who was fired from the LAPD in 2008 and who went on a “murderous rampage aimed at police officers and their families.” He killed at least three people, including an 11-year veteran of the Riverside Police Department, according to the New York Times. We give a yeah-no-one-wants-gun-control-laws-right DART to Christopher Dorner.
“Community” returned to NBC this week! It’s like it’s Oct. 19 all over again. “There is so much anxiety about how people will react to it, because we’re all so invested in getting everyone to embrace the show,” said David Guarascio, one of the executive producers. “On the other hand, we feel like we’re on a night we’d much rather be on … The fact that we’re back on Thursday has also helped increase the anticipation a little bit. It’s why dessert comes at the end of the meal, it’s the anticipation that helps make it so satisfying.” We give a this-is-probably-the-last-season-of-’Community’-ever LAUREL to NBC. At least it’s back on TV, right?
Have a safe week, and go Gators!
