Two memes on my radar

[prog]

New meme:

Suddenly, everyone hates Tom Cruise.

I am not sure why this is. Some strange parodic references to this and that have trickled down to me, but without context they are meaningless. They do provide me with google terms I can use, however. Probably I'll go research them now, but I just wanted to note this here before I figure out what's going on.

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Just-noticed meme:

People who run for exercise don't jog; they run. And the word for these people is: runners.

I wonder if this is just regional. I want to jump to the sexier conclusion that it's actually the result of a successful rebranding effort by the running-for-exercise community, since "jogger" is probably right down there with "mime" for most middle-Americans.

Comments

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

I say hip hip hurray to Tom Cruise for drawing attent to the political and profit driven history pharma psychiatry. Then again, I myself did an MA thesis that argued similar views.

[prog.livejournal.com]

You did an MA thesis that argued that all psychiatry (and, by extension, the very concept of mental disorder) is a scam perpetrated by a vast global conspiracy?

If not, then you probably don't really hold similar views to TC and his Scientologist brethren.

[glowingwhispers.livejournal.com]

Yep. I sort of did argue that. See: http://www.livejournal.com/users/glowingwhispers/1971.html