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Occam's razor is the law of parsimony, economy, or succinctness. It is a principle stating that among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected.

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I don't know if you've ever talked about it and it's kind of random but what do/did you think of Quinn and Puck as a couple in season one and in season three?

Chatted about the problems with their relationship right here. 

We also discussed things a little bit under this tag (tw: ambiguous consent). 

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That was a really interesting and honest article. This acting coach didn't try to sell a bullshit image, and I especially liked that he mentioned that Vancouver is not the evil drug capital that some people made it out to be. I also liked that he mentioned he went to a memorial/funeral service for Cory in Canada. THIS is what people should read and remember, not the continual bullshit that is being sold by Lea, Ryan Murphy, or any of the Glee cast.

Yeah, it ties in just a little bit with the Time Magazine article that came out a little before the tribute episode, where Time claimed that Glee should make the face of addiction so hideous that Monteith's younger fans will recoil in horror.

Nothing the Glee cast has said or done feels convincing in that regard. Lea Michele has not said something that will make a 13-year-old think "I never want to become an addict" - this romanticized approach the cast has taken also suggests that if you become an addict, you can be immortalized through song.

You will be untouchable, is the message that the Glee cast is so quick to send out, whereas the acting coach is the only one who ponders about how destructive addiction can be. Same coin, different sides. Or something.

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www().drugabuse(.)gov/publications/principles-drug-addiction-treatment-research-based-guide-third-edition/frequently-asked-questions/how-long-does-drug-addiction-treatment an interesting article about the lenght of rehab. It seems that, to be beneficial, a treatment should last for a minimum of 90 days.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addiction-treatment-research-based-guide-third-edition/frequently-asked-questions/how-long-does-drug-addiction-treatment

Yeah, definitely.

I think it also depends on whether the individual's relapse is recurring - 90 days (call it 3 months) might work, unless they only stay clean for 6-8 weeks before they relapse again. 

But it's websites like these that really show how much of a joke Cory Monteith's "rehab treatment" back in April 2013 really was. There was just so much wrong with it, then people turned around and acted as if his death in July was supposed to be a shock. As if no one was supposed to have seen it coming. 

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www[.]readersdigest[.]ca/magazine/cory-monteith-acting-coach-remembers-glee-star This just shows you can genuinely talk about Cory and his addiction

http://www.readersdigest.ca/magazine/cory-monteith-acting-coach-remembers-glee-star

Yeah, we saw the article and there were some really interesting points which were raised.

We've seen this passage quoted quite a lot, but it's still worth a bit of a discussion:

Addiction is just an equal opportunity destroyer. It’s rapacious. Now that I’ve spent twenty-five years in a program of recovery, I can tell you that we either get better, we die or we go crazy. And this is not because I was suspicious. I never think my friends are using again. When I had seen him a month earlier, a lot of our dialogue was about recovery. What didn’t surprise me was the fact that this is how it happens - all of a sudden, the bad thing seems like a good idea. It’s one of the horrible and ongoing surprises of recovery and addiction. When you do things like twenty-eight day rehabs, it’s barely enough time to get your head on straight. I remember his very first year of sobriety. I was with him for most of it and we were going to meetings every day. Sobriety requires 100 per cent of your focus. The disease of addiction is quiet and it’s lonely. Sometimes addicts feel like they’re born with a hole in their soul and the first time they put whatever inside of it, whether it’s a drink or a drug, they feel complete. I don’t think fame and I don’t think anything makes you an addict. I think it tests the part of you that’s trying to stay sober.

It's important because we know, from interviews after his death, that Monteith did not complete a 28-day recovery period in rehab because he went to two separate facilities. We don't know the details so we can only assume he checked himself early out of both.

"barely enough time to get your head on straight" - again, it implies the rehab recovery period should have been longer. Instead he sauntered off to Vancouver for some hockey and then to Mexico for a tan. The paps were present for both events.

"I can tell you that we either get better, we die, or we go crazy" - let's do some maths, yeah? That means a third of addicts actually recover. One third lose their minds, and a third die. One in three chance of staying sober once you've completely rehab.

A somber article on how hard drug addiction and recovery actually is.

If only Lea Michele would apply the same critical thinking as his former acting coach. 

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You like McKayla Maroney?

You don't?

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Thoughts on Ryan's quote about how Glee would have ended with Rachel coming back to Lima,saying "I'm home" to Finn?

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"@msleamichele: I CANT BELIEVE IM GOING TO BE ON @TheXFactorUSA TONIGHT!!!!!! #LeaOnXFactor ⚡️⚡️⚡️" The grammar, the grammar... #SheIsAWriterTho

Though* 

Lea Michele apologists are super quick to argue that someone’s writing skills on Twitter are not reflective of their overall writing skills, but we still have a slight bone to pick with that. If you can’t be bothered to apply basic grammar rules in 140 characters, how can we know you can do it for 140 pages?

It’s not “just” the typos - I know that for all of this blog’s whining about grammar, we do make grammatical mistakes and typos. We’re human.

But we still make a pretty big effort to be grammatically correct, to write words out in full, and, well, we know the difference between your/you’re. It’s basic, standard stuff.

Just because she has an editor and most likely a ghost writer doesn’t mean Lea Michele is a good writer. And it doesn’t mean she should get a free pass just because she doesn’t want to apply grammar rules in a 140-character tweet.

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Getting reacquainted with both MLA and APA... not fun.

Our order of preference:

1. MLA2. Chicago3. APA

Sigh. So many words. So, so many words being written right now. 

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Best of luck on your finals! :) <3

Thanks!

And good luck to everyone who is getting reacquainted with MLA format and the library...

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Are you still working on the "Faberry & The Media" post?

http://imgur.com/TEzpKH9

Number of articles we’ve discussed in it so far: ONE.

So cut us some slack, yeah? We’ve always delivered. Sometimes it just takes us a while but we always do good on our word.

Also finals week is approaching and while we do heart this blog, our GPA is kinda important, too, so, you know. That takes up a bit of our time as well.

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kaidanlenko (.) tumblr (.) com/post/69653214566/i-c-o-n-i-c cheers! :)

http://kaidanlenko.tumblr.com/post/69653214566/i-c-o-n-i-c

Our followers know us so well. <3

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BEYONCE

STILL HAVEN'T HEARD THE ALBUM, STOP RUBBING IT IN.

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I'm not sure if you've discussed this before or if it's on your veto list.--Seriously? I'm only a casual follower of you guys and I'm pretty sure the topic has been brought up several times...

No handbag throwing...

I don't know, I mean this blog doesn't exactly tag things explicitly and we go through "phases" where we'll discuss something, get bored of it and not mention it for a few weeks/months, then something happens and we'll bring it up again.

So, like, it may have been brought up several times, but I don't think it's been ever really been discussed "in depth" and I don't think it's been discussed recently at that?

(SO awesome how we can't even keep track what we discuss on our own blog).

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I'm not sure if you've discussed this before or if it's on your veto list. What did you think of Lea Michele and Cory Monteith's relationship? Real or fake? I think it's obvious to say it was just to promote Glee, but did you have an opinion on whether they were really together or were just together for the cameras?

It's not exactly vetoed so much as it is something we're not particularly inclined to get into.

All we'll say is just that there were a lot of inconsistencies in their relationship. 

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Were you guys frustrated by the mixed messages Glee gave in season 2's Blame It On the Alcohol, where it condemned underage drinking and glorified underage drinking/kind of unhealthy drinking habits when the Glee club students drank to try to evade a morning hangover (in a public school too wtf glee?) in the same episode? Sorry if this is kind of a blast from the past kind of question but I was curious about your perspective on that episode.

Kinda sorta maybe?

Look, we've been drunk at some point in our lives. In fact we would probably actually encourage getting drunk at one point, just so you know what your limits are. Sometimes, you only know where the line is once you've crossed it.

I've gotten drunk. I hated the hangover the next day, vowed "never again" and promptly didn't touch alcohol again for another four months.

I'm glad I did, because now I know when to cut myself off. I know what the consequences are if I cross the limit. I know no matter what, the hangover is not worth it the next morning, so I'm pretty strict actually about cutting myself off.

So, Glee did it well in that there was a sense of "there are consequences of when you drink too much". I cringed at Will Schuester's voicemail, and while Rachel Berry's "power through it!!" was comical, the vomiting that followed shortly after from Pierce and Lopez (right??) was not.

So it showed the consequences really well. Your actions have consequences, don't do it. That's fine. That's all good.

But Glee wasn't content at leaving it at that, and that's where we kinda have an issue with it. Glee became too preachy. The audience could see for themselves that getting drunk has negative consequences. We didn't really have to be told it because we saw it for ourselves: the vomiting on stage, the embarrassing voicemail, etc. We got the message: getting drunk is bad.

If Glee had left it at that, if they were content with knowing the audience came to their own conclusions, that'd be fine. Glee's audience isn't dumb, though the writers seem to insist they are.

Glee's mistake, as we said, was become preachy - Schuester's "sobriety" afterwards was eye-roll worthy. They were kids. But they knew they had made a mistake. They could figure it out for themselves. Schuester just seemed to enforce a message the audience and the Glee Club had already gotten.

The Glee Club would - and to an extent, should - have just came to the conclusion by themselves that excess drinking wasn't worth the consequences. They experienced the consequences. We got it! They got it!

Neither the audience nor the Glee club needed to be told about it as well, so it felt cheapened and "preachy".

Cross your limits, once, just so you know where your limits are. You'll know what you can or cannot tolerate after that. You know what you'll want to tolerate as well. Once you've had one hangover, or gotten drunk once, I really do believe that you're not really inclined to particularly want to do that again. You know. Afterwards, you get to decide whether you want to be hungover the next day or not. Whether the hangover is worth the extra Tequila shot or not.

Basically: go out! Drink! Have fun! Get drunk, once, but ideally do it in a controlled environment, and do it so you know whether or not it's really worth it.

I decided really, really quickly being a killer headache and a craving for a greasy Cheeseburger wasn't really worth the extra Tequila shot. But I'm not going to impose my limits on someone else. Just... go do it, live with the consequences, and decide for yourself if it's worth a repeat or not. 

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I apologize if you have answered this question already. How do you think Rachel would react to finding out Quinn slept with Santana, twice?

Discussed it right here. :)

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So,if they indeed came back and contacted you,with pictures,you wouldn't post it, would you?

Depends on various factors:

1. What is in the pictures?2. Are the pictures "exclusive" (i.e. did they just send the pictures to us or did other blogs or individuals get them as well?)3. Can the authenticity of the pictures be verified? That's important for us in terms of credibility. We wouldn't want to post something as an "exclusive" and then it turns out it's just someone who is super talented at Photoshop or whatever.4. Do we have permission to post said pictures?5. Does this blog unanimously agree to post said pictures? Since the blog is run by more than one person, we would all have to agree before it gets posted. If one person vetoes the decision, then the pictures wouldn't be posted.

So, like, it's complicated and depends on a lot of things.