In composing a song list like this, the goal is to make it as universal as possible while covering an entire decade of music in just ten songs. Of course, that can be quite challenging. Additionally, as a rock and roll site, we aim to focus primarily on rock songs. However, as a history site, we are also keenly aware that many of our readers are in their 50s, 60s, and 70s and were either kids or teenagers during that decade. For many of us, our first love may have occurred at 15 or 16 years old, or perhaps younger The post Ten 70s Songs That May Remind You Of Your First Love appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate Is Cooking Up a Second Season By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on December 5, 2024 Credit: HBO Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: HBO Max announced today that they’ve ordered a second season of its HBO original series, the Spanish-language Like Water for Chocolate. The series, according to the company, is the most-watched Latin American content worldwide and was one of the top three most-watched series on the platform during its premiere month. “It’s been incredible to see such an important Mexican story resonate with audiences around the world,” executive producer Salma Hayek Pinault said in a statement. “We are thrilled to confirm a second season of Like Water for Chocolate and are looking forward to giving closure to such a strong and powerful story.” “This second season of the series will complete the story, fusing essential aspects of Mexican culture, such as magical realism and gastronomy, acting as forms of expression and connection,” Warner Bros. Discovery executive Mariano Cesar added. “These themes are developed from a female perspective, in which the questioning of social and family mandates reinforces the current relevance of the narrative.”  The second season of the series will see the return of the protagonists: Irene Azuela, Azul Guaita, Ana Valeria Becerril, Andrea Chaparro, as well as the male leads Andrés Baída and Louis David Horné. No news yet on when the second season of the show will go into production. The first season is currently streaming on Max. [end-mark] The post <i>Like Water for Chocolate</i> Is Cooking Up a Second Season appeared first on Reactor.

The Left Cheers An Assassination

With morbid and grotesque glee, former Washington Post journalist and leftist extremist Taylor Lorenz cheered the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a Bluesky post on Wednesday. A post that was followed up with a stream of posts both from her and others justifying the cold-blooded murder and a thinly veiled suggested that the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association should be targeted for death too. Lorenz’s comments about killing healthcare industry CEOs started with a quoted post from the left-wing More Perfect Union reporting that “Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.” To that report, Lorenz darkly commented: “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”     She even admitted that she associates with others who want to see CEOs murdered in targeted killings when she shared an image of a smiling anthropomorphic star giving two thumbs up with balloons touting “CEO DOWN,” adding: “Woke up to see this spammed in my group chats.” She also shared a variant of the imagine which celebrated “Healthcare Executive DOWN!”     Her post was followed up with a slew of reposts hyping unhinged and demonic comments about the assassination. “Every day companies like this look millions of suffering, injured, sick and dying people directly in the eye and tell them to go fuck their mother,” one post said. She also reported a comment from leftist reporter Ken Klippenstein, who proclaimed: “Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson” with a graph purporting to show UHC denied 32 percent of claims. “People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering,” Lorenz tried to excuse the death porn she was sharing. Despite all the posts cheering and justifying the Thompson’s murder, she tried to suggest she wasn’t for it. “As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it,” she said. Hours later, Lorenz responded to another story about Blue Cross Blue Shield with the picture and name of CEO Kim A. Keck. Reminder, this was the same story she commented: “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.” Some five hours later, possibly because people were calling her out, Lorenz added a comment suggesting that what she actually wanted was for “people learn the names of all of these insurance company CEOs and engage in very peaceful letter writing campaigns so that they stop ruthlessly murdering thousands of innocent Americans by denying coverage.” Lorenz’s post with the imagine of the BCBS CEO appears have since been deleted. But the internet is forever and NewsBusters has the screenshot.     In a Thursday post, Lorenz all but admitted that what she and others were engaging in was “calls for violence” when she huffed: So glad to see Fox News and LibsofTikTok condemning violence against healthcare CEOs. As we all know, the only acceptable calls for violence are against random gay teachers and trans people. If it wasn’t clear enough that Lorenz wanted to see those CEO dead, how about this headline from her Thursday article justifying the glee: “Why ‘we’ want insurance executives dead.” “No, that does not mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate,” she insanely argued. She tried to wash herself of her obvious calls for violence by suggesting she was using the “royal ‘we’”: Let me be super clear: my post uses the royal "we" and is explaining the public sentiment. It is not me personally saying "I want these executives dead and so we should kill them." I am explaining that thousands of Americans (myself included) are fed up with our barbaric healthcare system and the people at the top who rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering, and death on millions of innocent people. Our friend and former Washington Examiner journalist Jerry Dunleavy explained Lorenz’s latest antics best in this X post: “Taylor Lorenz sees an opening in the Dirtbag Left money printer machine apparatus and she is very focused in her efforts to secure that bag.”   Taylor Lorenz sees an opening in the Dirtbag Left money printer machine apparatus and she is very focused in her efforts to secure that bag. pic.twitter.com/ood5uSfKkp — Jerry Dunleavy IV ?? (@JerryDunleavy) December 5, 2024

On Thursday, CNN contributed to the liberal media smear campaign against Pete Hegseth by repeatedly passing along an insane Washington Post hit piece alleging President-Elect Trump’s secretary of defense pick “had a reputation as a heavy drinker” as per six anonymous former Fox News employees with one episode having come during — gasp! — a St. Patrick’s Day weekend segment! CNN shared it on three different shows between 5:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Eastern and, of course, chose to leave out when the specific incident occurred. Better yet, CNN seems to have forgotten it’s infamous history of debauchery and on-air drinking from New Year’s Eve from, say, 2018, 2019, and 2020 (or the infamous crotch kiss in 2012). First, behold the cartoonish Post article by reporters Michael Kranish, Dan Lamothe, Sarah Ellison and John Hudson working on behalf of the left, Pentagon establishment, and Republicans opposed to Hegseth: At Fox News, Hegseth had a reputation as a heavy drinker, according to six former Fox News employees who worked directly with Hegseth and saw him drinking on the job or visibly drunk at work events and who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Several years ago, during a St. Patrick’s Day segment on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” support staff at the cable news network set up a display of beers for a holiday segment on the show. After the segment aired, Hegseth walked by the display table and drank each beer, according to two former colleagues who witnessed the incident and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive episode. The incident struck the colleagues as jarring for two reasons: One, the displayed drinks had been sitting out for hours and were stale and warm; two, the show wraps up at 10 a.m., an early hour for alcohol consumption. CNN This Morning host Kasie Hunt brought it up on both hours of her show. In the first, she contrasted Hegseth “denying” to former colleague Megyn Kelly “that he has ever had a problem with excessive drinking” with a heavy “but” as if to suggest he was lying because of The Post “cit[ing] several employees from his time as a Fox News host that seemed to undercut those claims.”     Hunt’s second hour read the same, adding after quoting the anonymous sources that Hegseth “denied the reports when he was asked for comment by The Washington Post, but he is clearly aware of how central the issue of alcohol has become to his confirmation.” Interesting the story never provides specificity other than consuming beers already laid out for a St. Patrick’s Day segment...which all the CNN segments ignored. So, they’re worried about that being a hit to someone’s fitness to serve in government, but that never stopped CNN from letting Don Lemon becoming so drunk in 2016 he consented to having an ear pierced. A hushed tone about all this game in CNN News Central’s first hour with co-host Kate Bolduan and Trumpworld correspondent Kristen Holmes:     Holmes bragged about this as some albatross as though the press became devout Baptists or Mormons: “So, again, not the starting point you want when you’re on TV defending yourself and defending your drinking, and these reports obviously allege a drinking problem.” Two hours later, co-host John Berman brought it up again as “new developments” and Holmes returning to tout the “allegations swirling” about Hegseth and alcoholism (click “expand”): BERMAN: New developments as Pete Hegseth fights to hold on to his nomination for defense secretary. He arrived on capitol hill just a short time ago as new reporting from The Washington Post cites six former Fox News employees who say they witnessed him drinking at questionable moments. They say Hegseth “had a reputation as a heavy drinker,” and they say they saw him “drinking on the job or visibly drunk at work events.” CNN has learned that Hegseth has faced questions from senators, including are you an alcoholic? Are you a womanizer? And did you embezzle money? (....) HOLMES: But as you noted, there are a lot of allegations swirling around now, particularly involving his drinking. We expect that to come up again when he’s on the Hill today. He did address this in an interview yesterday. Here’s what he said first of all, I’ve never had a drinking problem. [HEGSETH-KELLY CLIP] HOLMES: Of course, the other thing to keep in mind here is that — is that Hegseth is meeting with a series of various senators today, Donald Trump’s going to be watching closely. We’ll see if he still believes that Hegseth can get confirmed by the end of the day BERMAN: Yeah. Also saying that he won’t drink at all if he is confirmed as defense secretary, which is an interesting promise. Fast-forward to the noon Eastern hour’s Inside Politics and Dana Bash held it up as “put[ting] some meat on the bone here” of this alleged narrative about Hegseth being a drunk. After reading the key Post passage, she admitted “Hegseth’s attorney Timothy Parlatore very clearly denied those claims and pointed to on the record Fox employees who supported and do support um his nomination and say that that didn’t happen.” Though her name wasn’t on the byline, Post congressional correspondent Marianna Sotomayor weighed in (click “expand”): CNN really had a two-minute discussion of The Washington Post story expressing horror at @PeteHegseth for having consumed beer during a Fox & Friends segment *about St. Patrick's Day* pic.twitter.com/7QjgM7ho5V — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 5, 2024 SOTOMAYOR: And Hegseth himself behind closed doors talking to senators as well as a little pit stop in the House yesterday, also said the same things. I am not an alcoholic. that is what he is telling these senators — seems like some Republican senators have welcomed that specifically, the promise that Hegseth is making to them, which is I also will not be drinking on the job. I will not be drinking if I am confirmed as defense secretary, so that is pretty significant — maybe could move the needle, but there’s still so many other questions. And, you know to Kristen’s reporting about right now, there aren’t any hard no’s. Well, there could be at a certain point and, like we have all been saying, all eyes are truly on Senator Joni Ernst. If she is going to decide to go against him, I think you’re going to probably see the likes of Senator Lisa Murkowski, possibly Susan Collins as well, come out against him. Here’s the thing. The margin is 53, right? So you could lose three senators and Vance could be that breaking tie to confirm Hegseth on the floor, so there’s still a pathway. It’s not impossible. There’s still a pathway. BASH: And again, she is on the Armed Services Committee, which means that she would be part of not necessarily the vetting, but — but the questioning and the first line of advise and consent which the Founding Fathers put in the Constitution. On New Year’s Eve 2018, CNN had drunk co-hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen toss to correspondent Randi Kaye, who was on a marijuana-fueled buss in Denver. A year later and with what now know was a rapidly spreading coronavirus in China, Lemon and then-colleague Brooke Baldwin got sloppy drunk with the former insisting he’s going to “lean in harder” and “fight” more in 2010 with Baldwin somewhat coherently claiming she’s gonna try to be her “best self.” That same year, Cohen and Cooper suffered the giggle fits when Cheri Oteri surfaced as a pretend Barbara Walters. And, in 2020 going into 2021, Cohen had his meltdown about Bill de Blasio and also joined Cooper in giddily asking Snoop Dogg to describe places he’s gone while high on marijuana. To see the relevant CNN transcripts from December 5, click here (for CNN This Morning) and here (for CNN News Central and Inside Politics).

The University of Michigan announced Thursday that it was ending its use of DEI statements in faculty hiring. This decision — recommended in late October by an eight-member faculty working group and inevitable in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29, 2023, ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC banning race-based college admission — is sure to disappoint the multitudes of leftists who rallied on campus Monday in support of continued funding for DEI initiatives. The working group noted in its final recommendations document that while DEI statements have been used at the university for several years, they should no longer be solicited as part of faculty hiring and consideration for promotion, citing feedback from nearly 2,000 faculty members and policies at peer institutions. "Critics of diversity statements perceive them as expressions of personal identity traits, support of specific ideology or opinions on socially relevant issues, and serve as a 'litmus test' of whether a faculty member's views are politically acceptable," wrote the working group. "Thus, as currently enacted, diversity statements have the potential to limit viewpoints and reduce diversity of thought among faculty members." While willing to give the DEI statements the boot in theory, the working group found a way to keep the "values of DEI" alive, recommending that applicants should incorporate DEI content into teaching, research, and service statements. 'Students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics.' The university did not enact this second recommendation. "Diversity, equity, and inclusion are three of our core values at the university. Our collective efforts in this area have produced important strides in opening opportunities for all people," Laurie McCauley, the provost of the university, said in a statement Thursday. "As we pursue this challenging and complex work, we will continuously refine our approach." "I'm grateful for this faculty committee, which spent months soliciting feedback from across campus, evaluating our methods and determining the best course forward," added McCauley. Leftists on campus are evidently upset over the potential loss of the divisive and counterproductive tool for indoctrination and gatekeeping. After all, it has been a reliable cash cow that has kept numerous radicals employed. The New York Times Magazine reported in October that the university had blown nearly $250 million on DEI since 2016. The result: an environment where internal polling reportedly indicated that "students were less likely to interact with people of a different race or religion or with different politics" and the creation of "a powerful conceptual framework for student and faculty grievances — and formidable bureaucratic mechanisms to pursue them." 'Some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors.' A 2021 Heritage Foundation report indicated that Michigan had the largest DEI staff of any major public university on multiple measures, with hundreds of people formally tasked with providing DEI services. The Times indicated that whereas other universities have seen theirs shrink, Michigan's DEI bureaucracy has actually grown in recent years such that the number of employees operating in DEI-related offices or with "diversity, "equity," or "inclusion" in their job titles at its Ann Arbor campus has actually ballooned by 71% since the school kicked off "D.E.I. 2.0" in 2023. Those facing the potential loss of titles, jobs, and ideological dominance rallied on campus Monday to protest the possibility of a partial defunding of DEI initiatives at the university — something on which the board of regents is reportedly set to vote. Pragya Choudhary, among the protesters who attended the rally, which was organized by the senate advisory committee on university affairs, said, "The principles of DEI have positively impacted every person here, and with improvement, DEI initiatives can do even more, but without DEI initiatives, we will all suffer," reported the Michigan Daily. Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, an associate professor of American culture, said, "Unlike those who claim DEI here at the University of Michigan has done nothing, my critique is we haven't done enough." Ali Mazrui, a SACUA member and African studies associate chair, suggested that by defunding the race-obsessed programs, the board was surrendering to the incoming Trump administration: "We in faculty government would prefer that the Regents saw themselves as representing us and the people of the state rather than bowing prematurely to a government that is likely to be hostile to DEI. … Acquiescing too early, too easily, without protest, is the way that totalitarian governments come to power." "The Regents were interested in potentially doing away with the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring," Kevin Cokley, the psychology department's associate chair for diversity initiatives, told the Daily. "It is not a surprise to me that now there are some concerns about the potential dismantling of DEI initiatives at large." Sarah Hubbard, on the board of regents, said, "The national conversation has highlighted the need to be sure there are results and that all people are being represented under these DEI programs." A study published last week by the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University conclude that "while purporting to combat bias, some anti-oppressive DEI narratives can engender a hostile attribution bias and heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A beauty salon owner blasted supporters of President-elect Donald Trump as "hateful" and "misogynistic," and now she's saying her clients are "dropping like flies."Seems the hubbub, according to the New York Post, stems from a now-viral TikTok video from Tiffney Prickett, owner-operator of Voiage Salon in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.'I knew she was a Republican, which I don’t have a problem with you being a Republican. I have a problem with you wanting to strip human rights away from people. I will stand up for human rights and suffer those consequences.'“Trump basically gave small men the ability and the courage to be misogynistic and hateful and say s**t like ‘your body, my choice’ and ‘you won’t have a choice’ and ‘you will bear my child whether you like it or not,’” Prickett said in the video, according to the Post.“The comments are so gross. The things men say to women are so gross. And I don’t know why more men don’t come to the defense of women. I don’t know why men witness aggression towards women and stand idly by and do nothing. I don’t understand,” Prickett added, according to the paper.The 40-year-old divorced mother of three also declared that men usually “shrug [it] off” when another man is mistreating a woman, the Post said.“I don’t understand why more men don’t have the courage to stick up to [sic] these small men who think they can do whatever they want and say whatever they want to women. And I’m just f***ing sick of it,” she said, according to the paper.It's unclear why a business owner in a red state like Idaho took it upon herself to rip Trump supporters, but as you might expect, the backlash was brutal.In a subsequent video, Prickett had the following to say, according to the Post: “So this is me suffering the consequences of my own action. I just had a client send her husband into my salon and demand a refund for gift cards — pre-purchased — because of my stance that if you support a racist, homophobic, misogynist rapist, and you’re OK with those things because you supported them that you are in fact those things. And she was so offended by that, he said she did not feel comfortable coming to my salon anymore.”The paper said she added that "I didn’t want to deal with them anyway because I knew that that whole family were Trump supporters because I’ve been doing her for 15 years, I’ve been to her family functions and family events. She’s given me gifts over the years. She was a very good client." Prickett also said, “I knew she was a Republican, which I don’t have a problem with you being a Republican. I have a problem with you wanting to strip human rights away from people. I will stand up for human rights and suffer those consequences," according to the Post.Pushing back against commenters who said she was “wrong” and would “lose her business," the paper said Prickett shot back that "if I lose my business because … I posted a video that said if you support a racist, misogynist, homophobic rapist, and you’re OK with it, then you are those things, I guess I lose my business."The Post reported that another video shows Prickett saying "no" to a detractor who encouraged her to keep an open mind and engage in political dialogue across party lines. The paper said her reason is because the difference between Trump supporters and her is about "morals" rather than “opinion."In another video from last week, the Post said Prickett shared that she lost even more Trump-supporting clients, adding that "they’re dropping like flies.”The paper also noted that Prickett said she'd “rather go work at Chipotle” than allow Trump supporters to “feel comfortable” in her salon.The Post noted that since her video takes went viral, the website for Prickett’s Voiage Salon "no longer appears to be active."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A true cult hit is finally returning for more, as Moonlighter 2 has officially been revealed, some six years after the first. Daring merchant Will is back, and he's tackling even more complex dungeons this time around, thankfully with a few more tricks up his sleeve too. Continue reading Moonlighter 2 brings back the cult hit roguelike, bigger and better than ever

Developer Shiro Games has had hit after hit, especially when it comes to strategy and survival games with the likes of Northgard, Wartales, and Dune: Spice Wars under its belt. Now, the developer is tackling space once more, this time with the brand-new SpaceCraft, a massively multiplayer management and building game launching in 2025. Continue reading Starship-building MMO SpaceCraft revealed by Dune Spice Wars developer MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best management games, Best sandbox games, Best building games

Is Path of Exile 2 down? Dungeon crawling is the spice of life, but PoE 2’s servers crawling to a halt certainly isn’t. Troubleshooting network issues is a pain at the best of times, but it’s even worse when you and the homies are trying to jump back into Wraeclast for another loot-hunting session. Considering just how massive a release Path of Exile 2 is, there's every chance that Grinding Gears’ latest and greatest RPG might run into server issues from time to time. Fortunately, we’re here to update you on the latest PoE 2 server status. While you’re twiddling your thumbs waiting for PoE 2 to come back to life, read up on the best Path of Exile 2 classes - our comprehensive guides for each one are packed with all the tips and tricks you’ll need to master your craft. Continue reading Is Path of Exile 2 down? Current server status MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Path of Exile 2 Witch class guide, Path of Exile 2 preview, Path of Exile 2 release date