Today's Internets.

Cute Alert! This Boy and His Dog Are Inseparable | Photo Gallery - Yahoo!: "Awww! Photos of an adorable little boy and his equally adorable French Bulldog are taking the Internet by storm. The boy, Tasuku, and his dog, Muu, seem to be inseparable. The boy’s mother, Aya Sakai of Japan, has been posting images of the pair, earning herself a huge following on Facebook and Instagram. Click through to see the tiny twosome watching TV, sleeping, snacking and just being adorable."

Girl Kicked Out of School for Red(ish) Hair - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "Sporting hair that looks completely natural to the untrained eye, a ninth grade student was nonetheless sent home from class by the vice principal of Hurricane Middle School in Utah for violating the school’s dress code, which bans “extreme hairstyles and colors.” She was later permitted to return, although she did nothing to change the deep auburn color of her hair. The report is another addition to these gems from the past few weeks:  The high school student in Arizona that was suspended for having a picture of a gun on his computer. The 2nd grader who was suspended for playing with an imaginary grenade and “trying to save the world.” The five-year-old girl suspended for ten days for making “terroristic threats” with a Hello Kitty gun that shoots bubbles. If school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, what lessons are we teaching children by acting like this? Clearly, that obeying the letter of the law is far more important than getting an education or (God forbid!) expressing yourself."

Hate Obama's Drone War? - By Rosa Brooks | Foreign Policy: "In a nutshell, the U.S. legal theory of sovereignty is this: "We have it; you don't.""

Still love this commercial.

Why It’s Time For Some People To Put Down The Race Card: "The chattering classes immediately began to try drumming up controversy based on the fact that the ad shows white people speaking with Jamaican accents. This silly critique shows what I consider to be a remarkable irony: in this effort to play the race card where it does not need to be played, these people show the same kind of ignorance that many of the racists they criticize are guilty of. My mother actually introduced me to this commercial on Facebook prior to the Super Bowl. She loved it, and so did I. Most every other Jamaican I’ve seen has no problem with it. Yet we have Americans claiming offense on our behalf. Aside from the fact that the Jamaicans themselves generally have no issues with this ad, there are a couple of other reasons why the “racist” calls are nothing short of pure fuckery...

Our national motto is “Out of many, one people”. We take that seriously, and I don’t appreciate watching idiots in the media subvert it in order to drum up needless controversy. In this episode we see the limits of the race card and how it can be played. So quick have certain progressives and supposed anti-racists come to play the card that they now begin to show the same level of ignorance and offensive generalization their more racialist opponents are said to be guilty of. They place artificial divisions among peoples based on their own incomplete understandings of them, and in doing so foster some of the very division they claim to be fighting. In working so hard not to offend, they end up being more offensive."

What if the world ended while you were at brunch? Watch It's a Disaster: "Check out the very first trailer for apocalypse comedy It's a Disaster, starring Julia Stiles and David Cross doing what he does best (being insanely awkward). The movie asks, what if you had to spend the last hours of your life stuck in an uncomfortable brunch date with a bunch of 30-year-olds?"

Dorner Manhunt Reveals Police Contempt for Public Safety - Reason.com: "“Simply put, the police culture in our country has changed,” argued former San Jose Police Chief Joe McNamara, a Hoover Institution scholar, in a Wall Street Journal article in 2006. “An emphasis on ‘officer safety’ and paramilitary training pervades today’s policing, in contrast to the older culture, which held that cops didn’t shoot until they were about to be shot or stabbed.” Murders are sadly routine in the Los Angeles area. The massive police presence was the result of the killer targeting their own, thus leading to the reasonable conclusion that police pulled out the stops not because the public was in danger but because they were in danger. I don’t blame police for their efforts, but I also understand why residents in, say, South Los Angeles, wondered why killings in their community don’t rate the same attention."

Could have used this the last few days...