Relaxed Focus: "But on this page..."

That's pretty hilarious. - Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel Sing "Confrontation" from Les Miserables

"Men of Tumblr, I’m counting on you to make this one good."

You know you're pretty jacked when you pop a vein in your biceps singing. Also, funny. - Hugh Jackman Sings About The Challenges Of Playing Wolverine:

"The folks at BBC Radio 1's The Matt Edmondson Show convinced Jackman to sing a Wolverine-themed number to the tune of "Who Am I?" from Les Misérables."

Lovely. Sure to end well. Now Airport Employees Are Being Trained To Spot Sex Traffickers - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

"Concessions workers at the Atlanta International Airport are being trained in how to spot sex traffickers and victims. One employee, Gary Norris, told wsbtv.com that before the training, he would just come in and do his job. "But now," Norris says, "you look at people, how they carry their bag or (are) walking, the expressions on their face—do they look fearful, do they look terrified?"

...Because it's not enough to have Transportation Security Administration officials watching your every move suspiciously: now the guy behind the Jamba Juice counter and the gal making your Auntie Em's pretzel will be side-eyeing you at the airport, too. Wonderful...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Wins Everything.

Neil deGrasse Tyson likes to dance from imjustanape on Vimeo.

I'm tired of shows where the 'good guys' torture people. "How cop shows help build public support for police violence."

"Do What You Gotta Do": Cop Shows Bolster Idea That Police Violence Works:

"Within a minute and a half of the first episode, the show has summed up its central message: Police violence works. This is relayed again and again throughout the series: When a cop with a chain-wrapped fist savagely beats a Spanish-speaking suspect demanding an attorney until he relinquishes a tip; when officers debase the idea of policing without intent to arrest; when cops round up black non-criminals and deliver them to precinct torture chambers. In every episode, these methods achieve the desired ends. The message: Police violence works...

By far the most well-known CPD scandal involves the systematic use of torture. From 1972 to 1991, officers brutally tortured more than 100 detained men and boys, all black, by, among many other things, burning cigarettes on their bodies, beating their faces with a flashlight and emitting powerful volts of electricity with cattle prods to their genitals. After the news of torture broke more than two decades ago, it was also revealed that a whole crew of higher-ups had turned a blind eye to the widespread maltreatment. When a medical examiner for one of the first few abuse cases demanded a superintendent of police investigate the abuse, the buck was passed off to the state attorney, whose office essentially sat on the allegations as a culture of torture proliferated for more than a decade. Meanwhile, CPD Cmdr. John Burge personally sanctioned and participated in the torture of a number of men."

Wil Wheaton on bullying, compassion, and being a nerd. | WIL WHEATON dot NET:

"When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It’s not about what you said. It’s not about what you did. It’s not about what you love. It’s about them feeling bad about themselves. They feel sad. They don’t get positive attention from their parents. They don’t feel as smart as you. They don’t understand the things that you understand. Maybe one of their parents is pushing them to be a cheerleader or a baseball player or an engineer or something they just don’t want to do. So they take that out on you because they can’t go and be mean to the person who’s actually hurting them.

So, when a person is cruel to you like that, I know that this is hard, but honestly the kind and best reaction is to pity them. And don’t let them make you feel bad because you love a thing...

I know it’s really hard in school when you’re surrounded by the same 400 people a day that pick on you and make you feel bad about yourself. But there’s 50,000 people here this weekend who went through the exact same thing—and we’re all doing really well. So don’t you ever let a person make you feel bad because you love something they decided is only for nerds. You’re loving a thing that’s for you."