"Compassion isn't weakness, kindness isn't naivete..."

Buffy, still awesome.

 Hullabaloo: "I am an atheist myself so I suppose I should be sympathetic to Maher and Harris here, but I'm not because because it's an irrational intellectually nonsensical point of view. There are 1.6 billion Muslims in this world. And a few thousand of them --- hell it could be a few hundred thousand of them --- are members of the extremist fringe that wreaking havoc in the middle east and causing everyone else to pee their pants. Nobody disputes that these particular Muslims are assholes. But you can't blame the religion itself when there are more than a billion adherents who aren't killing anybody and don't want to kill anybody. As Affleck says, they're just going about their lives, trying to do their best for their kids, working, praying, screwing --- everything everyone does. If Islam is an inherently violent religion, then more than a billion of its believers don't seem to be getting the word. It's infuriating. Do we condemn all of Christianity because of Operation Rescue? Is it ok to condemn all of Judaism because of the violent right wing settlers? Is Buddhism inherently violent because some Buddhist monks in Myanmar and killing people left and right? It's not as if we haven't seen exactly the same behavior among humans forever for entirely secular, avaricious, tribal, egomaniacal, nationalistic reasons. This is what we do! That this particular group of human assholes has seized upon religion for their justification for it is meaningless. It's always something."

  

Squat. Press. Pull.: ""Zeke just got home from the vet — being allergic to certain grasses, he broke out in hives and they gave him steroid and benadryl shots. This is Winston, loving and taking care of him""

Why do you think that Wonder Woman is such a strong symbol for the feminist movement? - APE IN A CAPE: "The same way, perhaps, reading about X-men might give people who feel like outsiders a sense of family, or reading about Superman might give people a feeling of control and power, I think Wonder Woman says, you can stand up for yourself and others and it’s not wrong. Compassion isn’t weakness, kindness isn’t naivete, you know, these are lovely messages for a lot of people, including me." 

  

Minding your mitochondria: Dr. Terry Wahls at TEDxIowaCity - YouTube: "Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of her wheelchair."