Legit Cosplay.

If you feel sad, here's a bunny eating a flower. 

Wait, DOS has a tumblr?  Kids these days...  U.S. Department of State: 

 Legit.  WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR — Genius cosplay.

"Not every Wednesday." - Jim Jefferies' dad.

"Not a Tonight Show Story" with Jim Jefferies (from Joe Rogan Experience #473)

Morning links: Berkeley out-Berkeleys Berkeley - The Washington Post: "Berkeley tells medical pot dispensaries that they must give free marijuana to the poor. Or as my college Reid Wilson put it: It’s the most Berkeley story ever."

Bones | MORNING, COMPUTER: "Sometimes it feels like the last fifteen years of my life have been a fight against exhaustion.  Eventually the exhaustion will win.  But not yet.  Not fucking yet." 

Texts from Star Trek: The Next Generation:

Every time.

Training - "Our bodies reflect who we are, what we think of ourselves, and how we feel toward others."

7/11 - squats 

T Nation | Phoenix Theory: "No one needed to "fat shame" me. I fat shamed myself. How did I get this way? I'd gotten in pretty good shape in high school. But in the three years that followed I'd fallen apart: no training of any type coupled with out-of-control eating habits. I was a sloppy mess. Standing there with my shirt off I felt humiliated, but I really didn't need to worry: I was invisible. Paradoxically, that's what being fat does to a person. The fatter you get, the more socially invisible you become, especially to the opposite sex. Our bodies reflect who we are, what we think of ourselves, and how we feel toward others. Your physique is your message to the world, the first message people will hear when they meet you... perhaps even the loudest message. My body was telling people I was lazy and stupid."

 Slack's Greatest Rivalries: Willie Pep versus Sandy Saddler | FIGHTLAND: "Against the average boxer or puncher, Pep would circle the ring, normally to his left, and wait for his opponent to follow. When they did, Pep would step in and land a stiff punch on their snout. It was simple, but he turned it into an art form."

Slack's Greatest Rivalries: Willie Pep versus Sandy Saddler | FIGHTLAND: "Pep stiff arms Saddler's chest to prevent Saddler from stepping in, then lands a crisp 1-2, angles off to his left side and comes in with a southpaw left hook. Just beautiful work."

Hercules, then and now.  Steve Reeves and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

Bodybuilding.com - Body Transformation: Matt Hart Turned Tragedy Into Triumph:

Training - "Success... comes down to this: Focus & Effort. And we control both."

7/10 - chins, dips, neutral grip chins - stretch

Bodybuilding.com - Body Transformation: Derek Harberts Cut Fat On A Hypertrophy Power Plan:

"I try to remember that people..."

"... aren't coming from a shitty place, normally.  They just don't know how to communicate to me in a way that won't make me feel cynical and hate them." - Hannibal Buress

Thailand’s Junta Arrests an Editor Over a Facebook Comment | TIME: "Thailand’s ruling junta set another disturbing precedent over the weekend after arresting a magazine editor in retaliation for comments he published on his Facebook page on July 4. In his message, Thanapol Eawsakul, the editor of Fah Diew Khan magazine, said that military authorities had instructed him to refrain from making critical remarks about the junta. He was taken into custody the following day by soldiers clothed in civilian attire."

Here's the Lawless Hellscape Colorado Has Become Six Months After Legalizing Weed - Mic: "In March alone, taxed and legal recreational marijuana sales generated nearly $19 million, up from $14 million in February. The state has garnered more than $10 million in taxes from retail sales in the first four months — money that will go to public schools and infrastructure, as well as for youth educational campaigns about substance use...

By removing marijuana penalties, the state is estimated to save somewhere between $12 million and $40 million, according to the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 42.1% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January. This is compared to the same period last year, a time frame encompassing Jan. 1 through May 31. Violent crime in general is down almost 2%, and major property crimes are down 11.5% compared to the same period in 2013." 

How The Sexes Perceive Looks Differently | Chateau Heartiste: "Women project their charisma-induced arousal onto men. Men project their visually-induced arousal onto women. And where the streams of these two projections meet, confusion and frustration with the seemingly strange behavior of the opposite sex emerge...  Men hunger at the sight of women’s sexy bodies; women appreciate the sight of men’s masculine bodies (and then wonder if the man behind the body is interesting)

...While this formulation is by no means exclusive of overlap or exceptions, as a general rule it works well. A man with a good body is like a fine sculpture, or a technological wonder; enjoyable for women to admire and to uncover the artist’s or engineer’s intent, perhaps even going so far as to use the work of art for a solipsistic moment of self-reflection. A woman with a good body is art, but she is also a drug, stimulating instant desire in men that is like the human aesthetic sense distilled in raw form to its ancestral animal essence, whereby the object is not to admire, but to consume. Women can be stimulated to instant, wall-climbing desire as well, but it usually requires more… much more… than a muscular body. If you want to know what instant, insistent, existential female horniness looks like, go to high society parties and watch how they behave in the company of a famous or powerful man."