Discipline, too.

Overheard Everywhere | That's What You Took Away from That Lifetime Movie?:

"Young woman: I mean, bulimia is easy! But anorexia? That takes willpower!

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Overheard by: Mandy"

Indeed.

Overheard in New York | And It Looked Funny, 'cause They All Had Mustaches:

"Child: I turned on the channel and then mommy started yelling 'no, no, turn it off!'
Mother: She found a porn channel.
Child: I liked it, because everyone was kissing.

--Penn Station"

Teacher/Student Win.

texts from last night:

"(972): some kid came into the principals office and tried to explain what he was sent there for through interpretive dance."

Comedical Roundup.

Knowledge is Power.

"Hi. My name is Chubby..."


George Clooney's new girlfriend is cool. Wonder Woman Tshirt for the win.

Total Facebook Fail.

Religious Roundup.

Appropriate Response.

Why agnosticism rules.

The basic argument.

The logic tools.

All you really need.

God's self appointed representatives on Earth.

Tuff-N-Uff Event - Women's MMA - Pics.

Awesome fight pics. Also kinda hot.

Via Sherdog: Tuff-N-Uff Tuff Girls Results, Fight Card, News, Videos, Pictures, and more

Joyous Genius.

Heard about this over vacation. Lives up to the hype actually. Gives me a glimmer of hope for humanity. Way fun.

Massive dance-number wedding entrance - Boing Boing

Yeah... if you don't know you're lying, it's still a lie.

Fred On Everything:

"I love it. The following is an account of Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talking to Albert Jazeera:

“When asked why the United States was not in FATA despite having the knowledge that Al Qaeda was present there, he [Admiral Mullen] said, ‘Because FATA is in Pakistan and Pakistan is a sovereign country and we don’t go into sovereign countries.’”

Hahn? The hell we don’t. What was this buoyant cannibal thinking? The US loves to go into sovereign countries. It hardly does anything else. I suppose Iraq wasn’t sovereign. It isn’t now, but it was. How about Panama, Laos, Cambodia,? We gave Pakistan, until recently sovereign, the choice of inviting us to kill its people with drones, or else be bombed into the Stone Age. Recently we have bombed Somalia, technically sovereign.

When the Pentagon’s alpha-floater says something so transparently nonsensical, so patently false, one wonders: Is he merely lying, or does he somehow actually believe this stuff? I mean, drugs are supposed to be discouraged by the Navy..."

Thinking things through.

"You mean you keep an animal in captivity? For no reason? That's barbaric."

Logic!

Only you.

Having spent the last 3 weeks hip deep in familial relations and reminders of such, this is worth remembering.

Tony Horton's Blog Spot: It's You!:

"It's not your mother or your father. Not your sister or your brother. It's not your God or your Government. It's not the high school bully or your eighth grade home room teacher. It's not your therapist or your wife or your boyfriend. It's not luck or even circumstance. It's not your height, weight or age that makes life great, or not. It's You! It's you that makes you happy or sad. It's you that makes you smart or stupid. It's you that eats right or not. It's you that chooses to exercise or to sit on your ass..."

Political Philosophy 101.

For the more cynical among us. Yes, me included. Shut it.

The Agitator » Blog Archive » Don’t Question, Just Believe:

"I guess we could start with the assumption that politicians always, or even mostly, act in the interest of the public, instead of the interests of politicians. They don’t. There’s the assumption that the skills and talents it takes to get elected are the same skills and talents one needs to govern effectively. They aren’t. There’s the assumption that any one person or even any group of people has even a fraction of the collected wisdom distributed over the course of billions of voluntary exchanges that make up an $11 trillion economy. They don’t. There’s the assumption that even if such a freakishly smart person existed, that person would also possess the political skills necessary to rise to become powerful enough to actually impart his wisdom to the people who can turn it into policy. And then there’s the assumption that even if said freakishly smart person could rise to have the president’s ear, that his advice would be heeded by Congress, and not corrupted, diluted, or merely subverted by special interests and the whims, turf wars, and power plays of politicians in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

I could go on."

Saturated Fat is Fine.

Seriously.
[Much more at the link.]

Is Saturated Fat Healthy? | Mark's Daily Apple:

"...The result is a deeply ingrained systemic assumption that saturated fat is evil, bad, dangerous, and sinful, a preconceived notion that precludes any meaningful dialogue from taking place. Everyone “knows” that saturated fat clogs your arteries – that’s treated as a given – and attempting to even question that assumption gets you lumped in the crazy category. After all, if you start from such a “fundamentally incorrect position,” how can the rest of your argument be trusted? Thus, talk of the superior cardiovascular health of the Tokelau (with their 50% dietary saturated fat intake) or the Masai (with their diet of meat, blood, and milk) or the Inuit (with their ancestral diet of high-blubber animals) is all disregarded or ignored. If they even deign to listen to the facts, they’ll acknowledge the existence of healthy populations eating tons of saturated fat while muttering something about “genetic adaptation” or “statistical outliers.” It’s all hogwash, and it’s infuriating, especially when there’s so much literature refuting the saturated fat hypothesis..."

Philosophical genius.

texts from last night:

"(305): If God's watching us, we might as well be entertaining"

Look! Up in the Sky!

Perspective Win.

texts from last night:

"(859): While she was crying about breaking up, he looked at her through his fork and said 'of course she's upset, she's in jail.' Having sex with him tonight."

Teaching!

texts from last night:

"(704): One of my students just wrote an essay on how ninjas, like drug addicts, must realize they need help before they can get better...I gave it an A+"

texts from last night:

"(334): I told a kindergarten student that candy canes are bones of reject elves."

Planning.

Overheard in New York | What's Your Feeling on HIV, Then?:

"Hipster girl: I didn't know you smoked.
Hipster guy: Yeah. I know it's bad for me, but I really don't want to be old.

--Broadway & Broome"

Self Awareness.

texts from last night:

"(918): Five things that make you perfect. Go.
(1-918): The skin of a dead hooker. The blood of the innocent. The soul of a kitten. The hat from cat in the hat. And sunglasses."

Back online, back in Japan for one more, final, year...

The internets has apparently continued on unabated in my absence. Probably a poignant commentary on mortality there, but I'll use my well honed powers of denial to avoid such observation.

Further updates as I catch up with things...