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(via Miles Morales News - Comic Vine)

I’m thrilled to be able to show Tito, my son, a Spider-Man whose last name is Morales. Call me selfish, but I think that’s wonderful.

The couple say they do not feel like pioneers in the gentrification of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the neighborhood in central Brooklyn that traces its African-American roots to the early 19th century and has been the borough’s black cultural capital for decades.¶ “We just feel so lucky to be in such a vibrant neighborhood,” Ms. Enck said.

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.

When Earl Ray, a Pima Indian who lives near Phoenix, switched to a more traditional native diet of mesquite meal, tepary beans, cholla buds and chaparral tea, he dropped from 239 pounds to less than 150 and brought his severe diabetes under control without medication.

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chuckgroenink:

Here are the dwarves from the Hobbit. I had been sketching them as warm up drawings the past week or so and liked the way they turned out. So here they are a bit gussied up.
The reason I drew these and risked being compared to Sam Bosma was because the people making the new Hobbit films had released some pictures of the cast. And I rather disliked most of them (I like Bofur and Bombur, but the rest of them look like a cross between Scandinavian hard rockers and klingon cosplayers), so I wanted to know how I thought they should perhaps look.

Am I seriously being asked to sign a petition in favor of more privileges for overprivileged youth?

The logo for the symposium was offensive, in my view, as it showed outlines of clearly northern European Caucasians. So far, in all of the photos I’ve seen from the symposium, I haven’t seen any dark-skinned people.

If you accept the notion that no one knows what to eat these days since they’re bombarded with conflicting nutritional advice at every turn, then the several hundred people who attended this past weekend’s Ancestral Health Symposium in Los Angeles must be an exception to that as they seem to have a handle on it.

"93. Develop a way to program that requires no scripting or coding." Bad advice. Unrealistic.

"44. Continue your research in voice recognition." Bad advice. Still irrelevant.

20. Tap the move toward push media by creating a network computer. Bad advice. Probably the most dated piece of advice on the list.

A generation bred on a diet of excessive consumerism and bombarded by advertising had been unleashed, he added. “Where we used to be defined by what we did, now we are defined by what we buy. These big stores are in the business of tempting [the consumer] and then suddenly these people find they can just walk into the shop and have it all.”

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(via EXAMPLES OF CARTOONS BASED ON RULES 1-4) via @randomwalks

Psychedelic drug intoxication is a high-reward state, whereas meditation is generally a low-reward state. Drugs can cause a feeling of oneness that is similar to what a person can experience while meditating, but they lack the ability to increase reward sensitivity and restore a constructive relationship with everyday life.

If you aren’t willing or able to eat mostly home cooked food made from basic ingredients, as every healthy culture does, you will have to accept a higher likelihood of fat gain and disease.

When he wants to be, the president is a brilliant and moving speaker, but his stories virtually always lack one element: the villain who caused the problem, who is always left out, described in impersonal terms, or described in passive voice, as if the cause of others’ misery has no agency and hence no culpability.

Sell all you want, I’ll be buying this week.

Some of the congressional Republicans who are preventing action to help the economy are simply intellectual primitives who reject modern economics on the same basis that they reject Darwin and climate science. Others are obviously cynical, desiring the worst possible economy as an aid to recapturing the White House and Senate in 2012. Still others simply do not believe that government action can ever be a force for good at any time or in any way. Whatever their motivations, there is something terribly sad about desperate and unemployed Americans looking for rescue to a party that lacks any inclination to alleviate their misery.

Several blogs and gay and lesbian publications are now picking up the story, but the heavy hitters who usually kill for hero stories like this, have remained silent.

They hold your name hostage. It’s like identity theft. What the hell? I’m not gonna pay ‘em. They’re like, “It’ll cost you $50,000 for your name.” F you! I don’t have to pay for my name.

latenightjimmy:

Late night tUnE-YarDs played “Gangsta” with Questlove and Black Thought and you need to see this. Weeeeeooooooweeeeooooweeeeooooo.