How Not To Be a Dick to Your Vegetarian Friend
3. “How do you get protein?”If I said all I ate were Pop-tarts and banana milkshakes, someone might confess, “I ate four Snickers today.” But the minute I tell someone unfamiliar with vegetarianism that I don’t eat meat, they’re concerned with my nutrition intake. Protein, how can you possibly get it!?For the uninitiated, protein is in nearly everything. I get it in spinach, black beans, tofu, soymilk, nuts, and seeds. Humans in general eat twice the necessary amount of protein anyway, so a “lack of protein” isn’t my problem.However, I might be lacking in vitamin B-12, which is only found in animal protein. You can get pills for it, shots, or occasionally eat seafood to get what you need. Which brings me to my next point…
Zen Pencils Comic: 50. NEIL GAIMAN: Make good art
I am exceedingly thankful for this, my first Father’s Day. From the NICU to this moment I’ve never ceased to celebrate the joy my son has brought into the life of my wife and I. I love being a dad. #fatherhood #fathersday #family #knoxroxs #fathers #dads #fathersandsons #fatherandson
You are good at something, stop lying to yourself. You’re good at breaking down comic book plots, cooking ramen perfectly, making your friends happy, knowing the time without looking at a clock, getting the perfect ending at RPG’s, or figuring out the twist ending to movies. Don’t let society tell you your talents are meaningless because they don’t serve an economical purpose. Your talents reflect your interests and passions, and what’s important to you is important.
(Source: pandavalkyrie)
That Brave Face Of Yours
June 26th 2008 . “I shouldn’t be here, Dr. Williams.” . “It’s okay, Olive. You…you need to see this. If you’re planning on being a doctor someday…you need to see what you’re getting yourself in…
“My favorite heroes?
Are the ones that aren’t heroes all the time. “
Obama (2013) vs Biden (2006) re NSA surveillance
Yep. That’s a pretty stunning comparison.
(Source: Boing Boing)
This tendency was exemplified in the President’s speech, when he stated: ”We all know somebody — a family member, a friend, a neighbor — who has struggled or will struggle with mental health issues at some point in their lives.”
Note the construction of the sentence: “We all know somebody – a family member, a friend, a neighbor – who has struggled with mental illness.” The person with mental illness here is always someone else. They are always removed from ourselves. They are the people we help, the people we are sad for, the people we want to save. The people who are sick, the people who are hurting, the people with the problems – they are categorically not us. They are other.
They are, moreover, specifically not the implied audience of the sentence. The implied audience is the people who “know somebody’ with a mental illness. Obama probably wanted to evoke sympathy for people with mental illnesses. But in doing so, he reinforced the trope of the mentally ill as the “other” – as people who aren’t worth speaking to, and about, directly. Despite the fact that one in five Americans suffer, or will suffer, from a mental illness, and thus make up a fairly sizeable portion of the audience.
Thing is, I do actually know a family member, a friend AND a neighbor who has struggled with mental health issues. You know who else has struggled with mental health issues?
Me.
