"I wanted to high-five someone, but no one else was awake."

Everything is going to be okay.

Figure out how much money you *need*, and get there, and while you're getting there and once you're there, act like you're rich. Seriously. Thanks, @ftrain, for the link.

Why are so many women willingly giving up their identities and letting their children take over? And are our children being overly coddled as a result?

Full-text transcript of President Obama's recent commencement speech at Arizona State University. This man can be downright inspiring.

The ones in the comments are better than the ones in the article. Laughed until I cr*ed y'all!

This must be the best children's show ever.

A blog featuring the best foods Americans ever invented.

"You can try to know, and own the fact that there are things you do not know, or you can be knowing, and hide your own ignorance with sideways shots of been-there done-that familiarity. You can understand that shit happens and try your best to keep things together and accomplish something against all odds — YOU CAN DANCE, as this album begins — or you can blow up the hospital just to show everyone that at any moment anywhere, a hospital can blow up for no fucking reason whatsoever."

"Technically, these photographs are beautifully constructed and each one shows us a distinctive human personality underneath the costumes. Does the objective gaze of the camera necessarily leave us trapped outside or is it possible for us to see some of ourselves in these people? Do these images estrange us from these Furries (featured today) or Cosplayers (featured next time)? Or do they allow us to recognize the creativity and craftsmanship of their work, the ways that they draw together personal mythology to move beyond the more mundane aspects of their everyday lives? What do you see when you look at these images?"

Check out the "Hobo Code" page.

A hobo is a migrant worker in the United States. Hoboes, tramps and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; and a bum neither travels nor works.

Stylistic changes in the Obama White House. "I've got to do something about these plates. I'm not really a plates kind of guy."

How a school like Yale fails to teach a person how to want to think for themselves and be true intellectuals, how to interact with people from other walks of life.

A nicely designed list of the words of the year. Seems like half are from the election. Can't say I've ever heard of a "fish pedicure," but there it is.

Pretty funny. Short. "Starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more..."

On the situation in Afghanistan and how, step-by-step and with troops we already have, we can start to fix it. "It's still winnable, but only just."

"America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world." A cautious but firm and thoughtful endorsement from an excellent publication.

"We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. "

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A great collection of neutral articles about the facts and possible effects of candidates' proposed tax plans.

"Grab Change by the Stem!"

"the Department of Health is considering plans to force tobacco manufacturers to sell their cigarettes in plain unbranded packets." "They'd be taking one of the most carefully branded products in the world, and de-branding it. And since they've already banned tobacco advertising, cancer sticks don't really have much else left except their branding. They'd be stripping them back to just their name, taste and cost."

How the two astronomical numbers most often thrown out by the intellectual property lobby are utterly bogus. Interesting: "When someone torrents a $12 album that they would have otherwise purchased, the record industry loses $12, to be sure. But that doesn't mean that $12 has magically vanished from the economy. On the contrary: someone has gotten the value of the album and still has $12 to spend somewhere else."

"Animals are banned from the moon. House cats now kill more people than heart disease."

"Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time." Refresh until you die. Looking through these, though, I recommend a grain of salt with each serving. These are the Snapple caps of the internet.

"...would he be instituting the most open and participatory executive branch our nation has seen, directly following the most closed and secretive? ... Oh, the answers are: yes, sure, and of course."

Christopher Fahey on the cycles of adoption and adaptation that determine how we interact with technology and media. Maybe we'll all be okay after all.

Scary lecture on torture techniques by Dr. Larry Forness of the American Military University in 2005. "I fill a syringe with the pig’s blood and threaten to inject him in the arm. The prisoner will talk -- and quickly."