DUDE. You know I would totally let you have cookies for dinner.

Oh, Burt. I love it when you're on weekend duty. It's like when your parents hire that cool, laid-back babysitter who would let you eat cookies for dinner.

"Child abuse," I thought, but kept my mouth shut."

If you're "planning to propose" and writing in the newspaper about doing it, have you not, in fact, already proposed? If the whole world, including your GF, knows you're planning on marrying her, you don't need to ask, right? She has already said Yes by making you the stupid sandwiches.

"Schrödinger's fat."

Meta-studies are kind of tricky... different studies have different conditions/sampling biases and thus sometimes reach different conclusions (there are probably individual [legit] studies out there finding no link between smoking and cancer, for example). So it's actually not all that difficult to accidentally (or…

So bored. Very sit. Much Lena. Many snores.

To be fair she did apologize - most Gawker staff don't. Doug Barry, for example, hasn't said a word of apology over the article he wrote that basically condoned Chris Brown getting sexually abused as a child.

People, the tag on this article is goddamn "First Person." It's a personal reflection. Click on her damn blog. Not everything has to be a well-researched, cited, serious journalistic "article." Jesus.

Because people are sheep. And not cool sheep like this one:

Don't you hate it when someone's agenda is to have kids eating healthier, more appetizing food?

I got this tote bag from SeaBags. It is awesome and it is a local business so double win.

... when I'd be more than happy to toot it for him.

Paper itself available at Association of Nut Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.

Old Testament or Kirkland Signature edition?

If only she were using her influence and stardom to also build schools for kids, homes for Katrina victims, or award scholarships. All that shilling of products on her show should have lead to something besides a personal hoard of cash.

It is. I also really like Jenny Owen Youngs's cover of "Hot in Herre".