Angelina Jolie writes about her preventative double mastectomy in an essay for The New York Times.

But I am writing about it now because I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action. ….

I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy. But it is one I am very happy that I made. My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. ….

I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer. It is my hope that they, too, will be will able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Read the whole piece here. 

Jennifer Lawrence, the Internet’s BFF.

Tywin vs Olenna: A Summary

‘Bout sums it up.

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Saw this on a tow truck while on the freeway recently and felt a little better about the world.

All he needs is a hotdog and some jack cheese to officially become Meat Cat. 

flannelanimal:

Here’s a small illustration I did for this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.  It accompanied an article by Mark Leibovich, asking question of just when Hillary Clinton’s inevitable presidential campaign will begin.

Someone has set the last five minutes of Sunday’s Game of Thrones to this already, right?

afterellen:

The Meet the Parents segment is interrupted because, dude, it’s finally time to fight. So Tamsin squares up her eyes to Bo and says, “Juice me.” Am I still wearing clothes? Because I don’t mean to be.

Bo grabs the back of Tam’s head and says sharing is caring. She jabs Tamsin and does the Succubus version of a blowback, where she sucks in some on Tamsin’s super juiced chi. They finally break all blue-eyed and slack-jawed and lusty roars and forget breaking out of the cell. First they’ll need a knife to cut all this sexual tension.

Dorothy Snarker’s “Lost Girl” finale recap!

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First Obamacare is overturned, oh never mind. Now Boston Marathon suspect is arrested, oh never mind. YOU HAD ONE JOB, CNN. Accurately report the news. CNN, officially now the Sam of news.