Is coffee good for you?

Who cares? I’ll drink it anyway.

No, wait. That’s not the proper scientific attitude. In that attitude: Coffee just might be good for you. Under certain circumstances. Maybe.

And thanks, Gawker, for the link.

I said this once.

Mark Silk says it better.

Today’s Kwanzaa principle

Nia. Purpose.

And here’s more on the holiday.

Why do Christians eat their young?

That’s hyperbole, but Vegas just sent this link to her pastor’s blog. Read it. It’s good and contains a resolution I’d steal for myself if I was taking life seriously at all:

I’m going to commit to seek to understand before seeking to be understood in 2010. I’d love for you to join me.

All I really need to know, I learned in junior high

With apologies to Robert Fulghum, I was busy getting by on my looks in kindergarten (which I never attended, because at the time, Carterville, Mo., didn’t offer it) but come junior high (middle school, whatever), I had to get serious.

I was buck-toothed and hairy-legged and too smart for my own good in junior high, yet I didn’t want to be consigned to the corner, so I learned how to move to the center of the circle (by mouthing off, mostly), a skill that serves me today. In fact, I honed my smart-ass skills through my teens until they became my biggest asset.

You? What was your most formative decade? Or, if you’re a youngster, what was your most formative year, the one that taught you the most?

A new car park, just for girls!

It’s pink and purple and the spaces are wide.

And thanks, Feministe, for the link.

Kick Me’s back!

And she has a story to tell about her trip home for the holidays.

Hey! We all COULD be smarter, you know…

And Daily Beast can show you how. 25 Ways to Get Smarter, ratchere.

(The preceding is not meant to imply that you need to get smarter. This message is meant for those not-smart people around you. Do pass it on.)

Who says lefties don’t pray?

This from Janet Porter, who dragged herself from her warm spot by the fireplace to cry out: Wake Up America!

(Oh, and this: Fight for your lives!)

I am intrigued by her No. 4:

4. Fast. That’s right. High octane prayer – a weapon they don’t have. Have one more Christmas cookie, and then let God know we’re serious about our desperate need for Him to intervene and rescue us from the consequences of our actions. America made the choice of death last November, and as Deuteronomy 30:19 tells us, there are some consequences for such action. They’re called curses. The good news is there is a way to break a curse. It’s called repentance, which leads me to my next point.

(Her next point is everyone should come to Washington on May Day — get it? — to pray for a nation in distress. If you don’t mind, Janet, I’m going to stay home and pray for you. “Choice of death,” indeed.)

And thanks — as always — Right Wing Watch — for the link.

If you think YOU’VE got problems…

…Bro. Jay sends this, from Montgomery: A woman was confined to a mental institution by her sister, because of “sibling rivalry.” And now the woman, who is sane, owes thousands for a hospital bill.

Makes those spats at Christmas dinner seem kind of, well, ordinary, doesn’t it?