An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn).

Abortion is a moral right—which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other than her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body?

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Abortion — Ayn Rand Lexicon

Yes, that Ayn Rand.

This article proposes that optimal psychological functioning is associated with a slight to moderate degree of distortion in one’s perception of self and world. Past evidence suggests that substantial distortions provide a dangerous basis for action, yet recent research has shown that highly accurate perceptions are associated with depression and other maladaptive patterns. By seeing things as only slightly better than they really are, the individual may enjoy the affective benefits of illusions while avoiding the pragmatic, behavioral risks of acting on false assumptions. Departures from this optimal margin of illusion are associated with risks and difficulties, and power hierarchies may be an important arena for studying these problems.

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The Optimal Margin of Illusion

(via The Atlantic)

Strangling the opponent to induce a submission; a strangle can be induced with the uniform, arms, legs or with the opponent’s own shoulder muscle. If the strangulation does not end in a submission, and rather the opponent falls unconscious, ippon is awarded as well.

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One of five ways to win in Judo

Ippon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Women’s 25m Pistol gold medalist Jangmi Kim of South Korea.

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South Korea’s women’s archery team won its seventh straight Olympic title on Sunday, scoring a nine on the final arrow to defeat China in the gold-medal match. That the archers did it while dressed like they were on their way to the Best Coast show in Williamsburg was an even greater achievement.

The three women on Korea’s dominant team won gold wearing plaid bucket hats, pink and white buttoned-up shirts, beaded bracelets and black-rimmed glasses. One even had a vest that depicted small Korean girls shooting arrows, the ultimate in self-referential hipstertude. (via [South Korea’s hipster archers unironically win gold

Fourth-Place Medal - Yahoo! Sports](http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/korea-hipster-archers-unironically-win-gold-175739482–oly.html))

Gold medal in awesome.

The fencing arena is just a repurposed soundstage from Star Wars.

This is what happens when you mix up the YP_BP_R cables on your TV.

Rente a modest local hous
Cutte yower hayre and rayse sum cows.
Taste sum ale and playe sum chesse
As yf yower lyf were nat endles.

Yet nevir shal ye parfit be
For yf a grim night ye sholde se
Wyth rattes stalking on floor
Ye koude go back to Faerye forevirmoor.

Nevir shal ye be lyk mortal peple.
Nevir shal ye do as mortals do.
Nevir age lyk mortal peple.
Nevir shal the fayrness from yow go.

And thus moore fayre we revel, feaste, and swyve
By cause but for a shorte space we lyve.

—Chaucer Doth Tweet