Not normally a guy who notices cute kids, but I thought this was adorable. (Also, any kid who carries around his own body weight in books, I’d probably get along with.)

The good news:

President Obama’s budget proposal will include $235 million in funding for new mental health programs, focused initiatives to help schools detect early warning signs and train thousands of new mental health professionals.

The not-so-good news:

Obama touched briefly on the importance of expanding mental health services in a Monday night speech on gun violence.

I already divide the world into people who get it and people who are clueless. There’s an additional very small category of people who are scared of me, and it doesn’t help that my diagnosis of bipolar II requires all sorts of footnotes to explain that it’s not the scary bipolar I variety. (“Oh sure, I have tuberculosis, but it’s not the infectious type.”)

Would be nice if public awareness could be raised without scaring the hell out of them first.

Here, Internet, have an accordion. Resize your browser window to play it. (Hat tip: Paul Guinnessy.)

From Marco Tabini’s article on Siri recognition:

Hope you like Star Wars, because starting in 2015, it’s gonna be one every year.

A cat, dressed as a shark, riding a Roomba, chasing a duck.

We not only shouldn’t hold Tsarnaev as a combatant, we actually can’t.

Under the AUMF as interpreted by the courts, and under the NDAA as passed by Congress, the administration is authorized to hold in military detention only those who are “part of” or “substantially supporting” Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces. Nothing that has come to light publicly has shown that Tsarnaev was operating as part of any group covered by the AUMF.

(And I’m confused about the anti-Miranda crowd: not Mirandizing doesn’t take away his right to remain silent, it just doesn’t remind him of it. I have trouble understanding the so-called advantages of waiving it.)

Here, Internet, have another kitten.

Facebook won’t let me post this. Let see if this works:

Attn Heather Hamilton, might be useful: “@google: Google Translate now supports Khmer in alpha – our 66th supported language http://goo.gl/SWjvN”

CNN released a series of photographs today depicting the three obese Mexican women it claims are the chief suspects in the Boston Marathon attack

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cnn-releases-photos-of-3-obese-mexican-women-suspe,32112/

Charlie Pierce with an interesting insight. I’m not sure why automatic weapons always = shooting, while an explosion = terrorism.

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/politics/Moving_On_Through_The_Day

Sorry about your Mom. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

Ohio Catholic High School Fires Gay Teacher For Naming Partner In Mother’s Obituary

When her mother died in March, she included her partner’s name in her obituary, and apparently an anonymous parent thought that was sufficient reason to complain to the Diocese of Columbus. Hale told the Colmbus Dispatch that the school then fired her a week later.

This is briefly amusing before it becomes rather disturbing.

Dating can be tough in a small country like Iceland. There are only 320,000 people and many are distant relatives. So the government created a genealogy website.

Would love to know what algorithmic genius came up with this one.

http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2013/04/17/Scams-Exploiting-Boston-Marathon-Explosion

Malicious actors are exploiting the April 15 explosions at the Boston Marathon in attempts to collect money intended for charities and to spread malicious code. Fake websites and social networking accounts have been set up to take advantage of those interested in learning more details about the explosions or looking to contribute to fundraising efforts.

A recipe from the obscure Souphilly dynasty.

According to CNN, the following appears when you go to bostonmarathonconspiracy.com:

I bought this domain to keep some conspiracy theory kook from owning it. Please keep the victims of this event and their families in your thoughts. Thank you.

I heard about the nationwide ground-stop, and today I thought “threat”. Official announcement, it’s not.

Knowing what I know about the Yankees and Red Sox, this is rather moving.

@Yankees: Our thoughts are with the Boston community. Tonight there will be a special moment of silence & Fenway favorite Sweet Caroline @ end of 3rd.

https://twitter.com/slate/status/324240671047311360