Happy National Chocolate Day!

The BOG Blog would like to recommend you all go out and get yourselves some yummy, fair trade, organic dark chocolate! It's the best tasting, best for the environment, and best for your body! In case you need an excuse, here are some of the benefits of pure dark chocolate for your hot little bod (via momscape.com) -

* Cacao, the source of chocolate, contains antibacterial agents that fight tooth decay. Of course, this is counteracted by the high sugar content of milk chocolate.
* The smell of chocolate may increase theta brain waves, resulting in relaxation. * Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine, a mild mood elevator.
* The cocoa butter in chocolate contains oleic acid, a mono-unsaturated fat which may raise good cholesterol.
* Drinking a cup of hot chocolate before meals may actually diminish appetite.
* Men who eat chocolate live a year longer than those who don't.
* The flavanoids in chocolate may help keep blood vessels elastic.
* Chocolate increases antioxidant levels in the blood.
* Mexican healers use chocolate to treat bronchitis and insect bites.
* The carbohydrates in chocolate raise serotonin levels in the brain, resulting in a sense of well-being.

Additionally, as we have learned from Harry Potter, chocolate is also a great remedy to speed your recovery after a Dementor attack. Yup. I'm a nerd, I know.

In Case You Forgot, Hillary Clinton Is A BadAss

A car bomb went off in Peshawar, Pakistan, yesterday claiming the lives of at least 100 innocent people. The bomb went off just hours after United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrived in Islamabad (Pakistan's capital) to show the US support of Pakistan's growing battle against the Taliban insurgency. I'm not going to get into my feelings of our involvement with this particular nuclear-armed country's battle with insurgents, but I do just want to say this - Hillary Clinton always has been and always will be a complete and total badass. Here's a portion of her response to yesterday's attack (via CNN.com):

"If the people behind the attacks were so sure of their beliefs, let them join the political process, let them come forth to the people and make their case that they don't want girls to go to school, that they want women to be kept back, that they believe they have all the answers... They know they are on the losing side of history but they are determined to take as many lives with them as their movement is finally exposed for the nihilistic, empty effort that it is."

Talk about calling it like it is.

"Rhymes With Schmormoms"

Colbert on the supporters of R-71. This made me laugh so hard that I was crying. I love this guy...

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Oh yeah, that was me being sarcastic. How hilarious is THIS video????

Dumb and Dumber

WHAT. THE. FUCK?! I get off the train this morning, and the Knights of Columbus are out and about collecting money, and I walk up to the knight standing outside of the station and he's wearing his gigantic yellow vest that has KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS across the bottom and HELP RETARDED CHILDREN across the top/main portion. I was literally stunned into silence. I just stood there for a few seconds, mouth open, staring at him. I started to approach him about it, but some other guy began to chat him up and I was running late to work, so I instead spent my walk to the office fuming in my head.

When I got to work, I saw my boss in the hallway and was telling him about it, and some co-worker interrupted us to tell me that her hubby is a KOC and the guy I saw probably just had an old vest. No bigs. No bigs to show your support of bigoted language because you're too lazy to get a new vest. IF that's the reason. He probably really just supports that language. Anyway, I just thought that was fucking ridiculous and figured I'd share. On a plus note, you all look very nice in your non-bigoted-supporting clothing today.

Holy Moly

This guy is amazing.

Gators Don't Sweat

Sorry kids. I've been away and horrible at blogging. Life's been insane lately! I have some fun things to share with you, but am having yet another insane day, so for now this is all you get: a promise. A promise that I will be back to blogging my little heart out this week. In the meantime, I bought you this shirt to make up for everything.



You're welcome. Love, Garvey