The Atlantic:  What Kids Told Us About How to Get Them Off Their Phones

In March, the Harris Poll surveyed more than 500 children ages 8 to 12 across the United States, who were assured that their answers would remain private. They offered unmistakable evidence that the phone-based childhood is in full force. A majority reported having smartphones, and about half of the 10-to-12-year-olds said that most or all of their friends use social media.

Asking children what to do usually isn’t a good idea because they don’t have experience or maturity, and they are not a disinterested third party.  In this case, they make good points.

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Today I learned that until the mid-1800’s, people who didn’t eat meat were referred to as “Pythagoreans”.  That’s about the time when some killjoy invented the word “vegetarian”.

This Rubens painting is Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism.

That’s from Wikipedia, and it doesn’t make sense because the painting is from the 1600’s.  Doesn’t matter, I’m still going to start calling them Pythagoreans.

In Arthur Conan Doyle’s book, Gothic Tales, he refers to a character as a Pythagorean, so the word was in usage in the 1800’s.  Back in the day, culture changed slowly and not uniformly.

Statues Of Random Fat Black Women Popping Up Worldwide

Those aren’t fat Black women.  Statues #2 and #4 would be overweight, but #2 looks like she’d be too tall and #4 carries too much weight in her belly.  I’m assuming that a fat Black woman is the same as a fat Black lady.

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