Saturday evening roundup

Here it is, and it is awesome (hat tip to Priya for finding it). If you think the green frosting will be too much for the kids, it works really well with the chocolate "frosting" from the fondue (chocolate, almond milk, vanilla extract). Though I personally liked the frosting (but with a fraction of the sugar, which is what we did, and it was still super sweet).

Okay, this kind of thing irks me to no end because body acceptance is not an us vs. them thing. It's about encouraging and enabling women (and men) to love their bodies and accept themselves. Yes, I've complained about being on the other side of "are you anorexic?" type comments--and there was just an E. Jean column about that (but it's not online yet): it's never appropriate to tell someone they're too anything, unless it's a health concern, and even then, it should come from a place of caring, not judgment. So I can only roll my eyes at "real women have curves" attitudes: it's not anyone's place to define real women for the rest of us, much less based on curves. But it's even worse to feel victimized for being fit, and it's much worse to demonize women of different body shapes. This war is silly. Our bodies are ours: it's bad enough that advertisers and douche bags are claiming ownership rights by telling us what we should look like; let's not compound the issue by telling each other what we should look like.

The Onion speculates as to scenes in "The Hobbit."

The Year in Food.

Eat asparagus before you drink.