Thursday evening roundup

India wins this one: what a bunch of assholes these American diplomats are. And also, idiots:

“One week in country and I already miss STEAK,” Mr. May, head of embassy security in New Delhi, stated in one post among many that caused outrage. Cows are venerated by Indian Hindus, and slaughtering cows is illegal in many places. In another, Ms. May, the embassy’s community liaison officer, responded to an article that claimed nonvegetarians were more prone to violence. “It’s the vegetarians that are doing the raping, not the meat eaters — this place is just so bizarre,” she wrote.

Or maybe they were just playing dumb and going out of their way to get out of the country? If I were the Foreign Service, though, I'd kick them out of that, too. Don't they have some kind of training about not posting offensive $hit on the internet?

What a mess the Daily Mail is. Aren't we at the point where this kind of thing has no meaning? Is there a natural limit to what we can find to be imperfect about women's bodies?

The thermodynamics of cuddling puppies.

Detailed, black-and-white animal portraits. This water-drop stuff looks pretty cool, too.