Welcome to The Faster Times update. In today's edition, we bring you a medical mystery, nasty rhetoric, Brock Lesner, LinkedIn, and a wordbird. Enjoy!

Peter hates the dentist. The thought of visiting his local conjurer of fancy toothpicks elicits a complex and decidedly unpleasant visceral reaction. Besides the usual anticipation of uncontrolled slavering and high speed drilling, Peter constantly worries about his breath, imagining his dentist cringing behind her mask as she experiences his perceived and perhaps real disabling halitosis.

Amid the array of hysterical reactions to President Obama’s Middle East speech — notable examples include Benjamin Netanyahu and Mitt Romney — one under-reported response came from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which blasted Obama for calling for Israel to return to the 1967 “Auschwitz borders”.

Brock Lesnar was forced to pull out of his scheduled fight with Junior dos Santos due to a flair up of his diverticulitis. Lesnar missed more than a year because of the disease before returning to defeat Shane Carwin at UFC 116. This is the second time Lesnar will be missing significant time while he deals with diverticulitis, and it is an issue the former heavyweight champ will be dealing with for the rest of his career and life. Naturally, this raises a lot of questions.

You will read many stories today about how LinkedIn’s unexpectedly monstrous debut means that everything has changed. They are all true. The money is no longer theoretical, it is real.

CANCELLELATION (N.) ‘kan-sul-ee-‘lay-shun The joy felt by someone who frees up his schedule by canceling an appointment or reneging on a social plan. Usage: Davina knew she ought to feel guilty for bailing on Mariel’s dinner at the last minute, but a delicious cancellelation surged through her as Clive brought out the Scrabble.