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Again, how to give money to Michael Brown’s family.


Fark.com adds spotting misogyny to their comment moderation guidelines.


how about some dogs eating popsicles

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Your dad is 91, which means he is an adult entitled to eat his feelings and also that he’s officially in overtime:

Q. Elderly Dad’s Diet: My dad is 91 and has diabetes. My brother, who lives with him, has put dad on a strict diet which cuts out all sweets. Dad finds his new diet depressing, particularly as he started comfort eating since his health declined rapidly in the past few months. Based on everything that’s going on health-wise I doubt he’d be around for much longer. So if he wants to eat cake and ice cream with every meal, I think he should. I am hesitant to criticize my brother who I know is trying his best in difficult circumstances. When I quietly brought up the issue of sweets, he insisted it was in dad’s best interests to keep him on the current diet. How can I press this issue further without driving a wedge between us?


Please be true, and if you know it’s not true, keep it to yourself:

On the evening of November 4th, Simpson and his two friends experimented with it. At first, they felt very cheerful and talkative. After a short time, they passed out. Impressed with the drug’s potency, Simpson began using chloroform as an anaesthetic, and indeed, the first baby born to a mother under the drug’s influence was named Anaesthesia.


Never call.


If you live in Utah (you don’t) and are a Professional Mormon Enthusiast and/or Lover of Curios, the Ogden temple is having an open house post-renovations, pre-re-dedication, so ANY RANDO can go inside and poke around (if they make a reservation and can act like an adult for the duration of the tour) and I am going on Thursday (you usually cannot enter the temple without a temple recommend, which is…oh, basically the most complicated thing in the world.) You don’t have to pay anything, which is helpful if your interest in the LDS faith does not extend to wanting to support them financially, though I intend to buy ice cream from local businesses, yes I do.


Your man might not just be cheating on you, he could also be a spy. Men who frequent radical bookshops are usually government plants. Break up with him now, just in case:

As Rob Evans and Paul Lewis write in “Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police,” Lambert “was well versed in political theory.” A former acquaintance told them, of Bob, “He was not a cardboard activist, he had real depth to him.” (Evans and Lewis exposed many of the events in this story in a series of articles in the Guardian, for which they won a 2014 British Press Award, and in “Undercover,” which is the definitive account of the excesses of undercover policing in Britain.) He urged Jacqui, a vegetarian, to become a vegan. With his long hair and off-the-grid life style, he seemed the embodiment of the anti-consumerist ethos of the British far left in the Thatcher age.

This is a long and fascinating tale, and he did many more shameful things LIKE HAVING A KID AND THEN PEACE-ING, but the idea that a FAKE ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT would nag his girlfriend into being a vegan is just…everything. You know he was eating meat-on-meat sandwiches while reading The Daily Telegraph whenever he was alone.


My mom is here, and she thinks my work is so important that I need attractive lunches brought to me in bed so I can continue doing it without interruption:

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Not only is rock climbing great, it’s basically the best preparation we have (apart from being a nationally-ranked gymnast) for AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR.


In a charming departure from deleting racist comments on Ferguson-themed pieces, it was my great pleasure to spot this incomplete, if well-targeted spam comment:

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Okay, one more:

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