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politics Biden hopes to increase his poll numbers by calling a woman at his event a "lying dog-faced pony soldier" Mark Frauenfelder
tabloids Killing the Queen, John Lennon’s murder, and William Shatner’s talking horses in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
happy mutants Dick and Stewart: a new, delightfully dark and twisted animated series from Scarfolk's Richard Littler Richard Littler
Japan A fun thing to do in LA on 9/22/19: screening of The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) Mark Frauenfelder
crime Lessons from testing decades of forgotten rape kits: serial rapists are common, they don't follow a pattern, they're not very bright, and they're often the same men who commit acquaintance rape Cory Doctorow
