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Shelter staff wanted to find another home for the pet.

Here's a great way to make sure you're waving your American flag proudly *and* properly this Memorial Day weekend.

On the ride home, Lizzy decided it was time and she gave birth to six puppies in the back of the car.

Michigan State Sen. Kim LaSata wants women with unviable fetuses to suffer more because it makes her God happy.

Pastor David Richards could have gone to jail for 72 years. The judge only gave him 12. Because of Jesus.

How far would you go for love? Katrina Jabbi relocated her children from Wisconsin to West Africa so her family could be together.

Found at The New Yorker.

The incident marks two dozen horse deaths at the racetrack since December.

The students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will forever remember the 14 therapy and service dogs that have guided them along an emotional journey in the aftermath of the 2018 mass shooting.

The former "Twilight" star has been tapped to become the new caped crusader.

“We are unimaginably heartbroken to announce the loss of our beloved Grumpy Cat,” read a statement.

Dexter Saffold took the witness stand more than five years ago and described the chaos he saw at a South Side gas station in 2011. Saffold told Cook County Circuit Judge Nicholas Ford that he watched a man shoot and kill one man there and badly wound another.

And he pointed out who did it — the defendant, Darien Harris, the man in the courtroom wearing the jail jumpsuit.

There was no physical evidence linking Harris to the shooting that left Rondell Moore dead and Quincy Woulard badly hurt.

Still, the judge, hearing the case without a jury, found Saffold persuasive. Ford called him an “honest witness” and said he’d given “unblemished” testimony. Largely based on that testimony, he found Harris guilty and sent him to prison for 76 years for murder.

But what the judge — and the accused — didn’t know was that Saffold had been deemed legally blind years earlier by his doctors and the U.S. government, the result of advanced glaucoma.

Now, Harris, 26, is trying to get his conviction overturned, citing the eyewitness’s previously unrevealed vision problems and also that, when asked about his vision, Saffold testified he had no problem seeing.

More at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Since the lawsuit, hospital officials have issued a statement saying they are "deeply disturbed" by the allegations.

...just keeping people comfortable!

Posted at the Insanepeoplefacebook subreddit.

This 2017 film received little U.S. attention, but was nominated for and won multiple awards from European film societies.   This is not a "Hollywood" movie - it has no explosions, no nudity or eroticism, no special effects, and - notably - no "storybook ending" (which might have contributed to a mediocre Rotten Tomatoes score).

What it does have is fine performances by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy, and a compelling narrative storyline.  Well worth a watch, IMHO, especially if you love books. 

Doesn't come with a cover or a binder.  Or even rings.

 Image cropped for size from the original at  ABoringDystopia.

This man became angry when a pediatrician tweeted that exemptions from vaccines put children at risk.

In response to a Hotez tweet that the latest increase in vaccine exemptions in Texas shows its children have been "placed in harm's way for the financial gain of special and outside interest groups," Rep. Jonathan Stickland, R-Bedford, let loose.

"You are bought and paid for by the biggest special interest in politics," tweeted Stickland. "Do our state a favor and mind your own business. Parental rights mean more to us than your self enriching 'science.'"

When Hotez replied that he doesn't take a dime from the vaccine industry and that as a Texas pediatrician-scientist who develops neglected disease vaccines for the world's poorest people, it is "most certainly my business," Stickland dug in even deeper.

"Make the case for your sorcery to consumers on your own dime," tweeted Stickland. "Like every other business. Quit using the heavy hand of government to make your business profitable through mandates and immunity. It's disgusting."

He is Jonathan Stickland, a legislator who participates in making laws for the state of Texas.  He's a Republican.

There is more at Chron (photo credit Tom Reel), via BoingBoing.

Arthur C.  Clarke's "Third Law": Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Photos of Great White Sharks, viewed "upside down" from underneath.

Actress Alyssa Milano called for a sex strike in response to restrictive abortion laws, and many women were quick to call her out.

"He’s so happy, so excited. I can see him and can understand that he’s so happy."

These gorillas are not fans of the mist.

A 57-year-old man was released on $50,000 bond after his arrest during a law enforcement raid on a Los Angeles mansion that uncovered more than 1,000 guns.

The mayor of a mostly white north Georgia city is being criticized for comments attributed to her that the community isn’t ready to have an African-American city administrator.

"An American mom today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother was," said Dr. Neel Shah, a Harvard Medical School obstetrician.

State Rep. Brian Sims asked the protester, "How many children have you clothed today?"

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered board members of Pacific Gas & Electric to tour the Northern California town of Paradise, which was leveled by a wildfire that may have been caused by the utility's equipment.

That's not news, of course.  But a longread at PhillyMag provides some insight into the bureaucracy and some ideas.

I’m on drugs for multiple sclerosis and have been since 2004. MS meds are what are called maintenance drugs, meaning you take them daily or weekly from the moment of diagnosis till death or untenable side effects do you part. They’re also some of the most jaw-droppingly expensive drugs on the market. Today, in 2019, the four different name-brand medications I’ve been prescribed at different points in my treatment list for between $75,816 and $98,899. Per year. Prices are indeed high. And they’re going up fast.

A debate over which is better - Chevy or Ford - led to an argument and a shooting in Virginia.

The teeth of the Port Jackson shark are one of its most distinguishable feature. Unlike other sharks, its teeth are different in the front and back. The front teeth are small, sharp and pointed, while the back teeth are flat and blunt. These teeth function to hold and break, then crush and grind the shells of the mollusks and echinoderms upon which this species feeds...

Port Jackson sharks have the ability to eat and breathe at the same time. This ability is unusual for sharks which mostly need to swim with their mouths open to force water over the gills. The Port Jackson shark can pump water into the first enlarged gill slit and out through the other four gill slits. By pumping water across the gills, the shark does not need to move to breathe. It can lie on the bottom for long periods of time...

It also does not pose any danger to humans. In October 2011 a man was 'bitten' by a Port Jackson shark at Elwood Beach near Melbourne. The bite did not pierce the skin and the man was able to swim away while the shark was latched on to his calf.

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