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Obama’s overhaul of spy programs cloaked in more secrecy

http://bit.ly/IoJe8N

U.S. Homelessness Is on the Decline ... Maybe
New figures show surprising sides of homelessness, but how reliable are the numbers?

http://bit.ly/18X7aqP

Unpaid Internships Must Be Destroyed

https://medium.com/the-nib/6050f2c25497

Pope Francis denounces ‘trickle-down’ economic theories in critique of inequality

http://wapo.st/17XzZZk

The One and Only Thanksgivukkah

I'm posting this really for the top comment, which proposes the term "Thanksalatke". Damn, whoever came up with that should've jumped on it and started spamming the word everywhere starting in late October, because that is the best, and unless we move Thanksgiving back to the last Thursday of the month we will never have a chance to use it again.

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/candlepwr/the-one-and-only-thanksgivukkah/

Exclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

I haven't read this one.

http://atfp.co/1cH3xrv

At First Only 2 Lions Wanted to Play With the Camera, Then All of Them Did

http://bit.ly/1hbVNDu

Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions

http://bit.ly/1aDNGv9

“Tell Your Second-Grade Teacher I’m Sorry”

The failure of science education in the United States.

http://slate.me/1bgYDEX

How Scientists Are Learning To Shape Our Memory

http://bit.ly/1d248ZA

The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA

http://bit.ly/1cMrjlK

Sometimes, you can't win for losing.

Last night, around 1am, Eva threw up. Her mother wasn't home yet, so she got out of bed, washed up, changed her clothes, rinsed her mouth, and decided to come upstairs and fetch me. After determining that Jenn wasn't going to be home for another half an hour I went downstairs. I was utterly useless, of course, and never really woke up, but that's fine because the children are being raised to be self-sufficient and apparently it's working. Before she got into bed to snuggle with me Eva even remembered to bring a trash can to throw up into, and believe me, I would not have remembered that at that hour of night!

This morning, we needed to pay the cable bill, and I got tasked to do that. I thought we had about $200 more in the account than we did, so I blithefully paid up.

This afternoon, I went to clean the litterbox, and the very second it was clean, as I was about to start scooping new litter in, the cat decided she urgently needed to pee. *sigh* Less than three minutes has GOT to be a new record. At least I was able to dump the pee back out into the toilet. It's silly, but a clean box, newly soaped up and all, is an accomplishment.

Then I went to the store and found out that we only had $10 left in the account, because of the bill. We won't starve, but god, I hate having to put things back when I get to the checkout, especially when it's everything.

Sometimes, you just can't win.