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Female monkeys use wile to rally troops

The Normalization of ‘Normalize’ Is a Sign of the New Normal (I think there are exactly 7 language people on-call for every question the media ever has on linguistics.)

The Strangest Calls to the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line

Invasion Of The Big-Brained Sci-Fi Blockbuster!

Tuna’s Declining Mercury Contamination Linked to U.S. Shift Away from Coal

Never forget c’thurkey, the octopus-stuffed turkey from hell

Green Party filing for recount in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. (Well, thank you Jill Stein!)

Can DIY Flipbooks Become the YouTube of Prisons?

The Short, Frantic, Rags-to-Riches Life of Jack London

The enormous pop-up clinic trying to bridge America’s health divide

The upper Han: The world’s rising superpower has a particular vision of ethnicity and nationhood that has implications at home and abroad

The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries Old)

Impostor Syndrome Is Probably the Reason You’re Terrible At Your Job

After decades of progress, the earnings gap between black and white men is back at 1950 levels. The earnings gap between black and white men narrowed during the civil rights era. Then, starting around 1970, the gap between black and white men's wages started widening once again.

Why Kids Need Recess

How the Recession Left Low-Income Children Out of Shape and Out of Options

'Invisible' Children: Raised In The U.S., Now Struggling In Mexico

What It's Like to Raise Kids in a Refugee Camp

Babies For Sale: The Secret Adoptions That Haunt One Georgia Town

For Trans Women of Color, Safe Employment Is a Matter of Life and Death

Hacked or Not, Audit This Election (And All Future Ones)

Autocratic for the people: As Donald Trump’s populist wave recedes, an authoritarian regime in the making is revealed

Alarm In Germany And Israel At Emboldened U.S. White Supremacists

Literacy Not A Right For Detroit School Kids According To State (Oh, ffs already!)

And in the course of a couple hours, Jill Stein has more than raised the cash

for a recount.

As far as I can see, this is a win-win. Either it turns out that there was no manipulation and we all breathe a huge sigh of relief, or it turns out there was and Trump's out and therefore we all breathe a huge sigh of relief. (Enormous, actually.)

I don't know if there was any manipulation, of course. I find the discrepancy with the exit polls concerning, and frankly Trump's repeated claims that the election was "rigged" smell more than a little like projection... but I'm well aware that I'd really like to believe the whole system is corrupt rather than millions and millions of people voted in a bigot. Just because I want to believe it doesn't make it true.

( Cue the outrage from the Right. )

Gosh, the next month is going to be a barrel of laughs, I can tell already.

People are justifiably worried about Trump's effect on climate change.

And some of those same people are also worried that Trump will nuke the Middle East to glass, thus setting off WW3.

But wait! Only one of those things can happen.

Either global warming continues apace until we all drown or we enter a prolonged nuclear winter and nobody ever has to worry about coastal flooding ever again! So stop worrying, and love the bomb. There is a very bright side to global thermonuclear war, and I've found it! And unlike global warming, at least it will be over quickly.

Today we had guests coming over

so first I made kugel (they'd already eaten dinner) and then I made Swedish meatballs.

My goodness, kugel and Swedish meatballs is delicious, but an extremely heavy meal and I don't think I'll eat again for a month.