Ugh, it's impossible to stay up to date on politics nowadays

Why the Colonies’ Most Galvanizing Patriot Never Became a Founding Father

How Babywearing Went Mainstream

British Parliament Ditches Parchment for Paper

Debunking the Myth of 19th-Century ‘Tear Catchers’

Don't look down: NYPD unit does its work at dizzying heights

How Canada's 1st Women's Shelters Saved Women From Their Husbands

How African-Americans Disappeared From the Kentucky Derby

Where oil rigs go to die

Huge sinkholes are now appearing in the wrong places

Widespread vitamin D deficiency likely due to sunscreen use, increase of chronic diseases, review finds

Mongoose pups conceal identity to survive

Robert Reich: Now Trump Is Threatening the Independence of Judges

Historian Timothy Snyder: “It’s pretty much inevitable” that Trump will try to stage a coup and overthrow democracy

Educators value after-school program Trump wants to nix

Trump drops the mother of all bombs on libraries

For over a year, serial killing suspect went undiscovered (Unfortunately, the AP reused the original URL for a different article on the same subject, so you're stuck with this truncated one. I hate that the AP does that.)

Tillage farming damaging earthworm populations, say scientists

Locked Up for Being Poor

Gap growing between longest and shortest lifespans in the US

Trying to teach the dogs to sit.

Thus far, Finn has learned that he's much more likely to get a treat if he's sitting. He doesn't quite connect the action to the command yet, but still, that's progress. Moonpie has learned that if I'm saying "Sit!", treats are in the offering for good doggies, and she wants in on that action. Any actual sitting on her part is purely accidental. I've learned that I really need to get somebody to isolate the second dog while I work with the first dog, otherwise it's a disaster in the making.

Registered dog names in NYC

There are 9 Rovers and 9 Fidos, and 63 Finns, but only one Moonpie. (Interestingly, there is also a Moops, which is what we sometimes call Moonie when we're being silly.)

Of course, last I checked, some 80% of the dogs in NYC are unlicensed, so who knows if this is totally representative? Maybe people who license their dogs follow different trends from people who don't.