God my head hurts today

and I just don't know why. Finally remembered to try a painkiller.

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How a Frozen Pizza Brand Became Norway’s Unofficial National Dish

The Robin Hood You Love is A Lie

What the Archaeology of Night Reveals

Is 'bisexual lighting' a new cinematic phenomenon?

Mas Subramanian's Quest for a Billion-Dollar Red

The Great Chinese Dinosaur Boom

How Connecticut’s Homegrown Silk Industry Unraveled

How to Talk With Evangelicals About Evolution

Is Rural America Getting Tired of Tough-on-Crime Policies?

Why Public Defenders Matter More Than Ever in a Time of Reform

Indiana abortion law signed by Mike Pence ruled unconstitutional

Pakistan's Ziarat: An ancient juniper forest and its living fossils

Justice Department demands info from all four major US wireless carriers in probe of alleged collusion

Engineers Are Leaving Trump’s America for the Canadian Dream

New Study Says Ancient Humans Hunted Big Mammals To Extinction

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong

‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro

Why a Statue of the 'Father of Gynecology' Had to Come Down

Trump complaining that Gorsuch is becoming too liberal: report (The independent judiciary is an important feature of the balance of powers, buddy.)

How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right's most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.

The Island Where France's Colonial Legacy Lives On

Italy Is the West’s Future

Armenian leaders face crunch talks after protests

‘Men Treat Us Like We Aren’t Human.’ Indian Girls Learn to Fight Back.

At 17, this sexual abuse survivor set out to fix a broken system

Fake media is coming for our memories

Giant plastic 'berg blocks Indonesian river

China’s Global Dreams Give Its Neighbors Nightmares

One death, then another, and another — all in the same house. The first two written off as a tragic coincidence, until the third shattered doubts.

Too Many Atheists Are Veering Dangerously Toward the Alt-Right

Investigating pathways to the alt-right is SPLC's exploration of the question, "what brings someone into the alt-right ecosystem?"

Congress Has Willfully Abdicated Its Responsibility Over War

Signal boost!

This sounds like a lot of fun for those of us willing to - gulp! - write things for public consumption. I see there's a lot of unanswered prompts!

Checking my email....

We’ve added a mutual arbitration clause.

Hopefully, disputes will never be an issue, but in the case of one, this allows a third-party arbitrator to help us resolve them. We’ve also added a class action waiver. These provisions are an important part of our relationship with you, so please read them carefully.

...do they think their users are completely stupid? I'm quite sure that these provisions are an important part of their relationship with me, but that's because that's really shitty.

I mean, it's a free email service, so whatever, but don't insult me like this. Just give me a long line of small print, all-caps, and I'll scroll to the bottom and click okay. Don't make me read how you're screwing us over and then present it like I should be glad!

Just a quick FYI

I've got some sudden family stuff going on and may be slow to reply to comments etc.