The most fun my 12-year-old daughter ever had shopping for a toy was last winter when she ordered a Makies doll (pictured above).

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The Duggar sisters defend their brother Josh’s molestation of them, but say he was ‘very sly.’ Seriously: what the hell, America.

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Just a little old-time religion.

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Boing Boing reader Cary (crenquis on our BBS) informs us that the world finally makes some sense: a Great Pyrenees has been elected mayor of a Minnesota town.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/AZAZcGDB02s/great-pyrenees-elected-mayor.html

By weird video humor expert Vic Berger. Read the rest

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It's not that they buy politicians (there's some of that), it's that they order their workers donate to, write to, and vote for their preferred politicians, with reprisals for employees who don't toe the company line. Read the rest

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Lee Siegel defaulted on his student loans because it was "absurd that one could amass crippling debt as a result, not of drug addiction or reckless borrowing and spending, but of going to college" just because "he had the misfortune of coming from modest origins." Read the rest

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The LAT's editorial page calls for Snowden to return to the US to be put on trial because we live in a "society of laws," but this commitment to the rule of law only reaches to a single source, and not the many "unnamed sources" who reveal secrets that have been tacitly cleared by the US government. Read the rest

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A beautiful list, including "[T]he innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” Read the rest

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Best novel: Annihilation;, Jeff VanderMeer; Novella "Yesterday’s Kin," Nancy Kress; Novelette “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i,” Alaya Dawn Johnson; Short story “Jackalope Wives,” Ursula Vernon; Movie Guardians of the Galaxy; YA Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson. Read the rest

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"After controlling for potential confounders, higher monthly ejaculation frequency was associated with a statistically significant decreased risk of total prostate cancer compared to the reference group at every time period." Read the rest

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About two thousand feet (598 meters) below the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, remotely operated vehicle Hercules encountered a magnificent sperm whale. Read the rest

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“My name is Loca, and I can't feckin' run.” She's Irish. Read the rest

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FFE5J5lAMd4/may-contain-peanuts-grim-phil.html

From an Illinois brewery's "panty dropper" label to Bud Light's #UpForWhatever campaign, many beer labels have caused controversy and lawsuits over the years.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Cg4taHlUZ-Y/8-beer-label-scandals-that-cam.html

Colin Furze made a nutty electrified “knife that can toast as you cut the bread." And then the butter will go on...like butter.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/r8PNOyXQR5c/electrified-knife-toasts-bread.html

John Hughes made his classic movie for a mere $5M, a kind of side project to recover from his runaway successes w with The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles -- it had everything, even Ben Stein speaking words without revealing the fact that he is a colossal asshole. Read the rest

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She growls for reasons we cannot comprehend.

[Stewart Benson]

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The new line of Barbie dolls include eight skin tones, 14 faces, 22 hairstyles, 23 hair colors and 18 eye colors. As stephen_schenck points out on the BB BBS, they are available in any body type as long as it's very thin. Read the rest

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A Huntington Beach, CA man expressed his displeasure for a hovering multicopter by knocking it to the ground with his shirt.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SMqi6SGiqqI/angry-gentleman-possibly-inebr.html