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Good Samaritan pays 17 overdue water bills

Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand

Voter Fraud News: Indiana GOP Secretary of State “Ineligible to Serve”

Observatory Safely Studies Deep-Sea Life

The Scandinavian Wildlife Park of Djursland has been raising Siku, a one month old Polar Bear cub, by hand since his mother was unable to provide enough milk for him. Since birth, the cub has more than doubled in weight, and Zoo officials say little Siku is doing fine.

The world’s coolest maps, all in one place

father nathan monk at pensacola city council

Absolutely Stunning Photos of Saturn’s Moon Titan

These tiny, charred planets dove inside their dying star…and survived

St. Fagans: National History Museum
Take a stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures

Louis CK gives $280,000 from his DIY special to charity

Proteigon: Amazing Papercraft Stop Motion Animation

National Cancer Institute help line provides unbiased, useful information

How a predator bird and its prey came together to fight a common enemy

Very Customized Bookcase -- Ridiculous, but strangely beautiful.

The Elephant in the Room: How Contraception Could Save Future Elephants from Culling

5 Alternatives to PayPal

This Room Is Guaranteed To Blow Your Mind -- I would love a room like this. Yes, I'm aware I'm a goddamned hippy.

Frankincense is on its way to extinction

Top Ten Bizarre Wars

Unknown Sixth Toe Discovered in Elephants

Why I Advocate For Casual Sex

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Franchise Internet Fandom Infographic

Knowing a painting is forged changes how your brain sees it (nifty, but dinky little sample size)

Google Maps Has Walking Directions into Mordor

What Were You Doing Online A Year Ago?

A "research cruise" could recruit tourists to study tsunami debris

Yet Another Huge, Comprehensive Study Finds that Abortion Doesn’t Cause Mental Health Problems

Underwater neutrino detector will be the second largest structure ever built

Here are the first two Earth-sized exoplanets ever discovered

DOJ to America: we won't reveal the circumstances under which you can be assassinated by us

10 Facts about Portable Electronics and Airplanes

California Republicans Call for Official Investigation of Dems’ Redistricting Tactics -- Yup. Investigate the Dems in CA, investigate the Repubs here in Ohio -- either which way, the whole thing is a mess, and neither side should be able to play these kinds of games with our votes.

Methadone, Used to Treat Pain, Kills Thousands Every Year

Little-Known Killer: A Young Mom Survives Sepsis
Definition of Sepsis
We lost an infant family member a few generations back to septicemia, so I've always been raised to be very VERY conscious of any red streaking from the site of a minor infection (one symptom of spreading infection that can lead to sepsis).

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I wish they were more proactive at dealing with the kind of fraud that actually occurs... candidate fraud. The attacks on "voter fraud" are a cover to hide the fact that most of the fraud is either financial or disclosure related. I'm glad Indiana did something right in ousting this ass for lying.

I still love maps.

Weird bookcase is weird. Actually it's kind of surreal. Anna says it makes her think of the people who buy books just to make themselves look important or well-read rather than actual biblophiles.

Your much squarer brother is not interested in hippyroom.

(snerk) People do dumb things... sometimes the dumb things turn out funny, even when it's war. I'm surprised the Michigan v. Ohio dust-up didn't get a mention for stupidity level. Unfortuantely other dumb ideas with war such as wars against ideas (Terrorism, Drugs, etc.) cause misery beyond count.

(sigh) One most certainly can walk into Mordor. Gah. I hate how many people get these details wrong. Getting in isn't a problem, it's getting in without being seen, or more pointedly getting back out again. As stated in the book the two towers, all you have to do is present yourself to the black gate and they'll take you to "him" very quickly.

Timehop, yet another reason I avoid most of the "social" internet.

Going back to politics, I firmly believe we should have geographically median voting districts, using natural (rivers, continental divide, etc.) and established breaks (county lines, city limits, etc.) to determine the borders of the voting districts. This gerrymandering has got to stop. Take it out of the hands of politicians, establish a group of political geographers with no party affiliation, and let them do the damned job after each census. No more political considerations as to how the damned things fall out. It annoys me that they create these minority districts to create a single minority representative, but in doing so the actually weaken the rest of our block voting power to vote evenly. You'll end up with a 50-50 split over 5 districts getting turned into 4 of 55-45 and one of 70-30 resulting in consistantly 4-1 swing republican under the guise of minority representation. Thats a very genaric example, but I've seen it happen a LOT down here in the south where you basically greate a very high rate for one group at the expense of all the other groups around them creating more disparity than there was before. It's incredibly counter productive to actually having competative districts.

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Going back to politics, I firmly believe we should have geographically median voting districts, using natural (rivers, continental divide, etc.) and established breaks (county lines, city limits, etc.) to determine the borders of the voting districts. This gerrymandering has got to stop.

Couldn't agree more. It's an absolute perversion of democratic process.