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Racist, sexist New York Post front page goes full 'Hey, where the white women at?' on Obama (DailyKos)

'Sister Wives' Family Wins Ruling in Bigamy Suit -- "A federal judge ruled Friday that key parts of Utah's polygamy laws are unconstitutional, handing a legal victory to a polygamist family that stars in the TV reality show 'Sister Wives.' U.S. District Court Judge Clark Waddoups said in the ruling that the phrase in Utah law that forbids cohabitation with another person was a violation of the First Amendment."

Dehydration, delirium cited in Lynne Spalding's death -- This does not absolve the hospital in any way. Officials failed to do a timely, thorough search. The same amount of liability would attach if the patient had been afflicted with Alzheimer's--just because she was confused does not mean that the hospital did its due diligence. Because of their negligence, the woman died of thirst, one of the most excruciatingly painful ways to go.

Govern in Poetry (NYT)

The FDA's toothless action on animal-feed antibiotics isn't enough

Could comb jellies, close cousins of jellyfish, be the earliest ancestors of animals? -- Not suggesting anything of substance but, in the last photo, the left side of the red lobate ctenophore does resemble a human brain.

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