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The-Lake-Monsters-of-AmericaFull sized map and descriptions of some of the cryptozoological oddities from ‘nessies’ to webbed hominids and a ‘giant eel pig’ at Atlas Obscura.

A 1923 eyewitness account of the monster of Alkali Lake in Nebraska reported that the single-horned alligator-esque creature let out a “dreadful roar” from the water. Described as 40 feet long with a horn like a rhinoceros, as well as an atrocious smell that is near fatal in itself, it’s apparently a very hungry creature and devours anything in its path. Mostly this has been livestock. Sightings peaked in the 1920s, but have since faded, so perhaps Alkali Lake, now called Walgren Lake, is free from its fearsome, smelly unicorn beast.

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2013425113133925580_20You’re doing it wrong.

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored.

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”

But force has proved ineffective and pointless. Afghanistan is reeling, and no one can say what will happen after international forces withdraw. Libya is divided into tribes and clans. In Iraq the civil war continues, with dozens killed each day. In the United States, many draw an analogy between Iraq and Syria, and ask why their government would want to repeat recent mistakes.

Vladimir Putin.

A Plea for Caution From Russia (Vladimir Putin, New York Times)

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Waiting?

You could read Kevin Kruse in the New York Times about how truth is the real loser in this campaign.

OR, if you have SNES and (access to the deepest, darkest vaults of history) you could busy yourself with Socks The Cat Rocks The Hill.

It’s the 1993 game in which Bill Clinton’s cat saves the world from nuclear oblivion, fighting off spies, photographers and Republicans along the way.

YOU decide