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* Winter has set in and 1 million Syrian Refugees and approximately 3.4 million people inside Syria are in desperate need of food. The UN has put out a call for people to help. https://give.wfp.org/en/629/?step=country&lead_source=2013-wfp-syria-crisispage&form_tag=2013-wfp-syria-crisispage

* "Questions and Answers About Calif. Sex Worker Rule:" http://abcnews.go.com/US/t/story/questions-answers-calif-sex-worker-rule-21188381

* "Alexander Aide Arrested For Possession And Distribution Of Child Porn:" http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/alexander-aide-arrested-for-possession-and-distribution-of-child-porn

* Know Your Rights. "Trouble in Transit: What to do if police stop you on the way to a music festival:" http://showbams.com/2013/12/04/trouble-in-transit-what-to-do-if-police-stop-you-on-the-way-to-a-music-festival/

* "China successfully completes first soft-landing on moon in 37 years:" http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-successfully-completes-first-soft-landing-on-moon-in-37-years/2013/12/14/fad6ffb4-64c6-11e3-af0d-4bb80d704888_story.html

* "Meet the Kraken: Hydrocarbon seas spotted at Titan's north pole:" http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/meet-the-kraken-hydrocarbon-seas-spotted-at-titans-north-pole/

* "Global Warming Is Still Melting Earth's Poles:" http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/14/global_warming_ice_loss_continues.html

* "Do Cats Control My Mind?:" http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/do-cats-control-my-mind/282045/

* Last night I discovered the refrigerator is defunct. Also the kitchen faucet fell off when we tried to use it. I'm now kind of fucked for surgery money, as these were more expenses I wasn't expecting and things are now rather tight. I have come to loathe the previous owners. The crusted filth they left behind, the broken things they could have told me about after we closed, the whole not disclosing all their debt which surprise raised the price on the unit last summer.

* RP: Tiger Rescue and Ghosts (We only had three players, so we did small scale things):

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* "Spoiler Warning: I'm Gonna Rant About Spoilers:" http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/12/02/spoiler-warning-im-gonna-rant-about-spoilers/

* Why I'm not seeing this film. "Saving Mr. Banks Is a Corporate, Borderline-Sexist Spoonful of Lies:" http://www.laweekly.com/2013-12-12/film-tv/saving-mr-banks-mary-poppins/

* The the night before, and the day Peter O'Toole died, I was randomly watching "Lawrence of Arabia." This movie always makes me think of "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" for what should be obvious reasons. This in turn, but me in a Noel Coward sort of mood.

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* "Artist Creates Elaborate Non-Photoshopped Scenes in Her Small Studio:" http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lee-jeeyoung-stage-of-mind-room

* "Gurney Journey: The creepy art of Zdzisław-Beksiński:" http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-creepy-art-of-zdzisaw-beksinski.html