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* "Ferguson judge issues mass amnesty on warrants:"

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* "Donald Trump: Brothers who beat and urinated on Latino man ‘want this country to be great again’:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/donald-trump-brothers-who-beat-and-urinated-on-latino-man-want-this-country-to-be-great-again/

* Is anyone surprised that notorious former Grand Wizard of the KKK and noted Republican Presidential Candidate, David Duke, is officially endorsing Donald trump as the candidate best representing his vision for America?

* It was nice to see the other reporters standing up for Jorge Ramos when Donald Trump had him ejected for asking tough questions at a press conference.

* Trump is so cowardly he can't face questioning by the DesMoines Register, Jorge Ramos, and Megan Kelly, but he keeps insisting he can stand up to Putin and force Mexico to build a massive boarder wall at their own expense. Riiiiiight.

* "IT HAPPENED TO ME: My Partner Came Out as Trans, And I Struggled With Losing My Lesbian Identity:" http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/when-my-partner-came-out-as-trans-i-lost-my-lesbian-identity

* "One Woman's Reaction To Every 'White Man's Sentence':" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seriously-stop-telling-women-how-to-talk_55d5d9a5e4b0ab468d9fef28?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000030

* Black Sails rewatch episode 4:

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* Oooo! I wish I could go! "There Is An Underground Amusement Park In Transylvania:" http://awol.com.au/there-is-an-underground-amusement-park-in-transylvania/4784

* "“Nice boots, Tinker Bell!”: Steve Rogers as an allegory for the impossibility of performative masculinity.:" http://mathildia.tumblr.com/post/126672511420/nice-boots-tinker-bell-steve-rogers-as-an

* "Killjoys, Season 1, Episode 10: Escape Velocity:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/08/killjoys-season-1-episode-10-escape.html

* "Sir Patrick Stewart Loves A Male Kiss:" http://app.siz.io/stories/sir-patrick-stewart-loves-a-male-kiss?src=tum

* "Sunday Sweets: Modern, Funky, Cool!:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2015/8/23/sunday-sweets-modern-funky-cool.html

* Ebay:

Lindworm 2012 (LE, DragonCon, Event Exclusive): (Company says: Smoky green leather smeared with crushed grasses and wild herbs). 3/4 Full. http://www.ebay.com/itm/301718133830?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

* A list of LGBTQA Charities to donate money to instead of seeing the racist Stonewall Movie that decided to portray a black trans woman activist as a cis white man. http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

* Trying to stay afloat until September: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com

RIP Chris Gillen

I don't know if there are still any Johnnies reading this, so anything I could say about Chris Gillen likely would means nothing to the rest of you. Suffice to say, a member of my original friend group at my first college has died. Natural causes, which makes sense, given who and how. I haven't heard from him in something like decade. He migrated to facebook and I simply won't, and so we fell out of touch again. He was funny and infuriating and a mess, but an interesting mess. For those of you I've told the wild immigrant story involving assassins and name changes and Ellis Island? That was his grandfather. Most of the other stories I could tell are too "You had to be there," or too Johnnie, or you would have to know the people sorts of things. The Drakkar Noir story is not the sort of thing you tell about the dead.

Still, I am sad he's not out there somewhere being snarky and witty and difficult.