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The official Seattle Police blog prepares citizens for legalized pot today: “Please remember it’s still not legal to drive stoned, use marijuana in a public place or anywhere else smoking a cigarette is prohibited… The Dude abides, and says ‘take it inside!’” [via @JC_Christian]

Seeing as we’re close personal friends of Barry and Mitt and Joe and Paul — that is, we’re on the mailing lists for Team Obama and Team Mitt — we’ve received friendly emails with handy links that instruct us where to vote. Let’s click them!

The Team Obama email links to this page, where we enter our address and zip code, and — Voila! — our personal polling location shows up!

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“The Republican nominee has made a habit of spray tanning before major speeches, debates, interviews, and other events that have a chance of getting wide TV coverage, the source said. He pays for the process out of pocket — sparing his campaign the expense, and the task of masking it on public campaign finance reports…” The Romney campaign denies. [BuzzFeed]

Stupid Todd [via @anamariecox]

BozoGate: The Complete Saga [Stinque]

“In a May 16 story about the death of go-go musician Chuck Brown, The Associated Press misspelled another musician’s first name. The correct spelling is Jimi Hendrix, not Jimmy Hendrix.” [AP/Yahoo, via @pourmecoffee]

“We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China — which we broadcast in January — contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth.” [This American Life]