Title: “Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps”

Author: Kelly Williams Brown

Rank: 36

Blurb: “Just because you don’t feel like an adult doesn’t mean you can’t act like one.”

Review: “Being an adult is hard. It takes practice. It takes commitment.”

Customers Also Bought: “F*ck! I’m in My Twenties” by Emma Koenig

Footnote: At 54, we’ve learned that the easiest way to conquer those 468 steps is to ignore most of them.

Adulting [Amazon]

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Title: “Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us.”

Review: “I had to stop several times to try and figure out a sentence due to the messed up grammar or spelling.”

Customers Also Bought: “Behind the Green Mask: U.N. Agenda 21”

Footnote: Why is the American government inefficient at everything but tyranny?

Control [Amazon]

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Title: “The Great Gatsby”

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rank: 1

Blurb: “The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted ‘gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession.'”

Review: “I found them both to be such shallow creatures that they inspired no pity.”

Customers Also Bought: “Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (Cliffs Notes)”

Footnote: It’s always adorable when Leo plays a grown-up.

The Great Gatsby [Amazon]

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Title: “Oh Myyy! There Goes The Internet”

Author: George Takei

Rank: 69

Blurb: “How did a 75-year old actor from Star Trek become a social media juggernaut?”

Review: “The first 69 pages or so are, as one might expect, the tale of a man in his sixties coming to grips with the modern internet.”

Footnote: Actually, it would be those first 69 pages that fascinate us. Just as a popularized Internet was a world-historical moment when Netscape debuted in 1994, we’re now at a moment when “digital natives” (yeah, we know, get used to it) are past drinking age. As a 35-year-old Latent Geek at the time, the transition was easy for us — especially since, working on a college campus, we were already active on the pre-Web Internet. But consider George Takei as a stand-in for your parents. (Okay, your grandparents. Fuck you kids, your time will come.) What’s it like to be potentially left behind by a profound technological shift?

Oh Myyy! [Amazon]

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We’re following a half-dozen Twitter feeds with varying information, but the Boston Globe is committing to the capture story, “according to an official with knowledge of the investigation”. We’ll see how that pans out.

2:50 am: The FBI is not confirming capture.

3:07 am: Two suspects have been identified by name via police scanners. We’re holding off on the names, but one of them is a philosophy major.

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Something you probably didn’t know about sloths:

Sloths go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterwards. They go to the same spot each time and are vulnerable to predation while doing so. The reason for this risky behaviour is unknown, although some believe that it is to avoid making noise while defecating from up high that would attract predators.

Sloths: They’re just like us! Well, when we’re really drunk.

[via Know Your Meme]

We have an informal rule of thumb: Given a nation of 315,698,590 souls (and counting), even an insignificant percentage amounts to millions — or, for easy reference, the Fox News viewership. So rather than waste our time finding SOMEBODY WRONG ON THE INTERNET, we set a high squelch level: Stupid must be interesting. And, if possible, consequential.

However, in the interest of getting out of this week’s horrorshow/catvideo rut, we bring you Oklahoma House Co-Majority Leader Dennis Johnson — (R), of course — who said something you might expect of an (R) Oklahoma House Co-Majority Leader, and which we would otherwise ignore.

In debating in favor of a bill that would repeal a 70-year-old ban on “loss-leader” selling, Johnson, a small business owner, said service and not price are the key to success.

He then said some customers “try to Jew me down.”

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