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This story, about a dissident former KGB agent who was poisoned with a radioactive substance and, on his deathbed, fingered Putin for killing him because of his attempts to uncover the truth about the murder of a crusading journalist, is basically the best news story since the one about the exploding whale.

Discuss.

For your weekend reading:

• Thanks for nothin. Twisty's American Thanksgiving rant—not quite Burroughs, but awesome nevertheless.

• Teaching schoolkids the real meaning of Thanksgiving:

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them.

The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.

You see, I had this whole post that I was going to do today, and it was going to be a brilliant post and everything that would garner about a million comments, but then I completely forgot it because

nihilistic_kid posted this article:

Putin Weighs In on Robots, Sex Following Internet Conference
The St. Petersburg Times

MOSCOW — Russia will use robots to defend its borders, and President Vladimir Putin does not remember the first time he had sex.

After wrapping up an online conference last Thursday, Putin took a few minutes to answer several of the most-popular questions sent in by Russian Internet users, Kommersant reported Friday. The two journalists who hosted the 130-minute webcast had largely ignored the top-rated questions submitted online from around the world, focusing instead on foreign and domestic policy issues.

“Yes, we will use the latest technical devices. Already now they are being stationed, for example, in the southern parts of our country,” Putin said when reporters asked him after the conference whether Russia planned to use “gigantic, humanoid war robots” to defend itself.

Asked to elaborate about what he meant, Putin said: “These are unmanned aerial vehicles. And maybe the time will come for gigantic robots. However, so far we have put our main hope on people — namely border guards,” Putin said, Kommersant reported.

Asked about the possible awakening of the giant mythical octopus Cthulhu, the fourth-most popular question among the more than 150,000 sent to Putin, he said that he believed something more serious was behind the question. Cthulhu was invented by novelist H.P. Lovecraft and was said to be sleeping beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Putin said he viewed mysterious forces with suspicion and advised those who took them seriously to read the Bible, Koran or other religious books.

“When did you start to have sex?” Kommersant reporter Andrei Kolesnikov then asked, verbalizing a question that was on the minds of 5,640 Internet users.

“I don’t remember when I started. But I can remember the last time,” Putin said.

Stealing this from a few people

Better than fiction

Even with gigantic robots, Russia is not prepared for the rise of Cthulhu