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Yesterday, the Obama administration announced that the definition of rape will finally be updated to include shit you already probably thought should've been in there. This is important because crime rates as reported by the FBI are used to determine how much money is allotted to anti-rape initiatives and victims' services. More »
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Today, the FBI will finally vote on a new definition of rape that will take the place of the current model, and antique from 1929. Victims' rights activists are applauding the move and calling the change long overdue, since the current definition of rape basically said that in order for a woman to be legally raped, Genghis Khan himself needs to travel through time and abduct her to China in front of at least 5 witnesses. Also she has to be a nun. More »
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Yesterday a FBI subcommittee recommended that the agency's definition of rape be updated for the first time since 1929. According to the current definition, only crimes that fit this description are included in the FBI's annual crime report, which helps determine how resources will be allocated: More »
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Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who the FBI believes molested around 40 underaged girls, was assisted by a prominent modeling agent and scout. Here's what we know about Jean Luc Brunel. More »
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Weird Elvis-'n-Nixon-style fun-fact: In an attempt to learn more about the bondage-photography scene, in 1957 J. Edgar Hoover (of course) had his spook contact the queen of pin-up herself. Bettie Page was more than accommodating! [TSG] More »
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Andrew Young has been ordered to turn over all copies of the John Edwards sex tape. Young was held in contempt on Thursday for his refusal to deliver the original, which he kept in a safe box in Atlanta. [Politico] More »
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• A stray poodle delayed at least 8 flights at Boston's Logan Airport for about 20 minutes on Sunday when it frolicked on the tarmac. • A new study has found that women who take flaxseed oil in the last two trimesters of pregnancy increase their risk of giving birth prematurely. • More science: a recent study has found that breast-feeding is not a cause of sagging breasts post-pregnancy. • More »
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• Obama's finally decided on a running mate! He's just not going to tell you who, though, so there. He says it's someone without a big ego, so Karen Tumulty thinks it isn't Biden, CNN's confirmed it's not Sam Nunn, and I wonder where on Earth he found a politician without a huge ego. [Associated Press, Time, CNN]
• Speaking of enormous (and undeserved) egos, Rush Limbaugh's at it again, complaining that us Lesbian Feminazi Bonerkillers won't let him hit "girls." Oh, and Barack Obama is a "little black man-child." Dude, are the people that syndicate his show just going to let him show up in a white hood, too? [Media Matters]
• By the way, McCain has finally found a point below which he won't stoop to pander to the electorate — he won't take a pledge to serve only one term (that he wouldn't intend to keep anyway) just so people will stop "wondering" about his advanced age. Glad to know there's a floor! [Politico]

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