I don’t know what this calcified, ingrown mass on my thigh is, but I picked at it—and now the fucking thing won’t stop bleeding.

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From the Bennington Banner: Rep. Bernard Sanders used campaign donations to pay his wife and stepdaughter more than $150,000 for campaign-related work since 2000, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Jane O’Meara Sanders, his wife, received $91,020 between 2002 and 2004 for “consultation” and for negotiating the purchase of television and radio time-slots for Sanders’ advertisements, according to records and interviews. Approximately $61,000 of that was “pass

One morning, as Greg Samsa awoke from an anxious sleep, he discovered he’d been changed into a giant Wendy’s Fried Chicken Strip Salad™. He lay on his leafy green back and saw, after nosing aside a recalcitrant crouton, his golden brown abdomen—oil-soaked and glistening, ridged in that bumpy way deep-fry batter bubbles then settles crust-like on a stretch of succulent all-white chicken meat. From this strange position he noticed his