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-- Although there are only three major species of elephants today, there were more many millennia ago, and they apparently interbred rather easily when the opportunity presented itself. According to this paper, the ancient tuskers were quite easily down with O.P.P. -- Other Pachyderms' Pachyderms.

-- Michael Moore, in attempting to demonstrate a belief that women were better than men, tweeted all of the rotten things women hadn't done. A woman writer, knowing that Moore was full of crap (OK, low bar), tweeted back at him the names of women who had specifically done all of the things he said no woman ever had. This proved that Moore is a dodo-head, which is another way of saying the sun came up this morning.

-- Aw, isn't that sweet? The International Olympic Committee decided that that the Russian Olympic program is all better now and free of doping. Except for those two athletes who got sent home. And the fact that a condition of reinstatement was supposed to be Russia admitting they cheated. Which they've never done. But hey, the IOC has a reputation for spinelessness to uphold.

-- Oprah Winfrey has said that she would need a sign from God to run for president. In seemingly unrelated news, the number of atheists in the United States has dropped precipitously.