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  An open letter to whoever took this photograph: Congratulations, you have won the Internet. Your photo, while blurry and not particularly well framed, is without question one of the greatest single images in the history of history. Of course you are aware of the photo's majesty, but please permit us to expound on its many virtues as we were rendered speechless after first seeing it and are just now beginning to make sense of all it does. The shirts are amazing. Even more amazing, though, are the poses. The male subject sits slightly slouched staring downward, perhaps at a rebroadcast of "Puppy Bowl." He seems wholly uninterested in the fame that awaits him. And the dog. A lot of pooches lose some dignity when they are forced to wear clothes. Not this one. This dog owns it. Perhaps someday another image will come along that sends our hearts aflutter even more, but we doubt it. We seriously doubt it. Is the photo new? Who knows and who cares. Was it Pho...

MOSCOW (AP) -- Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, reportedly wrote a regretful letter several months before his death asking the head of the Russian Orthodox Church if he was to blame for the deaths of those killed by the guns. The Russian daily Izvestia reported Monday that Kalashnikov, who died last month at 94, wrote to Patriarch Kirill in April and told him he kept asking himself if he's responsible. "The pain in my soul is unbearable. I keep asking myself the same unsolvable question: If my assault rifle took people's lives that means that I, Mikhail Kalashnikov, ... am responsible for people's deaths," he said in the letter. "The longer I live, the more often that question gets into my brain, the deeper I go in my thoughts and guesses about why the Almighty allowed humans to have devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression," Kalashnikov continued. Kalashnikov's daughter, Elena, was quoted by Izvestia as...

By Lina Batarags , Thu, January 09, 2014     In a case that closely echoes one from nearly two decades ago, a woman is suing McDonald's after hot coffee was spilled in her lap. Paulette Carr claims to have been injured on January 12, 2012 while she was at a drive-through window of a McDonald's in Los Angeles. As described in her lawsuit, a coffee that had been closed “negligently, carelessly, and improperly” spilled onto her. Carr now seeks unspecified monetary damages. Her attorney has ignored requests for comments. A McDonald’s spokesperson, too, has ignored requests for comments. In the infamous 1994 hot coffee case, which sparked demands for legal reform, a woman was awarded $2.9 million after she spilled a hot coffee into her own lap at a McDonald’s in Albuquerque. This sum was later reduced to $640,000, and the case closed for an undisclosed amount. Relatives of the woman injured in the great spill of ’92 stated that the woman had suffered third-degree bu...