Friday Reads

Jockey Mike Smith saved racehorse Mastery's life.
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The Nordic model of prostitution is getting support in Scotland.
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Do these idiot legislators consciously try to outdo each other for sheer stupidity and assholery.
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Obituary: Noted blues harmonica player James Cotton, 81, has died:

James Henry Cotton was born July 1, 1935, in Tunica, Mississippi. He started his music career in the early 1950s as the harmonica player for Howlin' Wolf's band. He recorded some of his first songs in Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio in Memphis, where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and other music legends also recorded.

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