Finally, a solution for our old people problem! Inventors are creating new and exciting robots that we can use to keep our elderly occupied during their slow limp towards death. No longer will we be forced to bear the financial burdens of in-home nurses or, God forbid, actually have to spend time with them ourselves. Now we can give them a tic-tac-toe-playing machine and go live our young, exciting lives! This truly is a blessing of technology. (This is mostly unrelated, but while I have you: You ever notice how when you're forced to talk to an old person they always try to touch your hand and shit? How annoying is that?) Anyway, if Science does this right you will never have to hear the story about the time Aunt Ruthie scammed your grandma out of some penny candy her father had brought home from the war again. She can tell it to the robot. Everybody wins!

Here is what 46 tons of pot being burned by the Mexican government looks like. This was in May, and they hired a marching band and everything. They'll be burning even more soon, as military police just completed the biggest pot bust in the country's history: 105 tons of the stuff, wrapped in 10,000 packages, in Tijuana. As the BBC reports: "The drugs, found in houses and vehicles, were wrapped in differently coloured packages that had markings and pictures on them, including the cartoon character Homer Simpson." Who has been declared a "true Catholic," according to L'Osservatore Romano. READ MORE

What does it look like to have a country where people are angry about their government and actually do something about it? Why, it looks like France! With six days of full-on national protests, with half-a-million people marching and students leaving schools en masse and factories of all sorts shut down, this is what you get when a significant percentage of workers have a way to come to agreement about rights that they would prefer for working people. You know: things that they think are in their best interests. Because they don't spend their days in Stockholm Syndrome with the rich, begrudging welfare payments. The Parliament will vote on raising the retirement age later this week. READ MORE

After the magic that was California's debates, last night was Kentucky. It went poorly. Tonight? New York's gubernatorial candidates! All seven of them. You really should watch this on your NY1, when Charles Barron destroys Carl Paladino. Seeing as things went so well in the Chicago governor's race, we can surely do better. By "better" I obviously mean "more violent."