Talk about using others for your own ends: A mother has been charged with drugging her daughter in an attempt to have the mother’s boyfriend impregnate her. The quote, above, is from one of the police officers on the case.

Here’s the EJ Graff blog post on international adoptions; note the various links embedded within.

And here’s a picture of an Atlantic puffin, courtesy of the National Geographic website. Just because.

Photograph by Roy Toft