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Shoppers gotta shop. And beat the crap out of each other over flat-screen TVs. Shoppers wrestle over a television as they compete to purchase retail items on "Black Friday" at an Asda superstore in Wembley, north London, November 28, 2014. Read the rest... “Professor” who assisted in Mike Brown autopsy revealed as “fraud, con artist” Just when you thought the investigation into Ferguson cop Darren Wilson's shooting of an unarmed black teen couldn't get any more fucked up, it gets even more fucked up. Read the rest... Walmart holds food drive...for Walmart employees (again!) Once again, a Walmart store has set out a collection box for food donations to support its own employees, who are paid so little that they depend upon social assistance (and public generosity) to survive. Read the rest... Cop who shot Mike Brown won't go back to policing because “something terrible would happen to him” Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed unarmed black 18-year-old Mike Brown, will leave the Ferguson police force. Read the rest... Ferguson protests at retail stores bring new meaning to Black Friday In Ferguson, Missouri, protests over a grand jury decision not to charge a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen are taking place at Black Friday sales. Read the rest... Watch the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” 88-second teaser trailer The new Star Wars installment, directed by JJ Abrams, will be released Dec. 18, 2015. Read the rest... John Oliver on Civil Forfeiture As always, John Oliver's take on something newsworthy, corrupt, and jaw-droppingly absurd manages to nail it straight through the beating heart. Read the rest... Gift Guide 2014 Welcome to this year's Gift Guide, a piling-high of our most loved items from 2014 and beyond. Books, comics, games, gadgets and much else besides! For Boing Boing tees, check out our own shop. Read the rest... Boutique jeans-maker hiring "breakers" to wear in denim You have to promise to wear the jeans for six months without washing them and upload regular photos you breaking them in to the Historytag site, keyed to each pair's unique identifier; in return, you get 20% of the jeans' sale price. Read the rest... WATCH Jay Smooth: Ferguson, riots and human limits As you'd expect, Jay Smooth has just about the smartest, best, most empathic take on the civil unrest in Ferguson following the failure of the prosecutor to secure an indictment. He quotes Martin Luther King: "riots are the language of the unheard." (via Waxy) Read the rest... Second career of choice for disgraced cops: cop When cops are fired or forced to resign for malfeasance, chances are they walk straight into another law enforcement job -- in LA, the Sheriff's Department operates a revolving door between its police force and its notoriously corrupt jails, transferring its worst police offers into its custodial service. Read the rest... DC cops budget their asset forfeiture income years in advance The DC force plans out how much stuff they'll steal from the public through the corrupt "asset forfeiture" program years in advance, almost as though they don't rely on crime to seize assets, but rather just arbitrarily grab stuff from people and sell it to pay their bills. Read the rest... WKRP's fantastic Thanksgiving turkey giveaway "The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!" A few years back Cory shared a 30 second version of WKRP's fantastic Thanksgiving episode, if this 5 minute cut is too much. Read the rest... Analysis of leaked logs from Syria's censoring national firewall Syria's brutal Assad government uses censorware from California's Blue Coat System as part of its systematic suppression of dissent and to help it spy on dissidents; 600GB of 2011 logs from Syria's seven SG-9000 internet proxies were leaked by hacktivist group Telecomix and then analyzed by University College London's Emiliano De Cristofaro. Read the rest... Music: "Alice's Restaurant," Arlo Guthrie (1967) Happy Thanksgiving! Read the rest...