Well, this was a tough one, made tougher by some of our readers mistaking Vladmir Putin for Robert Duvall. But in ascending order, my completely subjective choices for honourable mentions:

"Stay thirsty, my friends" - Terry Anderson

"The line up to drink the dirty covfefe dishwater stretched all through the CNN headquarters and out into the street." -- richfisher

And the free book goes to;

"CNN Editorial Staff: We don't always masturbate in the bath. But when we do. " - Lickmuffin

Shoot me an email there Lick, and we'll set you up with a book.

Practitioners of female genital mutilation are believed to be entering Canada to perform the illegal procedure on girls, according to intelligence reports distributed to frontline border officers.

The reports obtained by Global News show the Canada Border Services Agency has been on the alert for the arrival of travelling "PFGMs," or practitioners of female genital mutilation, for more than a year"

Shut up, shut up, shut up.

Ontario doctors repairing cases of female genital mutilation done a world away https://t.co/t0ZA5c6QUL via @torontostar

— CBA Immigration Law (@CBAImmigration) July 17, 2017

Michael Koumjian, a heart surgeon for nearly three decades, said he considered treating the sickest patients a badge of honor. The San Diego doctor was frequently called upon to operate on those who had multiple illnesses or who'd undergone CPR before arriving at the hospital.

Recently, however, Koumjian received some unwelcome recognition: He was identified in a public database of California heart surgeons as one of seven with a higher-than-average death rate for patients who underwent a common bypass procedure.

"If you are willing to give people a shot and their only chance is surgery, then you are going to have more deaths and be criticized," said Koumjian, whose risk-adjusted death rate was 7.5 per 100 surgeries in 2014-15. "The surgeons that worry about their stats just don't take those cases."

Now, Koumjian said he is reconsidering taking such complicated cases because he can't afford to continue being labeled a "bad surgeon."

Consumers Union, which sponsored the bill that led to the cardiac surgeon reports, supports expanding doctor-specific reporting to include a variety of other procedures -- for example, birth outcomes, which could be valuable for expectant parents as they look for a doctor.

Yet another city has tabled an HSUS-backed ordinance to ban circuses in its city limits. The committee in Newark, OH charged with deciding the proposal's fate decided not to send it to the full city council. A bi-partisan majority, two Democrats and two Republicans, refrained from seconding the motion to vote, effectively killing the proposed law.

Unfortunately, the local Kiwanis club had already decided to cancel a circus later this summer that was expected to raise thousands for charity.

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