“Terry, a retired Air Force veteran and sixty-four-year-old divorcé, is taking his doll for a stroll in the courtyard behind the building where he rents a small apartment in Toledo, Ohio. He takes her out as often as he can, although her seventy-five-pound weight makes a wheelchair often necessary.” Jonathan Alpeyrie shares the stories of guys and their plastic dolls.

+ NPR: Does binge-watching make us depressed? (The key is not to stop.)

+ Forty percent of Iowa voters agree with Mike Huckabee’s description of Beyonce’s music as “mental poison.” (And these folks get to vote first?)