- Miley to Elvis: Is it even possible to steal culture, and if so, is it a problem?
- Reasons we might be doomed, #514.
- Facebook pays cop’s salary.
- By 2030, New York won’t even be among the world’s 10 biggest cities.
- Maybe Hamas should have been taking lessons from the Kurds.
- This Congressman thinks undocumented immigrants from Central America could carry Ebola.
- Archie takes a bullet (literally) for gay rights and gun control.
- NPR decides it doesn’t really want their ombudsman being … an ombudsman.
- Spoils of war: ISIS now has not only hundreds of American Humvees but dozens of American 155mm artillery pieces with GPS aiming.
- “[Eric Cantor]’s got a lot of private-sector friends he has done favors for … it would be easy for him to become Eric Cantor Inc. and make a few million dollars a year.”
- Weaponized drones: Pretty soon, everybody will have them.
- “Thank heavens, then, for Germany, as nobody has said very often;” Nick Hornby on the World Cup.
- Men explaining things to women.
- Nixon on the whole gay thing: “I am the most tolerant person on that of anybody in this shop.”
- Print and read: The Christian Right gets ready for war.
Chris Barsanti 