Weekend link dump for June 12

How many weeks till school starts again?

Never has the phrase “The jokes just write themselves” been more true.

Sarah Palin really doesn’t know much about history.

My Internet routine is similar to this, though with email and social networks swapped, and without that strong a distinction between blogs/RSS and news or entertainment. And it gets repeated ad infinitum over the course of the day.

Thirty years of HIV.

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand problem. This will be fun to watch.

What the “Slut Walks” are all about.

RIP, Dr. Irwin D. Mandel, the reason why most of us have the toothbrushing and flossing habits we have today.

New flash: Grover Norquist is a fraud.

The history of ESPN, for good and not so good.

Password security is hard.

Another reason to love the Alamo Drafthouse. Please, y’all, buy or build a theater closer to my house.

“[E]ven in a post-apocalyptic world, I think I’d rather take my chances as a novice hunter-gatherer in a barren, radiation-saturated wasteland than rely on a stockpile of Candwiches.”

“Let’s be clear: Prison is for poor people. Prison is not for rich people. Prison is for people who cannot buy their way out.”

My endorsement is not for sale, and even if it were you couldn’t afford it.

A time-based transit map, via Metro‘s blog. Very cool. Now Metro needs to make that happen, too.

Don’t sign any bills longer than your supporters can read.

If Wal-Mart employees can unionize in other countries, they damn sure ought to be able to unionize here.

A clearer example of IOKIYAR you couldn’t find.

The top ten Republican environmental flip-floppers.

I don’t know who “Gus Allen” is, I just know that Gus runs an excellent blog and should be left alone to do that.

You can’t keep Alabama down. The Lord who brought you out of Egypt would not approve.

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