Weekend link dump for October 12

News flash: “Reality” TV is heavily scripted and directed. Film at 11.

A look at the extremely warped world of marriage counseling and advice columns of the pre-feminist era.

“The prohibition against clause-final prepositions is considered a superstition even by the language mavens, and it persists only among know-it-alls who have never opened a dictionary or style manual to check.”

It’s okay if support for transit exceeds its ridership. In fact, it’s necessary.

What do the bottom of our oceans look like?

Ebola is the new Africanized honeybee.

Restaurants that ban tipping in favor of paying their workers better is an idea whose time has come.

Feel the pro-life love, y’all.

The viral epidemic of foreign origin we should actually freak out about is measles.

Some towel tips that may help you do a little less laundry.

“That’s right: cutting spending in a slump might actually make debt problems worse.” Germany is the poster child for this insanity.

If you liked “Gone Girl” you’ll probably like this, too.

What the Nobel Prize for blue LEDs is all about.

“People often say that same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the 60s. But in terms of public opinion, same-sex marriage now is like interracial marriage in the 90s, when it had already been legal nationwide for 30 years.”

“Our cultural bridge was built on a shared love of profanity“.

“Poor Toby: you get the feeling this isn’t the first time she got a finger wagged in her face because of something unforgiveable that somebody else did.”

“[Rep. Michael Burgess (R, TX-26)], who voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act more than 30 times, called on the federal government on Monday to use a fund embedded in the law to help prevent a national outbreak of Ebola.”

RIP, Vic Braden, famous tennis coach.

RIP, Geoffrey Holder, actor, artist, Tony Award-winning director of The Wiz, and more.

“Structurally, the issue is the same for Amazon’s warehouse workers as it was for the coal miners. Amazon’s warehouse empire is even a plausible analogue for the coal mines of a bygone age.”

How they created the conjoined twins for American Horror Story: Freak Show.

Voter ID laws are very successful at achieving their main objectives.

Have you recently come in contact with the bodily fluids of someone who has Ebola? No? Then relax, you don’t have Ebola. Please don’t rush to the emergency room unless you have some other reason for it.

Newt Scamander only meant to stay in New York for a few hours.”

RIP, District Judge Harley Clark, popularizer of the “Hook ’em Horns” hand signal and the first judge to declare Texas’ school finance system to be unconstitutional. Either one would have made for quite the accomplished life on its own.

RIP, Jan Hooks, comedian and “SNL” alumna.

Ain’t no brawl like a Palin Brawl, ’cause a Palin Brawl don’t quit.

Doing anti-harassment policy right.

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