Saturday Morning Links

Happy Saturday everyone! The splint is off, the coffee is hot, the English Premier League is streaming on my second screen, and I’m starting a new job on Monday. Look at these photos from inside the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. It’s…

If you’re not going to observe Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s day of prayer, might I suggest the Day of Debauchery & Gluttony. I’ll be the guy with two feedbags and a Bushmill’s IV drip. If you leave your microphone near…

I had the most perfect onion rings yesterday. I’ll probably rave about them for weeks. Want to know what Richard Nixon testified to during the Watergate hearings? if a federal judge gets his way, you’ll have the chance to read…

Good morning from Iowa! Yes, I have relocated from one place of blistering heat and humidity to a midwest in the middle of a heatwave with BONUS! a real winter to boot. Stay tuned for posts about my attempts to…

This time next week, I’ll be living in Des Moines, Iowa. Anyone want to help me unload a truck? I had some minor food allergies as a kid, and I carried an inhaler back when that sort of shit got…

You ever feel like the invisible hand of the market has been touching you inappropriately? I don’t think there’s any place that feels emptier than an abandoned amusement park. These pictures of Six Flags New Orleans are really powerful. How…

New York made same-sex marriage legal last night. They’re the sixth state to take that step, and the largest so far. What are the rest of us waiting for? Take a rubber tree plant and hook it up to a…

Because there are not enough cat sites on the internets. Dahlia Lithwick asks how judges can decide if threats against their colleagues are protected by the First Amendment. Remember Senator John Kyl’s statement about Planned Parenthood that wasn’t intended to…

It’s day two of National Poetry Month, which means it’s day 2 of our poem-a-day project. Today’s poem is from Sandy Longhorn, and you can get to all Rumpus Original Poems here. The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is now leaking…

Seemingly out of nowhere, a couple of pieces on The Wire, probably my favorite television show ever. The first is in The Threepenny Review, by W. S. DiPiero, a piece called “Who Shot Snot?” The second, by way of Hannah…

Tonight, Supermoon! I would like to note for the record that I am excited for this because of how cool it will look, and not for any astrological reasons. About that NY Times paywall, this doesn’t seem like the most…

This week for me contains both Mardi Gras and Spring Break. Unfortunately, my hangovers hurt too badly these days for me to give this convergence the honor it deserves. This is one of those stories that’s utterly unsurprising when you…