June 2012
1986. Game 6. 10th inning.
Apparently, Amar’e Stoudemire got engaged.
Tom Friedman turns his centrist prognostication from Americans Elect to the idea that the GOP will embrace environmentalism.
Nice. Talib Kweli interview on NY1.
Propaganda the Nazis dropped on American soldiers during World War II.
Just off the shore at Coney this afternoon: the Space Shuttle.
The history of the Catholic Church’s early 1960s determination that maybe Jewish people were okay.
An art exhibit culling scenes of economic distress from Google Street View.
Nascent forests are springing up in newly thawed areas of the Arctic. I’m sure this is totally normal, right Exxon?
Yo, liberals, the problem with Romney’s Solyndra critique wasn’t that he was a hypocrite, it’s that government investment has real value.
I don’t know why the Brits are spending so much time celebrating the Queen instead of flags, eagles, motorcycles, and barbecues.
An outdoor library in a Belgian vineyard. Looks wonderful, weather permitting.
The reception two Arab-American women received upon arriving in Tel Aviv: strip searches, emails read out loud, incarceration.
Watching birds flit over the walls of Sing Sing last weekend, I should have predicted this: an attempt to use drones to smuggle contraband into a prison.
Those reporting the death of “Family Feud host” Richard Dawson clearly don’t realize that he should be remembered for Hogan’s Heroes and The Running Man.
Remember yesterday when I was lamenting that the screen of my wife’s phone shattered? Apparently, mine felt left out.
During World War I, the British created replicas of dead trees on the battlefield, made replicas that could contain observers, and swapped them out in the middle of the night.
Government spending per capita is lower than it has been since the 1950s — the same stall we saw in 1937.
Remember that scene in Fahrenheit 911 with the oil execs drooling over Iraq? The biggest companies there are Russian and Chinese firms. Sorry, guys!
Evelyn Hofer’s photos of New York, 1964.
Life for an African refugee, displaced first from Somalia then Libya. So much of a man’s life spent unsettled and uneasy; one story of millions.
Independence Day is the only movie savvy enough to have figured out that the world will be saved by Will Smith, Harry Connick, and Randy Quaid.
Chuck Norris aggregated that article on brain parasites, HuffPo-style. Yes. Chuck Norris. (Here’s the original.)
The Santa Barbara News-Press endorsed Orly Taitz for Senate. And you thought the newspaper industry was dying.
Fun: When your wife asks what you want from Ben & Jerry’s, tell her, “a Vermonster.” Watch through the window as the person behind the counter uses hand gestures, explains the impracticalities.
This movie clip of a cat calling for help is spectacularly realistic.
Understatement of the year: “Too bad they did not get the trip in.”
Do dogs feel guilty for misbehavior? Yeah, maybe. Science!
An activist tries to show a Congressional panel a photo of a child forced to bathe in dirty water; staff for Republican members have Capitol Police confront her about child pornography.
Why some (cool, awesome) dudes can’t grow beards.
[Secretary] Clinton took a first-hand look Saturday at the way a warming climate is changing the Arctic, opening the region to competition for vast oil reserves. Nice job, everyone.
AMA request: someone Dan Smith taught to play guitar.
China shattered the windshield of her car, so now she has to get a whole new car. And by “car,” I mean “iPhone.”
USA Today with the big scoop.
Michael Agger took his kid to his first ballgame last night, over in Queens. Too bad they left early.
Ha ha, caring about health is what sissies do. (Am I doing it right?)
Turning gas stations back into service stations, regardless of your mode of transit.
Texas, emergency brake for American progress, is crafting your kids’ textbooks. Is our children learning?
Guys, people like to share trite religious messages on Twitter and the New York Times is on it.
Great explanation, guys. Really helps me understand.
How the New York print press covered Santana’s outing. This is my favorite anecdote: Joy of newspapers: NYT sends intern (the Michigan Daily 2012 sports editor) to cover Mets tonight. Santana no-hitter. NYT front-page byline.— Walter Shapiro (@waltershapiroPD) June 2, 2012
The storm last night knocked a tree branch into our yard. Someone thought it was a new toy.
The US releases satellite evidence of Syrian military attacks and mass graves.
After Amelia Earhart disappeared, several dozen radio signals likely from her plane were dismissed as bogus.