This looks great—
via Coudal
Some folks are advocating a boycott of the upcoming Olympic games in Sochi, Russia, because of Putin’s anti-gay agenda. But maybe we should deal with our own fucked up laws first: you can still be arrested for being gay in parts of America—and people are actually getting arrested.
Give it at least a minute and you’ll see there’s something fishy about this music video. I’m not a fan of Mumford & Sons’ music, but I do admire their willingness to laugh at themselves.
via Karl
I love that “WWE personnel” is one of the most disputed Wikipedia entries for English speakers.
Fay Vincent, former commissioner of Major League Baseball, says we should increase the penalty for doping to a lifetime ban after the first offense.
Clearly, the deterrent for use of these drugs at the professional level must be tougher. In Major League Baseball, a violation of the gambling prohibition results in permanent expulsion from the game. As a result, there is no gambling problem in baseball. The same punishment for a first-time drug violation is now warranted—one drug violation and a player is gone from the game, forever.
Tell the Baseball Druggies: Strike One, You’re Out – WSJ.com
via Fritz and Libby
via Bill
Life expectancy in various parts of New Orleans:
More evidence that America has truly become a banana republic.
via The Dish
I’m still trying to parse this post from poet Kenneth Goldsmith:
There is dumb dumb and there is smart dumb. There is also smart smart. Dumb dumb is plain dumb and smart smart is plain smart. Smart dumb rejects both smart smart and dumb dumb, choosing instead to walk a tightrope between the two. Smart dumb is incisive and precise. In order to be smart dumb, you have to be really smart, but not in the smart smart way.
Dumb dumb is rednecks and racists, football hooligans, gum-snapping marketing girls, and thick-necked office boys. Dumb dumb is Microsoft, Disney, and Spielberg. Smart smart is TED talks, think tanks, NPR news, Ivy League universities, The New Yorker, and expensive five-star restaurants. By trying so hard, smart smart really misses the point. Smart dumb is The Fugs, punk rock, art schools, Gertrude Stein, Vito Acconci, Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett, Seth Price, Tao Lin, Martin Margiela, Mike Kelley, and Sofia Coppola. Smart dumb plays at being dumb dumb but knows better.