The Michigan-Notre Dame rivalry's ending, but there's a bright spot for fans - SBNation. Great line:
"I took a business trip to Knoxville, where I walked to Neyland Stadium. I meandered through campus, eventually finding that massive structure. Standing on the edge of the Tennessee River, looking up at the imposing stadium on a bluff, I was struck by an overpowering thought: my favorite sport is stupid."
America Without the Makeup: Artez Hurston's Ferguson - The Intercept.
In the minds of some Ferguson residents, the hours that Brown’s corpse lay in the street read like a direct communication from the police.How Ferguson's Rotting Suburbia Helped Create a Powder Keg - Buzzfeed.
“They were sending a message,” said 21-year-old Stevon Statom, who moved into Canfield the night before the shooting and awoke to find Brown in the road outside his home. “’We don’t give a fuck about y’all.’”
The Rising - 5280 Magazine. The story of some of the folks in the path of the worst of the flooding in Colorado last September.
Is There Any Rational Case for Banning Same-Sex Marriage? - The Atlantic. Garrett Epps delves into Richard Posner's opinion overturning the same-sex marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin. When a formerly reliable conservative judge tells the bigots to fuck off, I think it is game over for the gay marriage bans. I see a 6-3 decision overturning the bans in the Supreme Court by June 2016, which will take the issue out of play before the Presidential election.
The Non-Wave Election - National Journal
How America Made ISIS - Tom Engelhardt. I don't understand all this bed-wetting about ISIS. They decapitate two Americans, and now we have to spend billions and billions of dollars killing Muslims? How many Mexicans did the drug cartels decapitate just across that very porous border the conservatives keep saying ISIS is going to sneak across into this country? And while you can never underestimate how hard it is for white folks to differentiate between brown people (to the eternal harm of Sikhs wearing their turbans), I think it would be much easier for a Mexican drug kingpin to blend in amongst the millions of other Mexicans in this country, than it would for some ISIS bad guy to blend in. But hey, I'm not going to shit my drawers because some loons who are busy killing each other don't like this nation of 315 million, with the highest gun ownership rate in the world. Just count me as not worried about those jackasses.
The War Nerd: The long, twisted history of beheadings as propaganda - Pando
North Carolina Men Are Released After Convictions Are Overturned - New York Times. See also, Just Making Shit Up To Kill People - John Cole
This Pope Means Business - Fortune
FAO Numbers In Agriculture Infographic - Big Picture Agriculture
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