Headlines from June 15, 2012

Interactive walkthrough to the impending Supreme Court decision on the 2010 Affordable Heath Care Act.
The store names? Are you for real? Drinky’s the bar? Fuglees the pub? Woody’s? An open letter to the state of Pennsylvania.
How the hyphen disappeared from “Czecho-Slovakia.”
Germany’s North-South divide highlights cultural differences such as the preferred beer, sausage, and card game.
A Prague brothel lets patrons have sex for free if they agree to have it broadcast on the web. #photos #nsfw
Inside Japan’s “playful and unapologetically sexual” love hotels. #nsfw #tmn
If we come to associate sustainability with its trappings rather than its principles, then the designs that result will risk looking quickly passé.
Photos of the 727 an Oregon man purchased, placed in his backyard, and converted into his home.
Take some time this weekend to complete our 2012 Reader Survey, and you could win a TMN Prize Pack next week. #tmn
Google Street View adds hiking trails. #video
TMN’s Alexander Chee is teaching a course at the Asian American Writers Workshop, open to all, on how to start and write a novel.
In my whole-grain household, I rooted around for decadence among the natural peanut butter and eggplant.
Netanyahu would rather America do the bombing, and he has much more confidence in Romney’s belligerence than in Obama’s. #opinions
If I can’t say the word vagina, why are we legislating vaginas? Representative censored for saying “vagina” during abortion discussion.
Oregon man hospitalized with the plague—on average 11 cases of the disease are reported in the U.S. each year.
U.S. researchers find graphic images on cigarette packs more effective than text-only warnings.
Psychologists find social networks, by offering a glimpse at personal lives, add a layer of hurt to estranged family members.
“Day of the Dad,” our latest TMN Weekender—read it here or send it to your iPad, iPhone, or Kindle.
Turkmenistan counters declining news circulation by mandating state employees subscribe to at least four newspapers and one magazine.
There’s only now and the future with him. McCartney at 70.
Kenya’s rose industry that became an environmental disaster is part of a global phenomenon where profit lures the impoverished.
On this day in 1904, more than a thousand people died when a steamboat capsized in the East River. #tmn
Stirred into this mix is a whole bunch of other metaphorical vectors and fantastical details. How The Flame Alphabet cover came to be.
R. Kelly owes nearly $5 million in back taxes.