July 10, 2012: Afternoon
- Report shows that drillers' frack water can rise up from more than a mile underground.
- Three months later, judge Cunningham explains why there was no fiction Pulitzer this year.
- Correspondence between Fitzgerald and his editor over finishing The Great Gatsby.
- New game: Was that a quote from Romney or Gatsby?
- Compilation of the best and worst one-star reviews on Amazon.
- Confessions of a a right-wing child star.
- Woman uses cell phone to take pictures during an abortion to contrast pro-life camp's grotesquerie.
- Pakistani children draw pictures of what corruption looks like.
- "Underparenting" classes now available for helicopter parents.
- African drumming in Istanbul.
- Man plays 18-mile golf course (with just one hole) across Detroit.
- Underindulging—temporarily giving up chocolate, even when we have the cash to buy all we want—can renew our enjoyment of the things we love.
- Always worth remembering, many hours can be spent enjoyably touring the Museum of Online Museums.
- Kathleen Turner, John Cusack, others pick their top five films.
- Pictures of drunk 20-year-old bros in 1982 Detroit.
- Physicists say Batman's cape not a safe way to travel.
- Tribute to a fallen, fellow-dirtbag climbing partner.