July 3, 2012: Afternoon
- Emails show Paterno played a key role in Sandusky’s never being reported to authorities.
- The Euro Cup proves you don't need good politics to host a global sporting event—no one cares.
- Washington DC's Vietnamese restaurants rely on Hispanic cooks for survival.
- Total biomass of all the world's livestock is almost exactly twice that of humanity itself.
- Wells Tower spends a week with porn star James Deen.
- If you want to drink with the Chinese, you have to suffer baijiu—or learn to like it.
- French minister cuts costs by removing champagne from official menus.
- French law makes it compulsory for all drivers to carry a breathalyzer kit in their vehicles.
- Pictures of Paris (1950-72) shot from a single-engine army plane.
- In case you missed it—excerpt of Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down.
- John Adams told his wife that the second of July would be a day forever "solemnized with Pomp and Parade."
- Poems to celebrate Independence Day.
- The "hora" isn't a Jewish wedding dance, it's a Romanian royalty rite.
- Neil Harbisson, colorblind, uses a prosthesis to turn color into sound.
- Tuesday afternoon poem: "There Is No Word" by Tony Hoagland.
- In years of shopping at Uniqlos, I never once found them to be out of a size or color in a garment. It's consistent. It's relentless. It's kind of like Djokovic.