July 9, 2012: Afternoon
- The New Yorker cover that would have run if the Affordable Health Care Act had been struck down.
- How CNN and Fox screwed up the Supreme Court Obamacare decision.
- Self-published science e-books are democratizing crackpottery; a review of Indivisible Earth: Consequences of Earth's Early Formation as a Jupiter-Like Gas Giant.
- Another ecologist friend soon admitted that he, too, planned to be fed to ravens when he died, by having his ashes mixed with raw hamburger.
- "Georgetown's worst marriage"—complete with DC status anxiety, high-ranking officials, 44-year age difference, and murder.
- A Fourth Amendment close reading of Jay-Z's "99 Problems."
- Catching up with Spike Lee.
- How Brooklyn became the writing factory of America.
- Counterpoint: It was already writer central back then. Foer hadn’t yet bought his giant house with Nicole yet.
- Retracing the history of the most influential band to never make it big: the Big Star Story blog.