1. “Cop Walks Into a Bar And…Arrests You. For Having a Drink: Texas’ bizarre, racist liquor laws.” by Adam Weinsten at Mother Jones
2. “Give the Olympics a Home” by Charles Banks-Altekruse
3. Improv Everywhere’s “Ted’s Birthday”
4. “The French As Dostoevsky Saw Them” by Saul Bellow
5. “You want to know the surest way that you can spot a ‘sex addict?’ He’s got a penis.“—Bill Maher
6. Remember your roommate sophomore year who was “studying the Dead“? Maybe he wasn’t just a pothead after all?
7. Natalie Angier’s “Bringing New Understanding to the Director’s Cut” in The New York Times
“For two days straight, I went through the movie, ‘Spies Like Us,’ with Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase,” said Christine E. Nothelfer, who worked on the project as an undergraduate intern. “I went through it frame by frame, I knew where every single cut was.” She added, “I still haven’t seen the movie as a real filmgoer.”
8. I wish I had seen The Hurt Locker before reading THIS (worth-reading) spoiler.
9. Hitchens on the Ten Commandments & Carlin on the Ten Commandments
10. inFact: “Fast Food Phobia”