A pile of links to help end your weekend in Big Fun.

• Glenn Greenwald at his fiery best: “Indeed: is there even a sin­gle lib­eral pun­dit, blog­ger or com­men­ta­tor who would have defended George Bush and Dick Cheney if they (rather than Obama) had been secretly tar­get­ing American cit­i­zens for exe­cu­tion with­out due process, or slaugh­ter­ing chil­dren, res­cuers and funeral atten­dees with drones, or con­tin­u­ing indef­i­nite deten­tion even a full decade after 9/11? Please. How any of these peo­ple can even look in the mir­ror, behold the ooz­ing, lim­it­less intel­lec­tual dis­hon­esty, and not want to smash what they see is truly mys­ti­fy­ing to me.”

• If you’re not following Slim Goodbody on Twitter, then you’re missing out.

• Jack Shafer discussing Newt Gingrich‘s thin skin: “Journalists are easy to vil­ify because they’re emi­nently vil­i­fi­able. Their job is to intrude, to ignore deco­rum and to sow chaos where har­mony pre­sides. Show me a jour­nal­ist and I’ll show you some­thing not to like. Put me in front of a mir­ror and I’ll show you some­thing to despise. It’s that sort of pro­fes­sion. But for Gingrich to com­plain about intru­sive ques­tions at a debate is a lit­tle like a patient who com­plains that his doc­tor touched his pri­vate parts dur­ing a sched­uled phys­i­cal exam: Hey, buddy, the probes come with the appoint­ment!”

• Los Angeles Times: “Police were able to lure a naked man who spent hours atop a downtown radio tower with McDonald’s hamburgers.”

• Pravda: “The fem­i­nists’ move­ment in the 1970s and the efforts of the American Conservative gov­ern­ment under President Ronald Reagan helped the tri­umphant return of vibra­tors in the hands of American house­wives. Under the frame­work of the cam­paign to com­bat AIDS a civil ser­vant, U.S. mil­i­tary doc­tor, General Everett Koop in May of 1988 pub­lished an eight-page brochure where along with the use of con­doms he also rec­om­mended to use vibrators.”

• Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier: “The NFL is done for the year, but it is not pure fantasy to suggest that it may be done for good in the not-too-distant future. How might such a doomsday scenario play out and what would be the economic and social consequences?“

Lastly, the fan boy in me remains incapable of waiting for this film. I’ve watched the trailer nearly 50 times. If indeed there are #Occupy elements to it, as some have posited, then the movie makes #Occupy look a lot sexier, darker and more enticing than real-life #Occupiers do. (Also, the Bane character wears the same sheepherder jacket and sports the same haircut that I do, so I feel excellent about that.)

 

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