Weekend link dump for July 12

“The most ridiculous no-hitter in history is 25 years old. It’s time to celebrate, marvel and recoil in horror at this game. It’s everything baseball is supposed to be. Just, you know, not all at once.”

“In contrast to the fun, empowering experience of watching Channing Tatum body roll on-screen, social scientists seem to agree that straight women’s strip clubs continue to be oppressive and stereotype-reinforcing.”

“It is cheaper and easier to build wind and solar farms to produce electricity than it is to collect and store the carbon from coal-powered plants’ emissions.”

Hating your transit agency won’t make it better.

Twelve things conservatives are or will be wrong about now that marriage equality is the law of the land.

A list of songs Stephen Sondheim wishes he’s written.

“It was probably the first audition that Katy Perry had to do in a long time – an improvised performance in a former convent to a handful of elderly Catholic nuns who, all things considered, preferred Perry Como. It didn’t go well.”

Ranking every time travel movie ever made.

Even spending a day in the Show is a good deal for baseball players.

RIP, Burt Shavitz, co-founder of the Burt’s Bees company.

I’d buy a home food irradiation machine, too.

Why plural marriage is unlikely to follow the path to acceptance that same-sex marriage has taken.

The latest Cosby revelations…eeeeew.

The stakes of pulling out of these things are very high, precipitating a crisis with Iran, collapsing an international climate framework … taking away [overtime pay], alienating the United States completely in Latin America, which is what the Cuba thing would do. But that doesn’t mean someone couldn’t do it.”

A response to America Ferrera and her response to Donald Trump.

You can all relax now, Harry Shearer will be back on The Simpsons.

“In fact, over the last 40 years, studies have shown that female officers are less authoritarian in their approach to policing, less reliant on physical force and are more effective communicators. Most importantly, female officers are better at defusing potentially violent confrontations before those encounters turn deadly.”

“We have finally found where Fox News and conservative politics diverge: Donald Trump.”

Where’s Sarah Palin when her party really needs her?

RIP, Kenny Stabler, legendary quarterback for the Raiders and Oilers.

Commemorating the Polo Grounds, site of Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard Round The World” homerun and Willie Mays’ iconic over-the-shoulder catch.

RIP, Omar Sharif, actor and world’s most famous bridge player.

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