• Cosplay documentary film

• Daniel Kalder: “Could I have just stood by the lake doing literally nothing for hours, holding a stick instead of a fishing rod? No. I had to at least allow for the possibility of killing something to enter into the bliss of transcendent calm. Living is a strange business, gentlemen.”

• From the great nation of Kenya: ”Rumor has it that Wini Nkinda is a member of illuminati. After Octopizo now Wini? Only time will tell whether this is a publicity stunt that is working so well to make our celebs famous.” h/t Jesse Walker

• High Desert Barbecue: “Written in a style that might be described as Edward Abbey meets Hunter S. Thompson, conspiracy, arson and ineptitude threaten the desert West, and only a misanthropic hermit, a subversive schoolteacher and an unemployed business writer stand in the way.” ht/ Lucy Steigerwald

• More Candice Huffine

• Kevin Williamson: The Party of Civil Rights

• Penn Jillette has a few choice words for the prez

• Steve Sailer: “The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen’s fourth and—surprisingly—funniest movie, a definite improvement over his biggest hit Borat. But critics, who raved in 2006 about how Borat exposed the anti-Semitism throbbing in Red State America’s heart, are now having second thoughts about Baron Cohen’s unapologetic Zionism. As the Great Girls Whiteness Crisis of 2012 suggested, during the serious business of Obama’s reelection campaign anybody with a sense of humor is automatically suspect.”

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‎…almost everything that goes viral goes viral because someone looks like an idiot in it…so it turns out that the way to control the Internet is to make someone look like an idiot. People like to watch that more than anything — more than the greatest art, the greatest culture, MORE even than watching things on fire! — Jon Ronson

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