Here’s today’s Links We Love:
Stop everything you’re doing and read the script for ROCKY VS RAMBO, an epic piece of fanfic from Scott Aukerman, Harris Wittels, Paul Rust, Kulap Vilaysack, Michael Cassady and Neil Campbell.
Then: enjoy this infinite gif of a tiny-hatted, dancing Ron…
Holy shit, this is a polymathic link-roundup.
Another former inmate at the Marion C.M.U., Andy Stepanian, an animal rights activist, said a guard once told him he was “a balancer” — a non-Muslim placed in the unit to rebut claims of religious bias. Mr. Stepanian said the creation of the predominantly Muslim units could backfire, adding to the feeling that Islam is under attack.
“I think it’s a fair assessment that these men will leave with a more intensified belief that the U.S. is at war with Islam,” said Mr. Stepanian, 33, who now works for a Princeton publisher. “The place reeked of it,” he said, describing clashes over restrictions on prayer and some guards’ hostility to Islam.
Yet Mr. Stepanian also said he found the “family atmosphere” and camaraderie of inmates at the unit a welcome change from the threatening tone of his previous medium-security prison, where he said prisoners without a gang to protect them were “food for the sharks.” When he arrived at the C.M.U., he said, he found on his bed a pair of shower slippers and a bag of non-animal-based food that Muslim inmates had collected after hearing a vegan was joining the unit.
He was wary. “I thought they were trying to indoctrinate me,” he said. “They never tried.” The consensus of the inmates, he said, “was that 9/11 was not Islam.” “These guys were not lunatics,” he said. “They wanted to be back with their families.”
Here’s Michelle Obama hosting an organic luncheon in Maui for the APEC spouses. I’m pretty sure the dude looking a bit awkward is Australian PM Julia Gillard’s partner.
The stock photo on Herman Cain’s “Women For Cain” website has been removed, leaving an ugly blank space. Here are a few of my suggestions for other stock images to fill the blank.
Yeah.
“First base, second base, third base, home run,” Al Vernacchio ticked off the classic baseball terms for sex acts. His goal was to prompt the students in Sexuality and Society — an elective for seniors at the private Friends’ Central School on Philadelphia’s affluent Main Line — to examine the assumptions buried in the venerable metaphor. “Give me some more,” urged the fast-talking 47-year-old, who teaches 9th- and 12th-grade English as well as human sexuality. Arrayed before Vernacchio was a circle of small desks occupied by 22 teenagers, six male and the rest female — a blur of sweatshirts and Ugg boots and form-fitting leggings.”
From the NYTmag’s new cover story “Teaching Good Sex,” we get maybe the most subtle photo caption ever.
obamaobservingsafetyprecautions:
President Obama wearing a helmet as he rides his bicycle. But is it safe to ride on the sidewalk?
