A medium-length list this time:
- A Megabus exploded outside Chicago yesterday, but that shouldn't scare you away from intercity buses.
- Let's not forget that Antonin Scalia tried to take the country backwards, and was an intellectual phony on top of it.
- BBC Radio 4 has just released a new adaptation of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, featuring James McAvoy and Natalie Dormer.
- While Flint, Mich., has bad things in its municipal water supply, Chicago's isn't much better.
- California tax offices have had to adapt to taking in large amounts of (herbal-scented) cash, because Federal banking regulations make it nearly impossible for marijuana sellers to open bank accounts.
- Paul Krugman is not shilling for Hilary Clinton, so stop accusing him of corruption. We Democrats are better than that.
- The Chicago Transit Authority has floated a plan to buy $2-3 billion in new rail cars, but there's a little more to the deal than meets the eye.
- Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee made Jewish humor mainstream.
And this brings me to lunch.