Justin Bieber Must Be Destroyed

Pretty amazing photos from yesterday's G8 protests in Toronto. The ultimate impotence of the protest seems captured best by the photo of a protester tearing up a Justin Bieber post. With his teeth no less.

Another Lone Wolf Theory Debunked

A lenghty, investigative piece from MS. Magazine:

Over the past six months, I have interviewed Scott Roeder more than a dozen times, met several times with his supporters at the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita where he was tried and convicted, and permissibly recorded numerous three-way telephone conversations Roeder had me place to his friends. Using information gleaned from these sources, along with public records, it is possible to piece together the close, long-term and ongoing relationship between Roeder and other anti-abortion extremists who advocate murder and violent attacks on abortion providers.

Complete with infographic on Roeder's network.

Beejesus

"Over the course of the fair, 40 000 worker bees were released into the case to complete a wax honeycomb structure over the figure of a martyred Christ rising out of the chaos,his weight seeming to be upheld by the mass strength of the swarm."

James Joyce vs. Ayn Rand?

Random House's Modern Library List of 100 Best Books has two lists - the Board's List and the Reader's List. The top two books on the Reader's List are Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. (There are two more Rand books in the top 10.) The third book is L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth.

Compare that of course to the Board's List top three: James Joyce's Ulysses, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

The Beast of Beauty Bigotry

Deborah Rhode on Elena Kagan's looks and beauty bigotry in The Daily Beast:

Men can gain gravitas with their age. Women risk ridicule for trying too hard or not hard enough. It is a telling reflection of our cultural preoccupations and priorities that Sarah Palin’s campaign paid more for her makeup artist than her foreign policy adviser.

A Street Theater First

From GOOD: For "Street with a View," artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley enlisted the help of a full cast of artists and performers to set up a series of tableaux—including a parade, a sword fight, a rooftop escape, and a perplexing giant chicken—along Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They then invited Google to drive through the scene and immortalize it in its Street View feature.

A "first-ever artistic intervention in Google Street View..."

Best Protest Costume Award

From the LA Times: Activists with the Christian international aid organization World Vision wear costumes with the message "Pregnant With Promises" as they demonstrate in Toronto in anticipation of the Group of 8 summit.