Presidential Medal of Freedom

Failed gambling kingpin rewards wife of successful gambling kingpin. [Boing Boing]

Bringing paranoia into disrepute

Paul Krassner on Lyndon LaRouche [Reason. CW: Libertarian cooties]

Thanx to RAW Illumination.

Strange Maps

Dividing the USA into Us and Them [Big Think]

Thanx to Follow Me Here

Lesson

As the UK tries to exit from Brexit and the US tries to deal with the president’s deteriorating mental condition (which wasn’t that great to begin with), I hope we learn at least one lesson: Never put anything to a vote on the assumption that the masses won’t be stupid enough to support it.

The biggest one of all

A company advised by Matthew Whitaker

Among the products that World Patent Marketing marketed were: a "masculine toilet" for guys with giant dicks, designed to keep their fantastic members from coming into contact with the porcelain; a time-traveling Bitcoin-based commodity ("Time Travel X"); and sasquatch dolls whose marketing campaign included an assertion that "DNA evidence collected in 2013 proves that Bigfoot does exist.

[Boing Boing]