Morning Coffee (7/15/14)

Nadine Gordimer has died.

M.L.B. to Recognize Glenn Burke as Baseball’s Gay Pioneer

Fingers crossed: Cancelled Fox Comedy ‘Enlisted’ Eyes Revival At Yahoo

Julia Turner is the new editor of Slate. Congratulations!

This wine and food pairing chart is awesome.

21 Actors Offer Their TV Characters One Piece Of Advice

What The War Within The GOP Means In Maine

Hee: Young Henry VIII Was One Benedict Cumberbatch-Looking Son Of A Bitch

Morning Coffee (7/14/14)

Wait. What? Clueless Man Claims Territory in North Sudan to Make Daughter Princess

High Schooler Files Human Rights Complaint Over ‘Slut-Shaming’ Abstinence Education Class

The Princess Effect: How women's magazines demean powerful women—even when they're trying to celebrate them.

And a perfect example (though there's some fascinating stuff here): Meet Google's Security Princess

The Emmy nomination process is completely insane

Important, from a lit agent friend: Spamvertisements Are Not Your Friend

Whoa, Harlequin is doing The Originals books.

Speaking of books, David Duchovny's sounds crazy.

Morning Coffee (7/11/14)

Happy Friday!

Let's start your Friday with a picture of Joshua Jackson and Colin Donnell and a rescued pit bull. I mean, really.

Why Readers, Scientifically, Are The Best People To Fall In Love With

Hee: The Thirteen Most Epic Adorable Lists That Only a List-Reader Will Understand!

Euphemisms For Body Parts In Romance Novels : A Ranking (Note: Also works for fanfic.)

Actually very helpful for us old boring people: "Turn Down for What": a guide

I love Scrivener.

Let the BBC’s rap battle teach you about the origins of WWI

Authors dress up as their favourite characters

Ha! How Many Beach Boys Songs Have You Heard?

And if you need a blast of cold on this July day, check out the trailer for Hallmark's Northpole. Tiffani Thiessen! Bailee Madison! Josh Hopkins!

Morning Coffee (7/10/14)

These Hobby Lobby "protests" that serve only to make life harder for the people directly affected by the ruling are so ridiculously selfish and stupid.

Sen. Robert Menendez seeks probe of alleged Cuban plot to smear him

Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol

Ireland Is Having A Meltdown, And It's All Because Of Garth Brooks

Homestar Runner is coming back!!

I don't agree with everything in it, but Vulture's new TV advice column seems promising. "Disabuse yourself of the concept of guilty pleasures, because that puritanical garbage has got to stop."

Not Over Till Overtime’s Due? Met Labor Strife Bares Secrets

One of those celebrity profiles that's fascinating even if you don't care much about the subject: Justin Bieber: A Case Study in Growing Up Cosseted and Feral

Morning Coffee (7/9/14)

New Harry Potter story! "Does Hermione Granger prove that a witch really can have it all? (No – look at her hair.)" Hee.

Awesome: George Clooney takes on the Daily Mail.

Wow: The New Yorker is making everything available online for three months and then instituting some sort of metered paywall.

What I Learned From Talking to Tinder’s Justin Mateen About Women

I still haven't watched the Warren Jeffs biopic, but this liveblog is great.

xkcd is so good at what it does.

Yahoo is trying to purchase credibility with the Community renewal

Dirtbag John Milton

Morning Coffee (7/8/14)

Oh no: all the Crumbs stores are closing. As cupcake chains go, they were pretty good.

"If the goal of life was to eat cheddar cheese and maple syrup while drinking delicious craft beers that kind of taste like apricots, Vermont would be number one."

What Wisconsin's Teenage Girls Think About the Slender Man Stabbing

9000 people became US citizens last week. For one, it saved his life.

Why it’s time to stop the anti-spoiler paranoia

7 potentially awesome shows canceled before they premiered I would have watched most of these.

29 Times Tumblr Made "Harry Potter" Fans Cry All Over Again

Every Irish Novel Ever

Morning Coffee (7/7/14)

Well, back to our new reality:

Supreme Court Broadens Hobby Lobby Ruling to All Forms of Birth Control

Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order

13 Reactions to the Hobby Lobby Case That Are Completely Misinformed

Hobby Lobby Supporters Insist Decision Isn't Sexist, Tell Women to Close Their Legs

It’s not just Hobby Lobby: the pro-life movement is winning

What I Learned as a Woman at a Men’s-Rights Conference

Okay, something fun: A look at "it's almost like another character."

Which Founding Father Are You? (Alexander Hamilton.)

Morning Coffee (7/3/14)

Happy Thursday! Yes, we're doing happy links today because I'm taking tomorrow off. Hope everyone has a great holiday/long weekend/regular weekend/whatever!

American Hero Proves White Men Have No Sense Of Humor

Hee: Someone changed the Wikipedia entry for U.S. Secretary of Defense to 'Tim Howard'

The trailer for the final season of The Killing looks amazing.

Happy first anniversary to The Toast!

Pop Quiz: Can You Identify These Hit Songs by Just Their First Second? I got 13/16. Can you beat me?

A new favorite Tumblr for fans of musicals: texts with collaborators

The Emma Approved actors doing Jimmy Fallon's lip sync challenge is the cutest thing ever.

The Arranged Marriage That Ended Happily Ever After

Heh: Pride and Prejudice vs. Star Trek Original Cast Movies: Epic Six-Part VHS Battle!

The Onion: Fireworks Safety Tips

Morning Coffee (7/2/14)

Does anyone know how it is possibly only Wednesday?

Everything is terrible: Why Ginsburg’s Hobby Lobby dissent might backfire

What ‘Beyoncé Voters’ really want

The Hobby Lobby ruling proves men of the law still can't get over 'immoral' women having sex

Seven reasons birth control pills shouldn't require a prescription

How a "Pro-Life" Makeover Fooled the Supreme Court

America’s Unseen Export: Children, Most of Them Black

Brutal Mississippi Primary Prompts College GOP Chair To Switch Parties

Michael Brown, 93, Dies; Industrial Musicals Gave Wings to ‘Mockingbird’ (I knew the Harper Lee story, but the industrial musicals sound fascinating too!)

Oh, how wonderful: At Angel's Place, child care can be like family

Morning Coffee (7/1/14)

The Hobby Lobby decision isn't narrow

(And here's the opinion itself, with dissents.)

And the ACLU's statement.

Amazing: Mistaken Identity: People Angry at Supreme Court Decision Vent at Blog

Back in Massachusetts: Anti-abortion protesters take advantage of Supreme Court ruling

I think it got lost in the Supreme Court din yesterday, but this Blackwater story is really important.

Men’s rights conference takes aim at feminism

Childhood vaccines are safe. Seriously.

The Royal Houses of Europe