Afflictor: Unable to understand why people think Rick Perry hates women when he’s done so much this week to help one.
- In the next three years, the GOP may face the party’s worst waterloo ever.
- Old Print Articles: A portrait of the infamous town of Deadwood (1877) + Disinterred skeletons become playthings at a mental-care facility (1886) + A life-and-death coin toss occurs in Death Valley (1909).
- Featured Videos: Henry Kissinger is honored, for some reason, at the World Series (1975) + Howard Stern interviewed Scott Thorson, the source of Behind the Candelabra.
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: Convicts are snacking too much + Do you want a way to get rid of your boss, wife and kids? + How can something be so random and so specific at the same time?
- The first mention of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, in 1977, in the New Yorker.
- Sam Lipsyte writing about our reflexive complicity with those who spy on us.
- Worrying about automation isn’t going to put a halt to it.
- David Brin explains that regulation can never keep up with tech innovation.
- Nick Bilton imagines the city of the future in an age of driverless cars.
- Marc Maron conducts an excellent interview with theorist Douglas Rushkoff.
- Will technology create or destroy jobs, ultimately? David Brancaccio answers.
- A new–largely invisible–servant class has emerged in the Digital Age.
- John Malkovich did an AMA at Reddit, and it was everything we hoped for.
- Barnes & Noble’s situation keeps getting worse, though some don’t think so.
- Paperback books were once themselves a disruptive technology.
- Slot-machine sounds may be able to guide player behavior.
- Venkatesh Rao considers the artifice of modern American consumerism.
- The IRS non-scandal was media outlets being fast and first–and wrong.
- Eliot Spitzer, who never texted pictures of his cock, reenters politics.
- If you want to see Old Media futility, watch them try to tear down Spitzer.
- A Catholic exorcist attracted 58,000 spectators in Poland.
- A brief note from 1889 about a town without faith.
- A brief note from 1885 about poison pickles.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.