There's no link log for the fourth of June because it was the kind of day nature clearly intended us to spend gardening, not computer-ing. The Internet can always wait. I started collecting these links shortly after midnight.
Demographics
Blowing away some widespread clouds of confusion (click to enlarge the image):
They're not saying that 51% of Americans identify as Democrats. They're saying that 51% of Americans who identify as members of minority groups that "need" special protection also identify as Ds.
Glyphosate
Formal study quantifies something we knew ten years ago:
Green
As mentioned before, I think USPIRG's war on plastic is a safe, fluffy issue to let students doing their first grown-up jobs discuss with strangers. They're not making a dent in plastic use, and wouldn't make much of a dent if they did motivate some sub-segment of some industry to go back to using paper, glass, or metal. We're stuck with plastic for better or worse. And we wanted biodegradable plastic, so is it news that biodegradable plastic tends to, like, biodegrade?
But there may be hope for a world where the only way the surplus population can have all the stuff we think we need is for most of that stuff to be made of plastic.
Fair disclosure: I've not looked up the substantial information...yet. I will be looking. For now, I'll just say that the meme is Out There, and it has plausibility because you see these things sprouting where ashes that include burnt plastic have been dumped.
Poetry
So far, this essay on what constitutes truly daring art has attracted at least two subversive, transgressive poems in the comments.
Psychology
This is cruel, but true...
Obviously, Democratic Party membership does not cause the pattern of insanity that produces homicide/suicide. Drugs do...some street drugs that have passed through the "experimental" period and now appeal only to the suicidally stupid, and some prescription medications that are still given to bored kids and women who don't get enough exercise. People whose minds are in that sort of place tend not to fit in with the N.R.A. So there we are.
Technology
This is good news; we need something similar in Virginia.
Zazzle
Mine:
Not mine, but if you use these links the Save The Butterflies campaign gets more money:
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