The Baffler

• Power corrupts everyone eventually, even the most honest of us. It’s science. • Headline of the Day, via Huffington Post: “Pro-Union Burger King Worker Disciplined for Poor Pickle Placement.” (Runner-up: “Facebook apologizes to drag ...

• An Aeon profile of Elon Musk, and his quest to colonize Mars, begins thusly: “‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’” (Via Jared Keller.) • Helaine Olen unleashed a Twitter screed against the “Latte ...

• Headline of the Day, presented without context: “Billionaire Elizabeth Holmes, 30, Wants Your Blood.” • “Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky may be only four days old, but she’s already influencing politics,” says MSNBC’s ...

• Let’s start this week off right, shall we? The Daily Beast would like us all to know that “2014 is the year of the butthole.” A titilating article, but they are, ahem, behind the times: please see Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s piece in our current print ...

• From Mother Jones comes this little profile of an anti-weekend warrior: “Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman thinks days off are ‘goofy,’ says sex ed could make kids gay, and claims money is ‘more important for men.'” • A new investigative ...

• Democracy in Action Headline of the Day: “Another Donna [Texas] school board election worker charged in coke-for-votes scheme.” (From the McAllen, Texas Monitor, via Quartz.) • China’s teenagers are being forced by their schools to work long hours for ...

• If you’ll remember, we used to help the homeless by turning them into walking Wi-Fi hotspots; now we might as well help them by actually housing them inside ad-emblazoned billboards. • Today in Billionaires: Larry Ellison bought an island in Hawaii. He has said he ...

• Today in Billionaires: Some residents of the Dolores Heights neighborhood of San Francisco feel “under seige” by a “massive construction encampment” surrounding a $10 million “fixer-upper” bought (and currently being slowly and ...