The Baffler

• Now that the Greek fire sale is on (anyone want to buy the Hellenic post? How about Athens’s water supply?), it’s worth noting that selling off services hasn’t worked out for Greece in the past. In the LRB, Tariq Ali writes: “the largest tax ...

• Dmail, a new email service, offers to self-destruct those emails you regret as soon as you hit send. Unlike Gmail’s “unsend” feature and others like it, Dmail offers you the option to revoke your missives at any point in the future, leaving the ...

• After The Huffington Post announced its decision to cover Donald Trump’s campaign only under the banner of entertainment news, the mogul faced another bump in the road when border patrol agents refused to accompany him on a planned trip to the Texas-Mexico ...

• Progress in the manufacture of flying cars is agonizingly slow! One Massachusetts company has announced it might take another few years of testing miniature scale models in the MIT Wright Brothers wind tunnel “to measure drag, lift and thrust forces while ...

• The Desert Sun reports that the Tex Wash bridge that tumbled to the ground in southern California over the weekend received an A “sufficiency rating” last year: “There are 45 bridges on Interstate 10 that have received lower ratings than the ...

•  Fat cats and other animals of substance are looking forward to JFK’s new, high-end pet terminal, which offers “pawdicures with colored nail pawlish” and dog “suites” which could reach prices $100 per night. According to The ...

• In Cambridge, MA, right in The Baffler’s backyard, a new combination teahouse and coworking space will feature an in-house venture capital fund. While InTeahouse may sound a bit odd, the tearoom and $30 million VC operation isn’t much of a surprise in ...

• Today in billionaire dads: tech mogul Marc Cuban, of Shark Tank fame, gives parenting advice in Entrepreneur magazine. Telling an interviewer that he doesn’t want his kids to be “materialistic,” the owner of a $40 million private jet swears that ...