Daily Bafflements

• 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 report from ProPublica draws on secret recordings from meetings inside the New York Fed, concerning the banks it is meant to regulate. “They portray a New York Fed that is at times reluctant to push hard against Goldman and struggling to define its authority,” writes Jake Bernstein. They confirm suspicions that the culture within the Fed has become “too risk-averse and deferential to the banks it supervised.”

• Commuter ferry boat captains other employees in San Francisco are on strike today over contract and health care disputes.

• Thanks, we think, to Baffler reader Craig Kimball for alerting us to Twin Peaks, which Bloomberg says is a “breastaurant” that is the fastest-growing food chain in the country. Hooters apparently “wasn’t racy enough” for the chain’s founders. “Before each shift at Twin Peaks, a Hooters-like restaurant with 57 locations across the U.S., managers line up waitresses and grade them on their looks,” giving points for each aspect of their bodies, clothing, hair, and makeup. It’s like a Miss America pageant, with hamburgers and beer! America.