• The latest #innovation in designer jeans is for them to be mauled and shredded by lions, tigers, and bears before sale; Judith Thurman at The New Yorker connects this to the “sartorial slumming” that has been going on since before Count Tolstoy dressed like the serfs.
• Here’s Baffler blog contributor Ned Resnikoff for MSNBC.com on the recent National Labor Relations Board’s ruling on McDonald’s labor practices, and what it might mean for other fast food workers.
• Grover Norquist is going to Burning Man and that is all we really have to say about that.
• So, yes, we ultimately decided to go with Mark S. Fisher’s “bullshit bulldozer” illustration for our new Baffler T-shirt design, but this design was actually the runner-up.
