* Fast Food Workers Walk Off the Job in Milwaukee.
* Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided. Phew! Civilization saved.
* Long story short, for every degree Celsius that global average temperature rises, we can expect 2.3 meters of sea-level rise sometime over the ensuing 2,000 years. (U.S. translation: for every degree Fahrenheit, 4.2 feet of rising seas get locked in.) We are currently on track to hit 4 degrees Celsius by 2100, if not sooner. That means locking in 9.2 meters, or 30 feet, of sea level rise. Suffice to say, that would wipe out most of the major coastal cities and towns in the world.
* The unemployment rate for recent grads with a degree in information systems is more than double that of drama and theater majors, at 14.7% vs. 6.4%, according to a recent Georgetown University study. Even for computer science majors, the jobless rate for recent grads nears 9%.
* How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish. More links follow the graph.
* Thank China for the Pacific Rim sequel.
* [T]hey were peppering my husband with questions. Where is he from? Where are his parents from? They asked about me, where was I, where do I work, where do my parents live. Do you have any bombs, they asked. Do you own a pressure cooker? My husband said no, but we have a rice cooker. Can you make a bomb with that? My husband said no, my wife uses it to make quinoa. What the hell is quinoa, they asked. … Google ‘Pressure Cookers’ and ‘Backpacks,’ Get a Visit from the Cops.
* How the NSA is spying on you.
* The NSA’s Massive Call Record Surveillance Program Barely Accomplishes Anything.
* Highest-Ranking Black NYPD Police Chief Stopped and Frisked.
* Conservative Catholics Recoil at Francis Papacy. Federal Judge: Catholic Church Has A Constitutional Right Not To Compensate Victims Of Sex Abuse.
* Uruguay Poised To Become First Country To Legalize Marijuana.
* How the Republicans will retake the Senate.
The states include four Democratic held seats — Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina — and two GOP-held seats — Kentucky and Georgia. And Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) made the case that Republicans will have to come close to running the table.
* Oxymoron alert! Democrats To Introduce Supreme Court Ethics Bill.
* Amazon will sell officially licensed Kurt Vonnegut fan fiction.
Finally, we can finally read the sequels to SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE and CAT'S CRADLE Vonnegut was never able to write! cnbc.com/id/100931129—
Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 01, 2013
BOKONON: You only THINK you know the story. $1.99 Kindle single.—
Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 01, 2013
Kilgore Trout Meets Wolf-Man and the Mummy—
Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 01, 2013
@gerrycanavan I can finally publish my "Tralfamadore Nights" fan fic!—
Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) August 01, 2013
Don't look back. Don't look back or you'll salt-ify. RT @bcook1132: @gerrycanavan Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time…with Dr. Who!—
Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 01, 2013
@gerrycanavan SLAUGHTERHOUSE SIX. DOG’S DIVAN. BRUNCH OF LOSERS.—
James Schirmer (@betajames) August 01, 2013
.@betajames SLAUGHTERHOUSE SIX. How'd I miss it.—
Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 01, 2013
* And in local news: Wisconsin DOT has a plan to fix the worst stretch of road in the city… a decade from now.
