Tuppence a day: Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed interstate bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: pigeons. Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago. Experts say the corrosive guano deposited all over the Interstate 35W span’s framework helped the steel beams rust faster. TMI? An

From a blog called (appropriately, though not for the reasons its author imagines) “The Supreme Irony of Life”: At Firedoglake Sunday, Dave Neiwert wrote a good post on being a stay-at-home dad. One of the points, is one that I was raised to believe: People who talk about masculinity — especially conservatives, who seem to obsess about it, but in a peculiarly juvenile way — have always seemed a little

Because I don’t much feel like it today, that’s why.