mashup A 'Matilda' musical number set to Rob Zombie Rusty Blazenhoff

crime We Have The Herpes: Arby's worker accused of infecting customer by spitting in food Rob Beschizza

politics Raw milk parties make me want to barf Jennifer Sandlin

education McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal Cory Doctorow

History "Capitalism has outlived its usefulness" -Martin Luther King, Jr Cory Doctorow

handsy hockenberry Disgraced radio host publishes 7000-word pity piece about himself in Harper's Rob Beschizza

History Martin Luther King, socialist: "capitalism has outlived its usefulness" Cory Doctorow

John Dee was the 16th century's real-life Gandalf Jason Louv

books Jo Walton's "My Real Children" [book excerpt] Boing Boing