Driftless Musings

An NPR audience poll to select the 100 best young adult books coughed up 75,000 voters and just two books with non-white protagonists. Even a winning writer complained. Kill the judges? No, the enemy is us. Book editors ask for a solution.

via When A Popular List Of 100 ‘Best-Ever’ Teen Books Is The ‘Whitest Ever’ : NPR Ombudsman

Tweet of the Day: Ronan Farrow, the 24-year-old sole biological child of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, has never been a fan of his father’s marriage to Soon-Yi Previn, who is also Ronan Farrow’s adopted sister.

Mia Farrow’s “boom” retweet? Perf.

Fathers Day Saturn

Here is the ringed titan with four of his children. Can you spot them? You might need to zoom in a bit.

Photo: Josefine Jönsson Model: Insanitea Latex: Maebelle Latex Wig: Navalith Hair Design

When I was little, I believed in Santa Claus. All the other kids believed in him, and there was an overwhelming mainstream culture in place supporting my belief in him, and my parents told me he was real.

President Obama Becomes the First American President to Back Same-Sex Marriage

“I’ve just concluded, for me, personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,” Obama said in an interview with ABC News.

Obama, who had previously backed strong protections for gay and lesbian couples, said his position had evolved partly after talking to his two daughters Malia and Sasha who had some friends who had same-sex parents.

“It wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective,” Obama said in the interview.

Supermoon teaser taken at 9:12 PM MST from Aurora, Colorado, USA with a Canon PowerShot SX30 IS.

Cinco de Mayo: Long Before It Was Corporatized - Los Angeles, CA, 1943