Wednesday Night Links: Žižek, Affleck, and More

* ‘This is why, back to The Dark Knight Rises, the only authentic love in the film is Bane’s, the “terrorist’s,” in clear contrast to Batman’: Žižek (or someone claiming to be Žižek) reads The Dark Knight Rises. 

* Jane Hu has tonight’s timeline of future events.

* Ben Affleck tapped to ruin Justice League.

* Singularity & Co., Unique Bookshop Will Save Obscure Sci-Fi Titles.

* What everybody gets wrong about Jekyll and Hyde. Bracket that “everybody” and it’s a decent reading of the novel.

* After Wade Michael Page, the suspect in the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting, was fired from a Harley Davidson shop in 2004, he left behind an application to join the Ku Klux Klan. What’s on the KKK application form?

* Will Democrats hold the Senate?

* McSweeney’s has a reason a day to vote for Obama.

* Do-over: Rep. Steve King Wants To Repeal Everything Bill Obama Has Ever Signed.

* Be wary of talk about privatizing the post office.

* And July was the hottest month ever recorded. Enjoy your apocalypse.