Tuesday!

* Boogie Woogie Flu has 70 bootlegs and covers in honor of Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday.

* My father sends along this 3-dimensional tour of Detroit’s crumbling Michigan Station.

* Duke is officially off coal.

* White people officially have no idea what racism is.

* The Rapture has been officially rescheduled.

* Eric Cantor is officially a monster.

* And speaking of monsters: Climate scientists still can’t get their calls returned in Washington. History will not be kind.

Sunday Morning Post-Rapture Links

* Pharyngula, buzzkill, makes the whole “Rapture” craze this weekend seem a lot less funny. At least we’ll always have alternative_eschatology.jpg.

* The headline reads: “Utah law makes acting sexy illegal.” Just don’t tell the atheists.

* How a third-party Palin run might benefit the GOP.

* How the Big Bird puppet works. I don’t know that I ever really thought enough about this to have a “theory” on how Big Bird works, but I definitely thought Big Bird was more of a suit than a puppet—which I realize in retrospect is about as close to “I always thought Big Bird was real” as an adult can comfortably get.

* Mitch Daniels won’t run. This is very good news for Pawlenty, who looks increasingly unbeatable—though a number of my right-wing relatives who used to think experience was the most important qualification for the presidency seem quite enraptured with pizza magnate Herman Cain. The rest of my Republican relatives appear, unbelievably, to be waiting for Jeb.

* Mark Schmitt on intergenerational warfare from Paul Ryan and the GOP. Via Matt Yglesias, who highlights once again the centrality of 1973/1974 as the key turning point in U.S. economic and political history.

* More intergenerational warfare from the GOP: Newt wants poll tests for “young people.”

* And a single, striking thought: what if all the objections to Marx’s thought are mistaken?

Aliens Rescue Animals from Central Park Zoo (1981)

From Anton van Dalen, via Tumblr.