Eh...Linkages..

1. How Germany Deals With Neo-Nazis

Interesting for this bit:
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2. Ohhh, Jay Thomas died...I liked him. (So too did a coworker, who I barely knew but was in the hospital. Again, Universe? Evil politicians??? Still here? What is this? The Rapture?)

3. Hmmm...they actually did a Ted Talk on this, and the history of it...apparently the US borrowed the process from their British forebears...

Watch on YouTube

4. What Amber Benson has been up to...which is apparently continuing the 1990s Clueless film as a comic

5. Uhmmm...okay... apparently a theater is holding an all clown pre-screening of the horror film "IT" based on the Stephen King novel about an evil monster posing as clown torturing kiddies. I rest my case, last years evil clown sightings were publicity for the movie.

6. First time a hurricane has hit Texas, specifically this area of Texas in ages...

( video about Texas being hit by Harvey )

Thanks to petz for the link.

7. 15 Times America and Brits Went Head to Head on Tumblr

(Thanks to or rather blame elisi for the link, that I can snark at.)

* I rest my case, Tumblr is impossible to follow and crazy.
* My personal favorite is the Lifesavers vs. Polos battle. No, that was before I read the whole thing...I think it's the battle over who has the bigger cities or fortnight. Oh, as an aside, the hashtag is next to the $ on the American keyboards. (And yes, I've had these crazy-ass arguments with Brits online. Which is why I found it so hilarious, been there done that. Also, why I find myself saying and writing Britishisms...too many years corresponding with Brits online.)
* There's nothing more hilarious than the British and Americans fighting over stuff -- mainly because we're both arrogant assholes that threw our weight around and were governed by white entitled men (well for the most part, the Brits had a few bratty entitled women, the US is behind in that department.)
* It's like watching a pissing contest.
* And apparently the two countries have very different views regarding how to make and drink tea. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I drank iced tea in Britain and they have it. And yes, I've heated up and made tea from a microwave, even though I own a kettle. And at work from the hot water heater on the water cooler.

8. Why you'll never win an argument on social media EVER!