In retrospect, eclipse glasses are a great case for likely market failure. Heather Murphy reporting for The New York Times uncover this gem from a seller “duped” by their supplier:

A longtime Republican, skeptical of government regulation, she said that the experience reminded her of its occasional value.

“You’ve got to have boundaries or there is chaos,” she observed.

And so Karl Rove reviews Walk It Back:

[S]tarts with a Euro Tech Pop thing and transition into a more peppy tune that’s easier to dance to and has a sound track that on YouTube is impossible to heard. Suspect it won’t make Casey Kasem’s Top 40.

Is Casey Kasem still a thing? Does Rove know Kasem the now deceased Kasem was an Arab-American? Does Karl Rove listen to dance music on the regular? To be honest, this all just raises so many more questions than it answers.

In any event, The National have responded:

Fuck you, Karl.

Amanda Petrusich reviews Sleep Well Beast for The New Yorker:

What this sounds like is: I am sorry you don’t love me enough.

Wtf.

Also:

Breast-milk cheese forces babies to compete with hipster foodies for mother’s milk, and a baby can’t punch a foodie in the face.

Yup.

I ♥ NY (and Annie Clark).

New album in October.

Mallory Ortberg is amazing:

[A]sk yourself that time-honored question, “Do I sound like a villain in a Reese Witherspoon movie?”

Lindy West for The New York Times:

Ivanka Trump is never going to come through. Coming through isn’t her function. She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on the challenges facing working women so that she can sell more pastel sheath dresses.

Alternate title: Boston-based group finally finds a use for the Apple Watch.