Our guest columnist is Albert Camus.

One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual of happiness. “What!—by such narrow ways—?” There is but one world, however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. “I conclude that all is well,” says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men…

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MIT’s Freaky Non-Stick Coating Keeps Ketchup Flowing [Co.Exist, via parislemon]

Lady gets on a plane, wearing this t-shirt. Flight proceeds uneventfully. But as the plane is about to land, she’s approached by the flight attendant:

She then proceeded to tell me that I needed to speak with the captain before disembarking the plane and that the shirt I was wearing was offensive.

Here’s how ThinkProgress headlines it:

Woman Kicked Off Flight For Wearing A Pro-Choice T-Shirt

Yeah. Right. We’re all for obscene outrage, but own what you wear.

Our guest columnists are Jim Conte and Thomas O’Mara of the Great State of New York, who don’t realize that if their bill passes, everybody will sign their name as Jim Conte, Thomas O’Mara, or George Tierney Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina.

An act to amend the civil rights law, in relation to protecting a person’s right to know who is behind an anonymous internet posting.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. The civil rights law, is amended by adding a new section 79-O to read as follows:

S 79-O. Anonymous internet poster; right to know.

1. Definitions. As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:

(a) Anonymous poster is any individual who posts a message on a web site including social networks, blogs forums, message boards or any other discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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“[Public] game management is the last bastion of communism.” —James Kroll of Nacogdoches, Texas, now Wisconsin’s white-tailed deer trustee, or “Deer Czar”. [Lodi Valley News, via @dave_jamieson]

“Hello, Texas!” —Sarah Palin robocall endorsing a Republican Senate candidate, which reached Kansas instead. [Topeka Capital Journal, via Political Wire]