Happy June, boys and girls! One of my favorite months, the official start of summer (aka fog season in Ess Eff) and when things can get interesting in baseball.  The Cynica household in Oregon opened the garden cocktail corner for business and there are strawberries, ice cream, and wine available.  Yay, drinks on the Willamette!

And this June is also the 40th anniversary of two iconic events that reverberate to this day. I’d advise you pour yourself an adult beverage before following me after the jump. And make yourself comfortable in the cocktail corner, or make sure that your bartender is close at hand.

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“PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question. About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, but with God’s guidance; 15% say humans evolved, but that God had no part in the process.” [Gallup]

(using fingers to indicate triangular shape) SMELL SMELL SMELL GOOD NEW NEW NEW slice drink MATCH SPARKLER (thrown in air) STARS STARS STARS

— Horse ebooks (@Horse_ebooks) June 1, 2012

You should know, if you don’t yet, that @Horse_ebooks is an automated spam account. But to cover its tracks, it tweets random non-spam to fool the automated spamhunters. Most days there’s a gem or two in the stream. And then, every once in awhile, your patience is richly rewarded.

Let the beatings continue until morale improves:

Greece is broke and close to being broken. It is a country where children are fainting in school because they are hungry, where 20,000 Athenians are scavenging through waste tips for food, and where the lifeblood of a modern economy – credit – is fast drying up.

It is a country where the fascists and the anarchists battle for control of the streets, where immigrants fear to go out at night and where a woman whispers “it’s like the Weimar republic” as a motorcycle cavalcade from the Golden Dawn party, devotees of Adolf Hitler, cruises past the parliament building. Graffiti says: “Foreigners get out of Greece. Greece is for the Greeks. I will vote for Golden Dawn to remove the filth from the country.”

The people Atrios refers to as our Galtian Overlords are truly horrible. This is what happens when people have no jobs and no money.

Troubled Greece: Fears of ‘First Domino’ to Fall as Austerity is Counted a Failure [HuffPo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3BGkOKVMUU

We imagine we’re supposed to be impressed by 1) Sliding into a parking spot with less than six inches to spare, 2) Japanese drivers subverting the stereotype, and 3) Minis being good for something besides subway chases. But it strikes us that if you’re going to declare a world record for “parallel parking”, one of the conditions needs to be that you’re free to leave.

[via Nerdist]

NASA imagines Earth’s night sky four beeeeeelion years from now, when Andromeda Strains comes crashing into the Milky Way. If it’s any solace, by then we’ll all be fried to a crisp by the Sun anyway.

NASA Predicts Our Galaxy Will Collide With Another In 4 Billion Years [TPM]