Summer Fun July 8, 2009March 15, 2017 YOU THINK +YOU+ HAD A BAD DAY I owned shares in Diamond Crystal Salt, decades ago, and vaguely, faintly remember something about this, which was maybe just a $45 million footnote in an annual report. Reading the full story now (which I won’t spoil by summarizing it) leaves one’s head shaking in wonder. “Oy,” is the best way I can describe it. (And then, if you’re on summer break, click the “previous” story, about Peshtigo, Wisconsin, or any of the others on this “Damn Interesting” site. A sort of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not for people with attention spans.) PUBLIC OPTION James Musters: “If a public option would drive private health insurance out of business, how – asks Political Irony – do UPS and FedEx survive against the USPS?” FUN Maureen Dowd Sunday on Sarah Palin. (It was less a resignation, writes Tina Brown, than a cry for help.) INDIA GOES GAY Seventeen percent of the LGBT people on the planet were decriminalized yesterday. Read it here.