Yum: Deep-Fried Butter, Wrapped In Straw Poll

Big doings in Iowa. No, not the upcoming GOP debate and straw poll, which can apparently be bought by the highest bidder. Bigger news is the tribute to the 100th anniversary of the Iowa State Fair's life-size butter cow: fried butter on a stick - an entire stick of butter dipped in honey batter, then deep-fried and sugar-glazed to make sure you don't survive it. There must be an analogy here.

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The Original Gangsters

A lucid look at the causes behind multi-ethnic riots in the U.K. - where black people are 26 times more likely to be stopped by police than whites, unemployment is at record levels and youth services have been slashed. "While bankers have publicly looted the country's wealth, it's not hard to see why those who are locked out of the gravy train might think they were entitled to a mobile phone. (Said one,) The politicians say we loot and rob. They are the original gangsters."

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Action Now: Bank of America Arrests Activist For Asking It To Obey the Law

Bank of America arrested a Chicago community leader for trying to give them a list of the bank’s violations of a newly passed ordinance that requires them to maintain vacant, often foreclosed properties. Marsha Godard will join ongoing Action Now rallies at BOA - after she closes her account.

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Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place

Turns out, when Ken Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters took off on an acid-fuelled odyssey across the country in their school bus "Further" - with the wholly illicit Neal Cassady driving - they filmed, haphazardly, the trip. Now there's a documentary of the journey starring Kesey, that "classic American psychedelic superhero," always with "something bedrock, Western, sawmill" about him. Alex Gibney on Kesey's art piece for a country enveloped in fear: "He was saying, ‘Come out of your bomb shelter...Don’t be trapped in a maze.’”

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