Extra Extra: Ted Cruz Shows Off His Prodigious Basketball Skills
Aug. 29, 2018, 5:14 p.m.
Because you want to know where the puffins have gone, check out today's end-of-day links: in defense of The Smith, RIP HBO porn, ghost lobster, Trump's secret war on weed, Ted Cruz plays basketball, and a seal chases a butterfly.
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- Is there anything Riz Ahmed can't do?
- Outrageous double standards at the US Open: a French tennis player was slapped with a violation for taking off her shirt to readjust it while on the court.
- Eater writes in defense of The Smith, the most perfectly adequate restaurant chain in NYC.
- Where have all the puffins gone?
- A Florida lawmaker called 911 on a reporter for asking questions.
- RIP porn on HBO.
- Mr. Robot will conclude with a 12-episode fourth season in 2019.
- Learn all about the Trump administration's doomed secret war on weed.
- A rare and very spooky ghost lobster was caught in Maine.
- Two women described Louis C.K.'s "uncomfortable" live set: "When he said 'rape whistle' people were laughing, and I was just sitting there like oh my fuck. This is so uncomfortable and so disgusting. Everyone around me was laughing. That was just depressing."
- Screen Crush has an ode to movie characters showing up in music video tie-ins.
- Is Deval Patrick toying with a 2020 run?
- This is the best video of Ted Cruz hopelessly attempting to play basketball you'll see today.
- Balenciaga's $9,000 coat is pretty much a bunch of jackets on top of each other.
- And finally, a majestic seal chases a majestic butterfly in a majestic video:
