Friday links! Chicken challenges, soggy slides and more politics

  • Have you seen the ad where the family can’t put together a meal at the grocery store for $10? So they go to KFC? An Iowa City chef took it as a challenge and wrote about it at Grist.
  • The last time we ran into a rainy-day slide problem, Poppy dried it off with her bottom. This is a better plan.
  • Newsweek has a fascinating behind-the-scenes series on the presidential campaign.