So a guy showed up for his teeth cleaning appointment at Walter J. Palmer’s dental office in Bloomington on Tuesday. At that point, he may have been the only person on the planet who was unaware of the global rage being directed at his dentist, who had admitted to killing Zimbabwe’s most beloved lion.

+ A lion got killed. But as Vox explains, “that’s not enough to explain the surge of outrage. Big-game hunting is by definition stalking, killing, and skinning beautiful animals like lions, and it happens all the time. This case was clearly different.”

+ And from social media to mainstream outlets to Yelp reviews, the outrage is everywhere. This is how we dole out justice on the internet. You know the routine. Character destroyed. Site hacked. Business maligned. But is this internet justice just? WaPo’s Alyssa Rosenberg: “When we all rush in to try to take the place of a system that’s failed, we’re all acting according to our individual senses of what’s fair and right, and we produce results that seem just as arbitrary.”

+ “It’s like you took a wrong turn and all of a sudden you’re standing in the middle of a stadium and everyone is yelling horrible insults at you.” Pacific Standard: What it feels like to go viral.

+ And in other news from the intersection of humans and the animal kingdom: Jane Birkin is demanding that Hermès use only ethically-raised crocodiles for her namesake bag.