After the 1996 massacre in Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia tightened up its gun laws and nothing like it has happened since.- Rushdie on Nobel laureate Mo Yan: “A patsy of the realm.”
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation (i.e., temper tantrums) and other failings of the DSM 5.
- Coming to CNN: the Ann Curry show?
- Executive pay and profits spiking, wages stagnating — blame the robber barons and robots.
- Leo Tolstoy included on book display with other “emerging authors.”
- “He was like a bride who had left me at the altar of difference to embrace the normative” — the fascinations and disappointments of Prince.
- And so yet another government agency gains sweeping powers to spy on American citizens.
- Starbucks pays $620 million for a loose-tea company.
- So if we needed somebody to keep an asteroid from destroying Earth, who exactly would take care of that?
- Should anybody give a damn about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
- Ai Weiwei style.
- Some reasons why Lena Dunham matters.
- The lengths to which Samuel L. Jackson will go to appear in the next Star Wars.
- To solve Congressional gridlock: More kickbacks and backroom deals, Lincoln-style.
Department of Weekend Reading: December 14, 2012
Filed under Omnicultural, Omnium Gatherum
