Weekend Reading: January 29, 2016

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Weekend Reading: November 6, 2015

The American radio stations that broadcast Chinese propaganda.
Wes Anderson thought about making a Christmas movie because of the money.
The $43 million gas station.
What’s wrong with the electorate, Vol. XV: Ben Carson is Hilary Clinton’s toughest opponent.
So was Lou Reed a total jerk or not?
Ralph Fiennes is now … Lego Batman’s butler. Of course he is.
Why does being a Silicon Valley whiz equal wearing black turtlenecks?
Coming soon to a brain near you: Memory implants.
Jeb! is depressing schoolkids.
The ways in which calculus will save you from the zombie apocalypse.
Witch sues a warlock and other notes from the week that was.
There’s a new, never-before-published short story by Truman Capote.
Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia) marries a couple at her booksigning; meanwhile Amy Poehler played “Greensleeves.”
Be proud, Kansas, be ever so proud.
Print and read: Bet you didn’t know you already agreed to legally binding Christian arbitration.

After each gun massacre, the new hospital pizza tradition.
Fewer guns, fewer shootings—it’s not that complicated.
The lieutenant governor who thinks that “Fellow Christians who are serious about their faith” need to own a handgun.
The ever-shrinking number of Americans who owns guns still control the debate.
Ben Carson, superhero.
Stephen King, pro gun-control gun owner: “Can’t put a seatbelt on a semi-automatic.”
No, a gun-owning citizenry wouldn’t have stopped the Holocaust.
90 people a day.
Here are the people who could do something.
Print and read: The idea that valiant gun-owners can defend everyone from mass shootings is a myth.