Department of Weekend Reading: October 31, 2014

Silent Missouri State protesters told to “go back to Ferguson.”
Sullivan: Did a Times columnist actually “throw a hissy fit” about Francis’s reforms and suggest that there should be a schism in the Church?
What happens when straight white boys text.
Everybody needs to calm down about Ebola yesterday.
In 1923, Virginia Woolf was asked by her two nephews to contribute to a family newspaper they were putting together; she went all in.
The Israel-U.S. alliance isn’t quite irreversibly damaged yet, but it’s getting there.
The dismal science and zombies: Economics and the dead.
Who’s fighting ISIS on the ground while the West bombs from the air? Iran and Syria.
Psst: Wanna buy an attorney general?
Print and read: A shattered community regroups at the Ferguson Burger Bar & More.

Department of Weekend Reading: October 17, 2014

And now the protests come even to Plaza Frontenac.
Pushing black voters to go Republican in St. Louis.
If the CDC’s budget hadn’t been cut in half since 2006, we might have an Ebola vaccine by now.
Signs of real-world openness, and reactionary backlash, at the Vatican synod.
The gentrification of the humble dosa and inconvenience as a indulgence of the rich.
It’s not good enough to just jog anymore, the truly fit must now train as if for the apocalypse.
The abandoned mall in Kurdistan where Iraqi Christian refugees hope to wait out ISIS: “There are only 200,000 of us, Europe could take us.”
Print and read: The most devastating thing Europeans introduced to the Western Hemisphere was the pig, and other surprises about pre-Columbian America.

Yes, most of the Nigerian girls Boko Haram kidnapped are still missing.
It’s possible that Mittens was right about Russia.
Jimi Hendrix died this week in 1970, he was 27 years old. In memoriam, read his 1969 interview with Rolling Stone, then watch “Voodoo Child.”
NASA just found a massive black hole (it has the mass of 21 million suns) inside one of the densest galaxies ever seen.
How the day of Scotland’s independence vote looked in newspapers.
One way to boost the economy: Legalize same-sex marriage.
If this doesn’t work, then yes, troops on the ground in the Middle East (again).
The Benghazi hearing where something useful might actually be accomplished.
Print and read: How Ebola jumped from a fruit bat to a child and then fooled everybody into thinking it was cholera.

Miley to Elvis: Is it even possible to steal culture, and if so, is it a problem?
Reasons we might be doomed, #514.
Facebook pays cop’s salary.
By 2030, New York won’t even be among the world’s 10 biggest cities.
Maybe Hamas should have been taking lessons from the Kurds.
This Congressman thinks undocumented immigrants from Central America could carry Ebola.
Archie takes a bullet (literally) for gay rights and gun control.
NPR decides it doesn’t really want their ombudsman being … an ombudsman.
Spoils of war: ISIS now has not only hundreds of American Humvees but dozens of American 155mm artillery pieces with GPS aiming.
“[Eric Cantor]’s got a lot of private-sector friends he has done favors for … it would be easy for him to become Eric Cantor Inc. and make a few million dollars a year.”
Weaponized drones: Pretty soon, everybody will have them.
“Thank heavens, then, for Germany, as nobody has said very often;” Nick Hornby on the World Cup.
Men explaining things to women.
Nixon on the whole gay thing: “I am the most tolerant person on that of anybody in this shop.”
Print and read: The Christian Right gets ready for war.