- 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.
Tag: Ebola
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.
Department of Weekend Reading: September 19, 2014
- 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.
Department of Weekend Reading: July 18, 2014
- 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.

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