- Pentagon funds well-spent at casinos and “adult entertainment establishments.” You know: for the troops.
- Third-party eavesdropping: We are always listening.
- Babes in Toyland: back to rock.
- Montreal: First Jackie Robinson, then Michael Sam.
- No more casual Christians?
- Back to being okay with the “l” word.
- Sometimes your book ends up in bin Laden’s library and there’s nothing you can do about it.
- A short history of military braggarts from Sparta to Patton, Tom Clancy, and Chris Kyle.
- Print and read: The science of stand-up comedy in China.
Tag: Michael Sam
Department of Weekend Reading: February 14, 2014
- In the 1920s, Soviet athletic competitions (they were barred from the Olympics until 1952) featured no winners or losers, but equality between the genders and cool modernist outfits.
- Western Catholics still think the Catholic Church is wrong on just about everything, but African and Asian Catholics are more amenable.
- Zirin: NFL owners “sound like scared children when they talk about the prospect of drafting a player of the character of Michael Sam.”
- Nap-time to weddings: IKEA in China.
- Marco Rubio and the inhaling question.
- Genetically decoding Richard III.
- One step closer to nuclear fusion power.
- Ceasefire on Capitol Hill?
- Ernest Hemingway had an awesome burger recipe.
- Will Forte is … the Last Man on Earth.
- Print and read: Play as freedom.

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