- Get rid of the mortgage deduction; it doesn’t even help the people it’s supposed to.
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Racism in Ukraine: At least it’s out in the open.
- What happened at the end of the NAACP march to Jefferson City after the Michael Brown killing: “Shoot thieves.”
- Print and read: “Do what you love” is great career advice, for a very few.
Tag: Pope Francis
Department of Weekend Reading: January 2, 2015
- Letting Cuban ball players sign to the MLB without having to use drug smugglers.
- Thomas Piketty offered France’s Legion of Honor, refuses.
- Central Park at 4 a.m., between the carousers and the dog-walkers, with only the racoons for company.
- All too common: Scratch a southern conservative, find a neo-Nazi.
- New Pope: Fighting modern slavery also means avoiding low-cost goods made by coerced labor.
- Is Selma fair to LBJ?
- Could Idris Elba finally end up as the new Bond?
- Print and read: American chickenhawks and the military’s collapse into a black hole of praise.
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: June 27, 2014
- Kanye West’s Dune? Never say never, especially after this.
- This is how French nightclubs look during the day.
- The late Tom Clancy “qualifies as a great writer in the same sense that Texas senator Ted Cruz qualifies as a great orator.”
- End the two-party system, finally.
- Facebook still the king of the teenage time-suck.
- Thad “nicest guy in the Senate” Cochran, southern gentleman amid the braying demagogues.
- New Pope, trying to finally untangle the church and organized crime, excommunicates the Mafia.
- Too much money for (clearly) undeserving poors.
- The old-guard liars and dissemblers who have all the answers on the Middle East.
- Print and read: So who lost Iraq anyway (and is that even the right question)?
Department of Weekend Reading: February 28, 2014
- Small-batch whiskies to the sinfulness of weak pours: A guide to Southern drinking.
- More dictatorial bad taste: the abandoned Yanukovych mansion.
- Women make better combat pilots; stories of the “night witches.”
- GOP: Keep the children fat.
- Too bad about Bitcoin.
- The legend of Shakey’s Pizza and other adventures of American brands overseas.
- The “academic suicide” that is the mysterious Voynich manuscript.
- In memory of the late, wonderful Harold Ramis: An oral history of Ghostbusters.
- New E.L. Doctorow novel to George Will on Wrigley Field: Books to look for in 2014.
- First book from New Pope, The Church of Mercy, in stores by Easter.
- Print and read: “It is the cure for the dog that bit you, and how easily you forget it is also the dog;” Roger Ebert, addict.
- Bonus print and read: Max Boot on Robert Gates, one angry bureaucrat.

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