• Preserving the Ferguson QuikTrip.
• Religion as license for discrimination: More Catholic-school faculty fired for being gay.
• The last living passenger pigeon’s name was Martha, and she died in the Cincinnati Zoo 100 years ago.
• The modern school: What’s a book, anyway?
• Yes, looking at those stolen celebrity pictures makes you part of the problem; also this.
• On TV, mental illness equals being totally awesome.
• Calling all D&Ders: The fifth edition of the Player’s Handbook is out.
• Germaine Greer: Fine author, but poor student of publishing.
• Thomas Pynchon’s edits to his dialogue on The Simpsons.
• Print and read: Mauritania still has over 100,000 slaves.