Saturday afternoon roundup

The last sentence of this article basically sums it up: there's a double standard. It's like how women in the office are seen as bitchy no matter what they do. The rest of the article sums it up, too: context matters. And the dude was in his own house after a flight from China. For all you know, he was sitting next to a screaming child for twenty hours.

On the Amazon, threatened communities.

The third excerpt from "On Faith" is particularly good.