Friday roundup

China's rhetoric has always been "impressive," but I have to cringe when "without bloodshed" is so narrowly defined and yet, still vaunted.

This is hilarious in so many ways:

“I think this is how global capital should be welcomed wherever it goes,” Mr. Ozbek told NTV on a live broadcast...

The hurled shoe lost speed after it hit a seated student posing a question with a microphone in hand, and so it missed the director, slow-motion television pictures showed. But while a Turkish shoe company claimed to have made Mr. Zaidi’s shoe — a statement that promptly increased its sales worldwide — Mr. Ozbek’s shoe was reported to have been made by Nike.

It's a relief that the shock jocks'/pundits' followings are smaller than they appear, but I maintain that we'd be better off as a nation with a meaningful opposition.

Good for her for speaking up about abysmal bus-driver behavior.

According to Steve Pearlstein, Michael Moore's new film suffers from a lack of accuracy and nuance.

John Oliver's hilarious report on protesters.