Thursday morning roundup

Once in a while, the Onion comes out with an article that's not that much of a stretch.

And once in a while, a Times article contains an enormously obvious "ya think??":

“The way we manage the global agriculture and food security system doesn’t work,” said Kostas G. Stamoulis, a senior economist at the organization. “There is this paradox of increasing global food production, even in developing countries, yet there is hunger.”

I'm being facetious-- it's great that that statement is being published, and it's an excellent article.

David Rohde's escape and epilogue.