Tuesday morning roundup

Foreign fighters are exacerbating to Somalia's havoc.

China's senior barbarian handler speaks out.

The African National Congress sends the leader of its youth wing to anger management classes.

On Helen Thomas's exit: Columns from Milbank and Cohen; brief statements from Vanden Heuvel and Armao.

David Brooks' rambling but spot-on endorsement of the humanities.

I've mulberry trees growing in both yards, but I keep fighting the ones that keep trying to take over my rose bushes. Russians, too, are a foraging people (I have a freezer-full of mushrooms to show for it).