Friday morning roundup

The rich are defaulting on their mortgages at a disproportional rate.

It's $hit like this that makes me roll my eyes at the ACLU.

And it's $hit like this that argues against donating to colleges, which I can talk about in more detail later. I've given consistently to Georgetown (to my grad program specifically) and less consistently to Smith, but I've recently felt inspired to reconsider that inconsistency. Not because I think my Smith education contributed to my employability, but because I can see, now more than ever, that it reinforced my resistance to general foolishness.

Michael Gerson wins me over with a Che Guevara t-shirt reference.