Friday morning roundup

The Bahraini government opts out of reform and appears to embrace the (unsustainable) Egypt model.

Afghans love a Corolla, or at least its parts. I love the bumper stickers noted in the last paragraph.

Robinson on why the Beck rally isn't worth wasting our breath over.

Look past the PR; industrial farming is a disaster.

Isn't it interesting when self-appointed pro-democracy activists attempt to oust judges who disagree with them?

I want to like Alexandra Petri's columns, but my reaction to almost every one is, "you have good ideas in them... just too much fluff to obscure them, as well." This last one fell especially flat.