Thursday morning roundup

Somalia continues to spiral to new levels of clusterf*.

Of all the things in Gail Collins' column that make me want to gag, moose chili takes the cake.

The imputed rent from homeownership is not actually tax free. I pay in property taxes more than half (even more than two-thirds) of what I previously paid in rent.

I appreciate the overall point in this article about the region's mixed feelings about its trees, but one part smacks of faulty analysis: hating your neighbor's ginkgo because its (smelly) leaves and berries fall into your yard is not similar, at all, to cutting down half an acre of trees.

Miss Manners reminds her readers why it's best to keep one's observations about other people's appearance to oneself.