Thursday morning roundup

This journalist set up the contrast between the giant Mao statue and the five-figure, bejeweled eyeglasses as "striking." It doesn't sound that striking given the epidemic of commercialized Che imagery. Anyway, the more important point is that the Taiwanese election has many, including the Taishang, on edge.

Immigration is a huge boon when you manage it.

Gail Collins on the Palmetto State primary.

Mark Bittman writes that we're eating less meat. Apparently, that's not so easy in the midwest.