Tuesday morning roundup

Watch out for norovirus.

I can't speak to the accuracy of this paragraph of Frank Bruni's with regard to Catholics, but it definitely rang true with regard to many American Jews:

These Catholics look to the church not for exacting rules, but for a locus for their spirituality, with rituals and an iconography that feel familiar and thus comfortable. In matters religious, as in “The Wizard of Oz,” there’s no place like home, and Catholicism is as much ethnicity as dogma: something in the blood, and something in the bones.

These tips for dating a vegetarian are common sense. I'm so happy not to have these problems.