Saturday morning roundup

North Korea, even more so than before, is becoming one, big prison.

Racial dynamics and disastrous land reform aside, does anybody think the world needs more tobacco?

If you thought you'd heard the wackiest of the conspiracy theories, check these out.

UBS is very good at breaking and dodging the law.

Another story about the price of glorifying the military.

With regard to milk as part of school lunches, it is true that milk is a food like any other: it has nutrients, it has calories, etc. Other foods also have those nutrients, but milk has been argued to be the most efficient vehicle for them. It has also been argued that it has too many unhealthy properties to be the vehicle of choice. Also fair. But even the reality that the article acknowledges--that it's a food like any other--is a step forward from promoting milk above other foods. If it's a food like any other, why require it?

Buses in DC are horrendously unreliable; they consistently screw those who can least afford other alternatives.