Wednesday morning roundup

This represents a giant leap for Mexico but peace and public safety remain  huge challenge.

We can help Mexico by helping ourselves.

Indefinite solitary confinement serves no one.

I don't know what Maureen Dowd's problem is; French niceness is only disorienting if you're blinded by your own stereotypes.

Meet the man who gave us ctrl-alt-del.

Meet the Midwestern Taliban; you might want to get your burqa ready.

Dude goes out of his way to not read anything by women.

Have you ever washed your hair in space?

People have trouble learning, no matter whether it's art or poetry or science, when they expect everything to snap into place. On that note: what artists and scientists have in common.

This is what a friend once referred to as "the people you run into when you drop off your dry cleaning," and it's really true.