Friday, March 21, 2014

Friday roundup

Turkey's attempted Twitter ban is adorable and the responses are priceless.

Germany's reaping what its short-sighted energy policy hath sown.

Japan is unique.

As I discussed yesterday and earlier this week, we--our society--has a nasty tendency to define women by the men in their lives (or deaths). At that last link, Alyssa Rosenberg discusses that phenomenon in terms of what's on TV.

Yesterday I also touched on the brutal truth about bacon. Today we can complement that with the brutal truth about dairy.

There's more to Andrew Solomon's book than this, but to touch on just one thing: parents have a hard time not projecting their missed opportunities on their kids.

Was the late Lawrence Walsh the Old Man or the Marin?

No comments: