Thursday, March 20, 2014

Thursday roundup

You have to do some terrible things to get bacon.

Very balanced and nuanced Tymoshenko profile. Also: it's becoming clear that once you go European--even with seemingly minor things like temperature gauges--you never go back.

A pretty spot-on response to the idiotic NPR blog post about which region is worse for women.

In most cases, the answer to "how to talk to your kids about something difficult" is to tell them the truth (in this case, that truth is that there are better ways to help the homeless than by giving money to panhandlers).

Ooh, Schopenhauer on style:
Just as neglect of dress betrays contempt for the society in which a man moves, so does a hasty, careless, and bad style show shocking disrespect for the reader, who then rightly punishes it by not reading the book.

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