Thursday, December 4, 2014

Thursday roundup

The UN has run out of food money for Syrian refugees.

Superbugs are killing babies in India.

Burma's jade industry is fueling heroine addictions.

Falling oil prices have geopolitical implications.

Does the press have an institutional bias against Israel?

Charles Blow (twice) and Nicholas Kristof on race. Chris Rock on race and everything else (it's an amazing interview; suggest reading it in full).

How the Eric Garner case would be covered here if it had happened abroad.

Don't buy Dr. Watson's Nobel Prize.

Journalists are a little too happy to play 'gotcha' around the Rolling Stone story, given the context.

Free speech is not speech without consequences; it's speech without police interference. For more on Lautengate

Oh, she's a big fan of the Daughters of the American Revolution. That explains it.

Get your mushroom clouds right.

We've gotta eat less meat if we want to curb climate change.

I'd never cared enough to hate Anne Hathaway, but I have no time for ex-vegans who go down to eating nothing and then say that veganism is unsustainable. I can assure you that vegans have more choices than "rows of garbanzo beans."

Dulles is losing business (because it sucks).

I don't agree with everything in this column, but I do agree with the gist: tipping is a broken system, but don't take it out on people who depend on tips.

It's been a rough news week, but here's a story to restore your faith in humanity.

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