Quick Saturday afternoon roundup

Egypt becomes less free, but does anyone (within) seem to care? Daniel Byman and Tamara Cofman Wittes argue that the crackdown will come at a cost.

Pakistan's tribal badlands are coming around to vaccinations (how wonderful to not have Jenny McCarthy as an obstacle to progress).

On authoritarianism, media, and the internet.

On the topic of the end of men (see this morning's roundup): few divorced women have regrets about leaving, whereas the guys do. That's the statistical; here's the anecdotal (second letter).

Don't read this book about writing under the influence, but revel in Yardley's colorful assessment of it:

That is pretty much the poisonous icing on the inedible cake of this dreadful book, an exercise in narcissism and irrelevance from first page to last.