Liberals, apparently, are having a hard time incorporating libertarian Whole Foods CEO John Mackey into their worldviews (New Yorker), while Reason‘s Matt Welch is not.
Correlation between playgrounds and economic class in NYC, or Sesame Street unpaved (Sociological Images)
The Night Before Christmas, in legal language (TaxProf Blog)
More doom and gloom from Niall Ferguson re: America vs. the East (Financial Times)
Why do we say “men and women” but “ladies and gentlemen?” Read this very long, very dry post to find out (Language Log)
One thing journalists are actually good at: writing condescendingly about poor people (Aid Watch)
Hero of the day: This Chinese man, who calmly picked up his bike and threw it at thieves escaping on a scooter:
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