- 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:
