How Russia became Alcoholic, and the government’s contradictory attempts on that score.  Leaves out Yeltsin for some reason.

Glenn Beck misuses the word “literally’.  Unless, you know, you’re actually in a book.  Or this is somehow the year 1984.

Twitter more invasive than Facebook now.

9 out of 10 British men lie about liking sports.

Counter-intuitive:  Obama’s playing his second term well.

From Harpers:  Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi announced that he would not relinquish his senate seat despite a conviction for tax fraud earlier this year and a police investigation into his alleged solicitation of underage prostitutes. “Berlusconi is on trial for living with women,” said Russian president Vladimir Putin. “If he were homosexual, nobody would dare touch him.”^[20][21]

Facebook apologized for permitting an online-dating site to run an ad featuring the photograph of a girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped then taunted on Facebook, and Coca-Cola apologized to the family of an autistic girl after her sister discovered the words YOU RETARD printed under a bottle cap.^[27][28]

Jefferson Lies lies.

Man attempts to pay water bill with Crack Cocaine, doesn’t succeed.

A single better laid about a third of the bets for Romney’s election chances on in-trade.

The Powell Memo and the “End of the American Dream”.

From The National Review: The Conservative War on Food Stamps is the most baffling political move of the year.  (go after Crop support, not the poor.)
Paul Krugman weighs in.
And on big agri-business:  the farming business actually remains with the farmers.

The strangest names in political history.  Like frogs?

So.  What’s going on in Egypt?

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