Sunday Reading

"Governor, you have to understand there really is no fire season. The fires are gonna be all year round."
According to Saddam Hussein's Kurdish tailor: “His shoe size was 11.6, his trousers 54, and his jacket 56.”
"Why do you hate me, why do you want to shut me down?"
"'I think we peaked at 2004 to 2005,' he said. Lebanon felt stable and was drawing tourists from around the Arab world."
“Well, thank God, we still manage to serve everything we’ve cooked every morning. What else can we do?”
Tourists pay nearly $100 per person to get into Orlando's theme parks where they may be waited on by homeless parents
When Americans 55 years and old being to settle with their parents, grandma won't let her son-in-law even set foot into the house until he's employed
“I kept it in my pocket, hoping I didn’t get in the rain too much...$5,000 isn’t enough to leave work for...I’ll probably just put in savings until I figure out what I want to do with it. Buy some more cows, pay off my truck, I don’t know.”
"The feline named Khat suddenly attacked three members of the family, who all had serious wounds."
"My own observation is that Beirut was never interested in its history..a city that was always taken by modernity"
"Customer Michael Cole said he was surprised when he was charged $4,050 for one CrunchTada Pizza and two beef tacos."
"Some parents rent their infants to older street sellers. The peddlers know they'll make more money [with] a baby."
"America is better than China because there are so many places to make money."

Jacqui Shine:

Frank Pasquale:

Canadian populism: the rebirth of Fordnation.
This is why we can't have nice mugs.
r>g: NBA Owner Sterling from 2005 $500 million net worth to $1900 million today.
Watch the big internet companies further consolidate dominance.
Search engines as invisible power.
Robot Bartleby's as bank cogs.
Cowen as computer-aided Tom Friedman.
Dominating search: Google above the law.
Bonjour paresse; goodbye, benefits.
Image-ing Esperanto.
Purdy on Piketty.
Office life.
On Kunkel's climate change allegory.
Medieval plays modernized.
What percentage of think tank advocacy is purchased directly?

Jacob Remes:

Karen Gregory: