• UAW: ‘Consensus’ reached with Volkswagen on union (Washington Post) This is hearty F%$#-You from VW to the politicians who scare-mongered the union election in Tennessee.
• Several Species of Small Privileged Onanists Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Couric (d r i f t g l a s s) A take-down of David Brooks worthy of Matt Taibbi.  Today’s must read.
• NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance (Bruce Schneier) Not surprised:  The NSA says that trying to protect your privacy is justification to invade your privacy
• Scarborough: Christie Is ‘Chicken’ For Refusing To Meet Sandy Hook Families (TPM) et tu Joseph?
• BBC staff told to stop inviting cranks on to science programmes (Telegraph) The cranks in question are anthropogenic climate change deniers, but “Opinion on the shape of the earth differ” journalism continues in the good old US of A.
• How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play  (The Atlantic) One of the ways that Finland’s education system works is more frequent breaks, particularly at the lower grades.
• The British Foreign Office claims to have “lost” documents on rendition for torture (Daily Mail)  Yeah, “inadvertent water damage”.  I believe that.
• The Department of Justice declines to investigate the CIA’s spying on the US Senate (McClatchy, DC) Nope, no official coverup here.

Here is John Oliver on how the Hobby Lobby crowd export homophobia while it becomes unacceptable locally. (Kinda long)