• Why Is Charles Murray Odious? (Current Affairs) A cross burning apologist for racism odious?  Surely you jest.
• Party Unity is for Rubes (Current Affairs) Makes the obvious point that party unity only applies to the liberal wing of a party. Just look at how Barack Obama stood up Tom Perez for DNC chair for no other reason than as a f%$# you to progressives.
• Federal government officially apologizes to Omar Khadr (Globe and Mail) The apology is now official.  When does Stephen Harper go to jail?
• What I Learned About Interruption from Talk Radio (The Last Word On Nothing) A woman who has techniques for men who interrupt women, but it works more generally.
• One of the Nation’s Only Judges to Rule Against Right to Record Police Just Got Overturned (ACLU) Good.
• How economics became a religion (The Guardian) To call macroeconomics faith based science gives it too much credit.
• Geospatial analysis of nonmedical vaccine exemptions and pertussis outbreaks in the United States (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) Vaccinate your kid now.
• Wolf Richter: Cryptocurrencies Collapsed (naked capitalism) Bitcoin and its ilk have some social flaws at its core, which reduces them to little more than speculative instruments and a way to launder money.

I have always wanted horns on my helmet, but I’ve wanted to have squeeze bulb type horns.

In any case, this note shows that the Norse were far more sophisticated than the generally thought.