Brand New Products by Linh Dinh : The Poetry Foundation “A super realistic photo of what’s outside Your window, pasted to your window.”

Why I Love Mormonism “Yet unlike Islam, for whom Muhammad is the last prophet, Mormonism allows for continuing revelation. In a way, it is very democratic, very American.”

On waivers Jon Weisman, Dodger Thoughts

We Are All Welfare Queens Now – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic “More to the point, as tactics aimed at suppressing black citizenship become more abstract, they also have the side-effect of enveloping non-blacks.”

Christianity, Liberalism, and Love of the Other, Part I « The Orthosphere “If I value a person only for some quality he possesses, like intelligence or beauty, so that I would forget him if he lost those qualities or if I met someone smarter and more beautiful, this would be esteem, not love. If I […]

baconmeteor This is why we can’t have frequent Idle Words posts: http://t.co/sLtJIiE0

Interview with Simon Kuper “Real Madrid—world’s richest soccer club—would be only the 135th biggest company in Finland measured by revenues.”

Journal of a Programmer: The unfriendliness of software “One way is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ deficiencies.”

A teachable moment for the United States on its role in the Middle East | Daniel W. Drezner

Why It’s Never Mattered That America’s Schools ‘Lag’ Behind Other Countries | TechCrunch “While it’s difficult to speculate why the U.S. persists as a titan of innovation, we need not be scared into trying to be like other countries. America has been at the top in spite of a lack-luster education system.”