12 April 2010: Afternoon

While others talk nukes, Obama and Jintao will discuss currency--though probably not currency manipulation.

Lucid summary of events in Kyrgyzstan.

Op: Reliance on authoritarian regimes is both miserable ethics and poor strategy.

Dawkins and Hitchens seek to arrest the Pope in September.

Hitchens: Ratzinger will be remembered for only one thing long after he is dead.

Poland's president Kaczynski: "gutsy, rather shy, awkward, suspicious, pernickety, and scrupulous."

Pyongyang's newspaper cites anonymous French expert to explain why Kim Jong-Il's style is "spreading expeditiously worldwide."

William Gibson on George Bush's raincoats: American-made, with fire-hose British cotton.

Simply touching an object and spending time with it greatly increases the likelihood that a typical consumer will buy a product.

Palm for sale.

Wagner College announces male-studies foundation to celebrate dudes' triumphs outside feminism's ire.

Op: Since January, Virginia has been driven hell-bent back into the bad old days.

James Cameron visits the Amazon, receives gifts, vows "to do something" for Brazil's tribes.

Ebert's remembrance of when the Sex Pistols called, wanting to make a movie.