July 25, 2012: Afternoon
- Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists doing their best to hijack the Syrian revolution.
- Mexico has only one legal gun store; American gun-control policies look insane in comparison.
- When its people sparked the Arab Spring, Tunisia had the lowest firearm ownership rate in the world.
- "Nominalizations"—zombie nouns that "suck the lifeblood from adjectives and substitute abstract entities for human beings."
- Eighteen-year-old, "not exactly a party animal," asks how clubbing works.
- The flight of New York's 34th Street commuters.
- Fun to reread at lunch (because it's exceptional), "La Dolce Viva" by Barbara Goldsmith.
- Will Smith coaxed into performing Fresh Prince theme song on British talk show.
- America has consistently refused to dip its flag to Olympic hosts since 1936.
- Banksy enters the Olympics.
- Sanctions aren't punishment if the result is to push academics to the forefront of Penn State.
- Paul Ford's survey of creatures which foreshadow depression, and their literary origins.
- Utah's "goat man" identified as veteran hunter preparing for archery season.
- Selections from a series of then-and-now portraits of every citizen of Oxford, Iowa.