Happy birthday to Roxy Music lead guitarist Phil Manzanera, born January 31, 1951.

The Rectification of Names finds The New York Times' David Leonhardt at his most obnoxiously bothsideserish.

Lawyers, Guns & Money questions whether Nick Kristof is really as oppressed as Black people in 1860.

Batocchio notes the timing of a Tennessee school district banning "Maus" just in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Attention space nerds! When galaxies collide...

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