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Reasons to feel not-so-bad

Fredrick E. Vars (Alabama): Rethinking the Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders. Bridges and the bottom line: Adam J. White on why infrastructure must always be a matter of politics. The end of the consumer society: Do people want less stuff and are thus willing to work less? A look at 5 crazy street performers (who happened to be geniuses). Ezra Klein interviews Larry Summers: "I think Keynes mistitled his book". Fortunately, there are a few reasons to feel not-so-bad about the existence of cigarettes. Don't be the worst: How to approach a girl on the Internet. Breivik and his enablers: Anti-immigrant Islamophobia is an ideology rampant on both sides of the Atlantic. Stop blaming Wall Street: It isn't the reason our economy is in shambles. From Obit, a review of Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age by Susan Jacoby; there's nothing "valiant" or "courageous" about dying from a terrible disease; and from Defending Your Life to Meet Joe Black, the death you see on screen will not be the death you have. Why does a mass strike matter? Kevin Best looks at why socialists argue for mass strikes. EPA bashers aren’t protecting "jobs", they’re protecting polluters. How old school is old school? Minority Rules: Scientists discover the tipping point for the spread of ideas. Lube job: Should Google associate Rick Santorum's name with anal sex? Why having more options makes us more critical of ourselves and more politically passive. Was there a foreign government behind the 9/11 attacks? An excerpt from The Eleventh Day: The Full Story of 9/11 and Osama bin Laden by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. Can’t go back to Constantinople: Istanbul’s history deserves preservation, but at what cost to development? Yes, some conservatives actually think we’d be better off without a debt ceiling deal.