By Ezra
• Laura makes some unsettling points setting Saddam Hussein's supposedly "botched" hanging against the norms and glitches routinely accepted as part of our executions.
• If more frat houses read this web page, the condom industry would fall apart. It's worth saying, too, that when you think about the prices listed on this web page, you're talking $1 or more for every safe sexual encounter. That gets pricey. And it's hard to believe it's not a contributor to disease and pregnancy rates in low income communities. (Via Tyler the Cowen)
• We have a new weekend poster: Ankush Khardori, from Penguins on the Equator. I've been a fan of Ankush's media criticism ever since I noticed him viciously snarking at some my pretensions a few months back. He'll be great.
