The Times op-ed page letters today are struggling with how vaccines do or do not cause autism (which they don’t).

To Ohio, where a man summoned the constabulary on a complaint that “his live-in-girlfriend hit him with a ham sandwich inside their home in the 2600 block of Royalton Road around 7:10 p.m.” Unfortunately, “the man was unable to provide deputies with a full…

Some things about Egypt that you may not have read about until now: “From 2004 to 2008 alone, about 1.7 million workers have engaged in 1,900 strikes and other forms of protest, demanding everything from wage increases to job security in state-owned industries that…

“Closing libraries is child abuse.”
 — Author Alan Bennett is strongly against plans to shut a library near his home in North Yorkshire. [Via]

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These Things Happened

• Spoiler alert: This “Lives” column is composed entirely of the last lines of New York Times Magazines “Lives” columns…

Relax, everybody, all it means is that the famous golfer shot a “three-under-par 69 in the Farmers Insurance Open first round Thursday,” okay? Which he probably celebrated by banging a couple of cocktail waitresses.

How to derail a conversation on the Internet: “Excuse me, but I can’t believe you’re not talking about rape in the DRC. Why on earth aren’t you talking about that in a blogpost entitled ‘Kittens and Bunnies’?”

Remember when everyone made fun of Whoopi Goldberg for trying to distinguish “rape” from “rape-rape”? Well now House Republicans want to get in on the action.

I just… wow. “A convicted killer who escaped from an Arizona prison said after his capture that he had planned to overdose on heroin at Yellowstone National Park and let bears eat him to end the fear and panic he was experiencing while on the lam.”

Despite tens of thousands of protestors, police with teargas and a total shutdown of the Internet by the government, Rahm Emanuel will ultimately end up on the Chicago mayoral ballot.