Weekend Links - 2

* Against Jared Diamond.

* Stories from Newtown: Victoria Soto. Dawn Hochsprung.

* Tactical Reality: the new gun culture.

* From the reclaimuc archives: The police state in Europe vs. the police state in the US.

* The argument makes no sense at all, but people who use those lines aren’t making arguments. They are invoking the magic spell that licenses them to be able to kill.

* A Modest Proposal for the Reform of Academe.

* Democratic Senator Compares Private Student Loans To Dickens-Era Of Debt Prisons.

* Report: Humanity Has Overshot The Earth’s Biocapacity.

* And the average age at which people reach the lowest point of happiness in their lives in various countries. I feel pretty certain mine is and will always be 31, but then I’ve always been an outlier.