A Random Assortment

~ A young restaurant owner with Down Syndrome.

~ This is a difficult article about past and ongoing rapes and sexual abuse in a Bolivian Mennonite community.

~ RIP, JBE. Miss Self-Important points us to an excellent essay of Elshtain's on thrift:

None of these environmentalisms - although some of the tasks called for, like recycling, mimed what the thrifty had done a generation or two earlier - relied on the virtue of thrift, however. 

~ "Taken"--the abuse of civil forfeiture.

~ I sort of like this, but don't think it will go with our living room. What do you think, Francisco?