Random links
- Bring Back Flophouses, Rooming Houses, and Microapartments
- "Dumb urban policies wiped out the best kinds of housing for the poor, young, and single. But they’re finally making a comeback in smart cities."
- Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II
- "Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs."
- Would an American Jury Even Convict Edward Snowden?
- The article notes predictions of jury nullification on the part of some. I'm a bit skeptical of it for a few reasons - though more Americans seems to side with Snowden than against juries may may be uninformed of this or the judge may remove jurors so inclined. Given the US love for secret courts of late you also have to wonder if he'd actually wind up seeing a jury, though perhaps I'm getting too cynical.
- Why a white South African risked traditional circumcision
- Imagine flipping the genders around in this story and guess how positively it would have been portrayed. As far as South African stats are concerned "Almost 50 boys died in Mpumalanga and Limpopo in May from botched circumcisions while 30 died in the Eastern Cape province"