politics NYT Opinion columnist David Brooks issues a mea culpa after spending $50 on a glass of whiskey while decrying the "terrible economy" Jennifer Sandlin

David Brooks Smoke House Barbeque dunks on Brook's $78 hamburger claim: "Looks like someone was knocking back some serious drinks" Mark Frauenfelder

twitter NY Times' David Brooks, forgetting how much he drank, complains of $80 burger Mark Frauenfelder

new york times Is your life-saving inhaler killing the planet? NYT thinks so Mark Frauenfelder

politics Meet the Texan billionaires buying up the state's political machinery Elías Villoro

law A 15-year-old girl killed a 37-year-old man who raped her. Now she must pay $150,000 to the family of her "victim" Rob Beschizza

music The MC5 are back to kick out more jams, motherf**er. David Pescovitz

comedy "The Super Bob Einstein Movie," now playing on HBO Gareth Branwyn

qanon Here are the 17 Republicans who refused to condemn QAnon in a House vote Mark Frauenfelder

censorship Glenn Greenwald was cancelled from the Harper's Letter warning about "cancel culture" Thom Dunn

tabloids The multiverse, universal wave function and quantum mechanics in this week's tawdry tabloids Peter Sheridan

google Deep look at the Googler Uprising, drawing on insider interviews Cory Doctorow

health One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000% Cory Doctorow

deaths Deaths: Actor Bob Einstein, 'Super Dave Osborne' and Marty Funkhouser on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Xeni Jardin

corruption Cheap dates: here's how much it cost the telcoms sector to buy Congress and murder Net Neutrality Cory Doctorow

Business Disney buys Fox in all-stock deal, making Rupert Murdoch the largest shareholder in the company Cory Doctorow

books Ranking authors by their adverb use Cory Doctorow

trump NYT: Trump is "psychologically off the chain" Rob Beschizza

security On whistleblowers and secrecy: What author Barry Eisler said to a room of ex-intelligence officers Barry Eisler

police brutality Out-of-control Texas cop pulls gun on children Rob Beschizza