-Getting a little snobby around here-Via Kottke: ‘Worst Of The McMansions‘

-Graffiti, the law, development and Detroit.

-Edward Feser reviews a new biography on that arch-empiricist, David Hume (subscription required).

–The Sunni/Shia divide is not one well-bridged by deliverable nukes.

-From a reader -Denis Dutton below:

Hmmmm….