Wednesday Exposition

In the sorting office – LRB. A really interesting article on the paradoxes of postal service in the e-mail age. Seriously.

Pat Robertson Thinks The Left Wants to Kill Babies to Turn Straight Women into Lesbians – Balloon Juice. On his deathbed, I fully expect Pat Robertson to reveal that he was secretly a performance artist the whole time.

Where does value lie in a restaurant meal? – Felix Salmon. Some interesting thoughts on what we're actually paying for when we got to a restaurant, especially a pricier one.

Andrew Marr superinjunction challenge cost 'tens of thousands', says Ian Hislop – Guardian. For my North American friends, a superinjunction is a ridiculous legal judgement that can stop people from even mentioning something – in this case Marr's private transgressions. With Marr it's just a little silly, but these injunctions have been used to cover up serious wrongdoing like in the Trafigura case, which suppressed a draft confidential report about a toxic waste spill in west Africa.

Top Ten Arab Spring Advances this Week – Juan Cole. Despite the violence in Syria and Libya, there are still reforms happening in the Middle East.

From Kung Fu Monkey we have Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma: