Weekend Reading • Assorted Links

The French island of Reunion, east of Madagascar, looks just gorgeous (see photos). And yet, they're rioting.

The cost of living in Barrow, Alaska, in pictures, via a visit to the grocery store. Frightening. Check out, for example, the hundred dollar leg of lamb.

In the early days of the internet I saw an ad offering to sell passports for $15,000 (Not that I was in the market for a Mozambican passport). Here's a report titled Passports ... for a price. And it's legitimate.

As a rule, Finns...