Assorted links

1. Shortages of official swordsmen executioners in Saudi Arabia.

2. Unlikely video games, including “Austrian Truck Simulator.”

3. Good signs (photo).

4. Speculative hypotheses about the ACA exchanges.

5. The highly reasonable Kevin Drum, on the evils of voice mail.

6. Age, not politics, predicts envy.

7. Florida and Arkansas fight the Medicaid Wars.