Department of Weekend Reading: October 3, 2014

The CIA Starbucks, just like all the others, except no names on cups.
The great bourbon barrel-aged beers of Chicago.
When is it good for a city to be boring?
The point at which street art becomes racistgraffiti, or not.
How technology of almost any kind helps make us just a little bit stupider.
Mittens, still buying houses.
Each prisoner at Guantanamo costs about $3 million per year (versus $78,000 a year in U.S. Supermax prison).
Bill O’Reilly’s global mercenary army; what could go wrong?
The many...