• Der Spiegel has a piece on Aldi supermarkets and the reclusive brothers who run them. One of the brothers, Theo Albrecht, died last week. (Aldi also owns Trader Joe’s.)
  • George Packer explains how the Senate works these days. Here’s the short version: the Senate is a joke.
  • I believed for a long time that many of the things that suck about America were mitigated by the fact that we led the world in income mobility. Turns out, we do not.
  • You can find me on Rdio.
  • New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was my hero yesterday.
  • Blizzard is going to be monitoring a certain location on a certain server in World of Warcraft due to a pattern of unsavory behavior.
  • If you haven’t seen the Kanye West/New Yorker cartoon mashup, go look right now.