friday reads

Rocketing global food prices are causing acute problems of hunger and malnutrition in poor countries and have put back the fight against poverty by seven years, the World Bank said yesterday.


Juan Cole on a military dictatorship achieved not by coup but by moral laziness.


Black Ops on Green Groups


Check out the Eldorado Roundup at Grits for Breakfast.


The Austin City Council yesterday approved the naming of the highest point of the new park near Lady Bird Lake. Doug Sahm Hill