Sunday assorted links

1. How bad are things?  Arguably this post needs a broader sense of what makes a life valuable, still one of the more interesting blog posts of the last year.

2. Rubber’s reach.

3. “Local vicars have also supported plans for a bar at the crematorium, which opened in 1992 and is set in 23 acres of open countryside.”

4. Used bookstores are making a big comeback.

5. In Austin, Gary Leff and I enjoyed Papalote Taco House, thanks for your earlier suggestions.  Pipian was best.

6. Affluent white people are the most likely to refuse vaccination for their children.