The Skim

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal invests $300 million in Twitter, though at the time of this announcement "it wasn't clear how much of Twitter the prince will control."
"There is no reason to believe that these abrogations of popular sovereignty cannot be sustained for a very long time with the tactical application of force." Africa? Latin America? No, Western Europe and the U.S..
When will the "meme" meme die?
There is nothing wrong with higher education in Greece that a little less democracy couldn't solve, according to an international committee that included the chancellors of University of California-Davis and New York University.
When did "health and safety" become a euphemism for "shock and awe"?