The Daily Parker

Too many things to read before lunchtime:

• Chicago's NPR affiliate, WBEZ, has a new mobile app.
• There's a new mobile device that functions like a Babel fish.
• Republicans really don't care about your unborn baby.
• Serbian authorities colluded with a Dubai-based property developer to illegally destroy an entire neighborhood overnight.
• A snarky Republican writing for Bloomberg actually makes a good point about why the TSA may be taking much longer to screen you than before.
• It looks like your brain naturally explores associations, not just when you have enough to eat. (DT is going to yell at me for bad science reporting, I'm sure.)
• Sinéad O'Connor is safe, and is speaking out about how people treat mental illness.
• Is the upcoming Clinton-Trump battle like the 1990 Richards-Williams match-up? One can hope.
• Meanwhile, it's not just Sanders supporters who have drifted away from the reality-based community; Sanders himself is the problem.

Now, back to work.

I may or may not have a letterspacing error in the headline...

Short list today, so I may do it after work before rehearsal:

• Krugman takes Sanders to task for his single-payer proposal—not the idea of single-payer, but the plausibility of it in the current environment.
• Speed reading doesn't really work, according to a team of psychologists.
• "Ted Cruz Isn't Crazy—He's Much Worse."
• When does self-disclosure become over-sharing? It's not obvious.

Not to mention, I still haven't finished the Economist's special Christmas issue. Maybe I need a long flight or two?

The good: A new study shows that drinking 3-5 cups of coffee a day has measurable health benefits.

The bad: A black resident of Santa Monica, Calif., got hauled out of her apartment at gunpoint by 19 police officers after a white neighbor reported someone trying to break in.

The ugly: Yale law student Omar Aziz writes about the soul of a Jihadist.

And the neutral, which could be ugly: forecasters predict 15-30 cm of snow in Chicago tomorrow night into Saturday morning.