Light week:
Glenn Greenwald asks how many Americans are targeted for assassination by the US government.
Before Rolling Stone aired McChrystal's blathering about the clusterfuck in Afghanistan, Tariq Ali quietly gave an insightful primer on the war from a lefty perspective.
This Atlantic Food article on cocktail history makes me want to have a drink while reading about drinking. I always did think "gin rickey" was a funny name for a drink.
I'm tempted to skim this book on nail salons.
A.O. Scott pulls no punches in his review of Knight and Day.
And there's a nice video & article on the Rikers Island NYPL "branch."
