Weekly roundup: December 19-25

Articles

Time to rein in the process police from  The Globe and Mail

Be careful before urging changes to capital-gains tax [Kevin Milligan original] & The case for taxing capital gains [Erin Weir’s response] from The Globe and Mail

Zurich, the world’s best transit city from Planetizen

The Canadian winter, in all its glory from Ottawa Citizen

Eating animals from The Atlantic

Margaret Thatcher deserves every honour – apart from a state funeral from The Telegraph blogs

Even convicts deserve better from National Post

All talk, no action on the environment from Toronto Star

This is how Nikita Khrushchev would have sold hot dogs from National Post

Tweets

Just got an e-mail from Classmates.com, whose business model seems to be hoping I've never heard of Facebook.

— Colin Wyers (@cwyers) December 20, 2011

Screenshot from Twitter. 2011-12-20T16:57:20.000Z. Sun Readers (@CrazySunReaders). "I'm going to eat locally grown bananas only from now on!!! Screw Chiquita!".

https://twitter.com/mikepmoffatt/status/149235930539106304

Our new sunscreen is "59% Organic." Presumably, the remaining 41% is free of bullshit like hydrogen and carbon.

— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) December 23, 2011

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