THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

Who will be washed away by the preference cascade?

Pathological altruism?

How the Journalism Sausage gets made.

The sad fate of Amazon Tote.

Caitlin Flanagan trips over a shark.

At the Northwestern Law Review, an online symposium on the Tea Party and popular constitutionalism.

A simple weight-loss plan that worked.

China’s Train Wreck.

They told me if I voted for John McCain, the FCC would be cracking down on broadcast indecency — and they were right!

Burn a Koran, rake in the cash?

Val Kilmer’s best role ever.

When academic politics turn lethal.

Good question: Where is your Syrian Humanitarian Flotilla Erdogan?