Jordan's blog  Robin Williams found dead in his Marin county
home  Robin Williams, the Oscar-winning actor and comedian whose
performances careened from dazzling pop-culture riffs to intense
dramatic roles, died Monday at the age of 63, in an apparent
suicide that marked the grim end of his recent battles with
severe depression.  If Being Stupid is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be
Right: A Study on the Persistence of Dumb Ideas  Brendan Nyhan,
Asst. Professor of Government at Duke and creator of Spinsanity,
one of the internet's original fact-checking outfits, last month
released a study about a systematic attempt to correct false
beliefs about the connection between vaccination and autism.
This Open Thread is way better than all those other ones
Really, it's no contest. The other threads never had a chance.
Giraffe Execution Open Thread  I saw this story about Marius the
Giraffe over at TPM, and while it's easy to understand that the
zoo felt the animal needed to be put down, and it's also easy to
understand