Joshua Foer | New Yorker | 17 December 2012 John Quijada, a 54-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, invented a language, "Ithkuil". It's a monument to ingenuity and design. And then Ukrainian militants started showing an interest Comments Anonymous | Anarchist Soccer Mom | 14 December 2012 Not literally. A powerful post on living with an unstable child. Interesting if true. "I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me. A few weeks ago, Michael pulled a knife and threatened to kill me" Comments Tim Parks | NYRB | 14 December 2012 Interesting thoughts on language from Parks, who was commissioned to write a book about Italy for the American market and found many of his words changed in the editing process. Why do American publishers insist on this? Comments Russell Brandom | Verge | 14 December 2012 The great American question: Whom do you sue? If accident victims are incentivised to sue developers and manufacturers of driverless cars, companies won't make the cars. If liability rests with owners of cars, people won't buy them Comments Mark Murrmann | Mother Jones | 14 December 2012 Just what the headline says. Every picture worth a thousand words, most of them unprintable. Note in particular Mattel's advertisement for a toy M-16 rifle: "You can cut loose with a solid blast almost a whole minute long!" Comments Sally Jenkins | Washington Post | 15 December 2012 Doping biker's co-author doesn't exonerate him, exactly, but relativises his conduct, and says others must share the blame: "I enjoyed and profited from my association with Lance when he was on top, and so did his fellow riders" Comments | 
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