Good news for Homer Simpson and Rand Paul

Your donuts are safe!

Conventional weapons

Richard Cohen writes so badly that we can't be sure if he was being deliberately racist in his column about Mayor-Elect Di Blasio. But I'm with Ta-Nehisi Coates: He's run out of chances.

Explosive dieresis

Lingua Franca (not, alas, the magazine of blessed memory) cruelly mocks the cute use of diacritical marks. One they missed: A local car-dealership chain called Pepe uses a symbol I cannot reproduce because it exists in no earthly language: an acute accent over the second P.

Quiz

bart_calendar has a gender equality quiz for men. (Uses language)