Epic Fail

How our free-enterprise medical system makes it harder to notice if a patient has Ebola.

Thanx to Jon Carroll

Cross-cultural

Professor Borges, an excellent book made of Jorge Luis Borges's lectures on English Literature, has the words Avalon and Fabian on facing pages.

(Note for younger readers: [Frankie] Avalon and Fabian were the 50s forerunners of the boy bands: cute guys who could almost sing.)

"I expect you to act like a group of friends who care about each other"

Empathy: One hope for not letting the terrorists win on the Internet.

Thanx to andrewducker

Public menace

Texas hospital throws woman out of waiting room for breastfeeding.