Selected reading

Y’all have my apologies if there aren’t too many words typed over the next few days. I’ll hopefully get some more time over the weekend.

• If you only click one of the links on this list, make it Aida Edemariam’s piece on Sean Hodgson, a man who served 27 years in prison before his conviction was quashed.
• Also click-worthy is Al Giordano’s piece on the spread of swine flu, and the suspicion that bad (ie cheap) farming practices might’ve been to blame.
• Mark Easton asks whether it’s time to abolish compulsory retirement.
• Joshua Foust writes about the response to the Taliban among ordinary Pakistanis.
• Nicholas Schmindle knows how to save Pakistan.
• Joshua Keating describes how the Obama administration is trying to work around Congressional restrictions on how it deals with Hamas.
• We’re apparently halfway to causing the really, really bad type of climate change.
• James Hrynyshyn asks whether we’re seeing the beginning of the end for coal.
• Geoffrey S. Corn is sceptical about whether the authors of the torture memos could have a successful prosecution brought against them.
• And one day we’ll all live in a Camera Obscura video: