Spreadin’ Love 543

We're in that canyon of time between the end of school and the beginning of camp. The kids are joyous. Ian was too giddy to fall asleep last night. I'm pretty happy to have them around, too, but it does cut into my compulsive online reading time. 

With Cartoon Network on in the living room, it's time to catch up:

Horrific story about the forced sterilization of the poor in North Carolina.

Why don't women in Africa breast-feed

An artist's statement

Gee, I want to go to a shrimp boil at Alice Water's house

5:27 for the Big Man