Webb Ellis Linky

Rugby World Cup was last weekend I know, but I liked this: top five heartwarming moments from the rugby world cup. I’ve never followed rugby that closely but it seems to me this sheer niceness in the sport these days is a new trend – not something I remember from decades past. Am I wrong?

Matt Taibbi: the case for Bernie Sanders, or how mainstream US media’s cynical obsession with the horserace is letting everyone down.

The Comics Journal (coincidentally the first place I ever heard about her, way back in the 00s) has a mammoth interview with Kate Beaton (who is soon to be a guest at the NZ Festival Writer’s Week!)

Every conversation between parent and child, in four conversations

And finally, via Campbell, Choose Your Own Adventure meets the paradox of free will