PJ O'Rourke | WSJ | 13 April 2012 Farming sounds fun until you try it. "Raccoons eat the corn, squash and tomatoes. Freezing rain take cares of everything else." But all is not lost. "I've formed an inviolate bond with the land. The bank calls it a mortgage" Comments Jason Zengerle | New York | 15 April 2012 Candid and caustic Massachusetts congressman discusses 30 years in Washington. Interesting throughout. On Republicans today: "Half of them are Michele Bachmann. The other half are afraid of losing a primary to Michele Bachmann" Comments Vanessa Grigoriadis | New York | 15 April 2012 "John Friend was the charismatic leader of a feel-good, all-American yoga empire, 600,000 strong and counting. Then his disciples discovered that their guru smoked pot, had sex with his students, and ran a Wiccan coven." Oops Comments Mark Dery | BoingBoing | 12 April 2012 Cancer survivor's meditation on pain. "I’m feeling nigh unto death, driven half-mad by a nasogastric tube running up my nose and down my throat, pumping a bilious green froth of stomach acid and half-digested goop out of my belly" Comments David Frum | Newsweek | 15 April 2012 Robert Caro has reached volume four of his great biography of Lyndon Johnson, and the moment when government suddenly shifted. JFK was gone and it was up to his ungainly, unethical successor to turn rhetoric into legal reality Comments Jonah Lehrer | Grantland | 11 April 2012 Kobe Bryant is well past the age when NBA performance usually nosedives. How does he do it? One of the keys may be a new therapy he's had, in which his own tissues were extracted, manipulated, and then reintroduced to his body Comments | 
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