And a blogwatch unemployed

Is nobody’s fool…

Alias Clio: Drinkin’ styles, by country. (Drinkin’ in bars, anyway.) Americans, in this as in so much else, are more like Russians than like Canadians.

Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Amazing, creepy, surreal illustrations for Goethe’s Faust. Seriously, these are fantastic. Via Journalista.

Hit & Run: “…But as Maia notes, even people who claim to champion a disease model seem ambivalent about it: Can you think of any other disease for which the most widely accepted treatment involves asking the patient to surrender himself to a ‘higher power’ and make amends for the wrongs he’s done as a result of his illness? …As with anyone in trouble, the moral evaluation hinges on the specifics of the individual’s situation, including disadvantages that are beyond his control and the extent to which he has hurt other people. Drug addiction should be seen as part of the continuum of human behavior, not as a special case in which all-powerful chemicals take control of people and dictate their actions.“

Shaenon Garrity: Edward Gorey does “The Trouble with Tribbles.” If you know the meaning of that sentence, YOU MUST CLICK HERE NOW. This immense awesomeness brought to you by Journalista.