Anything but water

• Need to get your essay done fast? Use EssayTyper -- a cute little service that *appears* to pull information off the web (not sure how).
  
  
• US government subsidies on crop insurance are so inefficient that it would be cheaper if the government gave away a (more limited) insurance policy.
  
  
• A defense of Satan, not just for reasons of fairness, but perhaps because he was the first to defend a human's right to know and act instead of living in blind obedience.
  
  
• True. The main-street Republican values of Burning Man? and Good. Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers
  
  
• Digging to China? Use this tool to see what's on the other side of the world from you.H/T to DL