¶ Matins: David Brooks’s Op-Ed piece on Haiti ignites a blowtorch of fury from Matt Taibbi. (True Slant; via 3 Quarks Daily)

¶ Lauds: Vampire Weekend, a band that, like Talking Heads thirty years ago, emerged from an institution of higher learning wearing very neat clothing, gets an intriguing review in the Times.

¶ Prime: Used equipment! Bob Cringely wonders why anybody does business with IBM, which increasingly operates like a bad auto dealership.

¶ Tierce: Jonah Lehrer explains why “Charity Is Social.” We think that there’s an explanation of the power of organized crime lurking in the vicinity of this study, but since we don’t know what we’re talking about, we’ll keep it to ourselves. (The Frontal Cortex)

¶ Sext: Just what we need: the SarcMarc. (via The Morning News)

¶ Nones: Honor among thieves: Somali pirates squabble over dividing $5.5 million ransom. (NYT)

¶ Vespers: Peter Coates makes a case for James Branch Cabell (rhymes with “rabble”), at The Second Pass. A Southern Edith Wharton, maybe?

¶ Compline: Tyler Cowen on Barack Obama: “The Haiti President.” (Marginal Revolution)

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