¶ Matins: Fault lines deepen in America as the “Tenther” movement gains traction. Joe Jervis reports on gun-law nullification in South Dakota, while the Times considers the reactionary movement more generally.

¶ Lauds: New York’s City Center, built as a Shrine in the Twenties and repurposed in the Forties, is about to be freshened up by Polshek Partnership. (NYT)

¶ Prime: At the Columbia Journalism Review, Ryan Chittum notes (somewhat testily) that the new Lehman Brothers scandal — the firm was cooking its books while the regulators looked, or could have looked, over its shoulders — has received more comprehensive (and ongoing) coverage in the leading market blogs than in the mainstream prints.

¶ Tierce: At PsyBlog, a review of eight studies of cognitive fluency. A tricky piece.

¶ Sext: A French monoblog devoted to crunches at the Étoile: 2m40 is the height limit for the tunnel that runs beneath the traffic circle. (via MetaFilter)

¶ Nones: In a truly stinky-cheese move, Montenegro has granted (sold?) citizenship to Thai troublemaker Thaksin Shinawatra. Now everybody’s happy? (BBC News)

¶ Vespers: Far from being a recluse, J D Salinger appears to have been a man who, having written what he had to write, simply retired to normal life. Normal for 1950, that is, not for now. (Speakeasy)

¶ Compline: Jeffrey Toobin on John Paul Stevens, in The New Yorker.

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