¶ Matins: There’s money in them thar drugs: economist Jeffrey Miron calculates the likely tax revenues that would be collectable if cocaine and marijuana were legalized. (NPR; via The Morning News)

¶ Lauds: Nige discovers the Southgate station of the Piccadilly Line, one of several designed by Charles Holden. (Nigeness)

¶ Prime: Felix Salmon suggests tolling the Cross Bronx Expressway.

¶ Tierce: Tyler Cowen likes his iPad, but “most of all it feels too valuable to take very far from the house.”

¶ Sext: They say that youth is wasted on the young, and the contributors to The Bygone Bureau show exactly how and in what ways this is true. Tim Lehman, for example, was sufficiently hooked by Magic: The Gathering to dream of winning a tournament.

¶ Nones: Jeffrey Gettleman writes about the collapse of sovereignty in post-Cold War Africa. (Foreign Policy; via RealClearWorld)

¶ Vespers: Translator Marian Schwartz notes that contemporary readers are more accepting of “foreignness.” (Globe; via 3 Quarks Daily)

¶ Compline: Thomas Byrne Edsall writes about the growing “Obama Coalition,” in The Atlantic.

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