Maggie's Farm

Will Dunkin Donuts go upscale? Let's hope not. We like them just the way they are: predictably downscale with coffee that tastes very good, with enough sugar and milk. Story in Slate.

St. Francis created the first creche in Grecio, according to Curt Jester, to keep lawyers busy in the future. Never realized that he was the Patron Saint of ACLU attorneys.

Is the paperless office finally happening? CSM

A cool gift to our readers: How to actually reach a human being at a number of major companies. The IVR Cheat Sheet by Paul English.

Georgetown and Harvard accept 20 million dollar bribes from Saudi. "For understanding." I think we already understand enough.  NYT . For me, the real question is "Do the moslems understand us yet?"