Friday Odds & Sods Working All Day, Every Day

Another week brings the arrival of summer and with it the near midway point of another year.  I hope that the arrival of another season finds you well, Dear Reader, and that you are reading this in a beach chair or at least a comfortable hammock.  I, unfortunately, have been forced to spend this week in the drudgery that, alas! all too often makes up the majority of one's waking life.  But never fear! Friday Odds & Sods is here to provide a brief moment of living wakefulness as we move on into July

• As the poet said, he who speaks another language gains another soul. Of course, even the most fluent speaker must sometimes acknowledge that there are certain gaps of nuance that prevent complete mastery.  How then, a student might ask, are we to cope?
• A graphic that succinctly shows how Wikipedia is the most awful (in the original sense of the term) website ever.
• Finally two articles about the intersection between public memory, politics, good taste, and morality: The coming battle over Confederate monuments, and one man's obsessive collection of Hitler memorabilia.