Saturday Odds & Sods Will Never Let You Down, Baby

I hope, dear reader, you will forgive me for a late update to your weekly roundup of all the content fit to aggregate, or what a more naive age would have called steal.  It is a gloomy Saturday afternoon in the Metropolis, but a quiet and calm one, and for that I am grateful. Indeed, as some wise philosopher observed, the first sign of aging is the desire no longer to carouse on a Saturday but instead to see to domestic comforts.  Be that as it may, dear reader, I hope your weekend has gone well and will continue to go well, and will be at least marginally improved by this week's Odds & Sods.

• Two items on the misuse and abuse of the truth for political ends: The cinema under the Nazis and the mental gymnastics of climate change deniers. 
• On the lighter side of politics, a history of how Taft attempted to unseat Teddy's Bear as the nation's stuffed animal of choice.   
• The ability to choose when to die through doctor-assisted suicide is one of those topics that everyone has an opinion on and yet has probably not done much thinking about. This article, on the unforeseen consequences of legalized physician-assisted suicide in Belgium, thus serves as a useful corrective.