Monday Links

Buying three airplane seats that can be folded into a bed, for one, two, or three people. 

Work is essential to happiness I didn't learn the dignity of work itself from high theory.  I learned it from having a low-status job.  I recall a retreat speaker once mentioning ways one could discern whether a call was from God or not. "It is usually a call downward in the eyes of the world." In my case that was necessary.

Chilean Sea Bass - It was an inspired renaming to make a fish more popular. But don't be fooled into thinking it's all PR. It does actually have to be worth eating or people will only have it once.

Immigrant assimilation proceeded more quickly in the  Deep South and West  We think first of the urban immigrants in the melting pot, but they didn't melt as quickly. They could maintain networks, neighborhoods, institutions, and languages. When there are fewer Germans around, you are less likely to marry another German.