Thursday link dump: Thrilling monkey escape

• Why does the New York Times print so many bogus trend stories? No one knows.
• The NSA screws everything up with needless secrecy and terrible branding.
• "Monkeys use trees to catapault themselves out of Japanese laboratory."
• The New York Times is way more comfortable attributing political differences to "culture" than to class issues.
• So, have you seen this Mike Weinstein video yet?

By Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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