Last Few Drops of Milk

I hope.

• From lionization to not-even-a-bag-of-chips, the arc of Mr. Petraeus' reputation, by Mikey Weinstein at AlterNet.  
• David Simon (also at AlterNet) decries the American journalists' preoccupation with sex.  (Also, he independently seems to have discovered what I think of as the Michael Jackson rule:  Unless you're going to have sex in real life with someone famous, that person's orientation and sex life are only points of information, not exciting gossip.)