Via the Boston Globe’s Odds and Ends RSS Feed: Lederhosen subsidies axed as government tightens belt. Ba-dum-pssch.

Other Boston Globe RSS feeds here (local news especially fun). Thanks to Dave for the pointer.

Salon: Abridged Too Far. Hilary Flower writes of her unsettling discovery of “abridged” children’s literature through reading the “Great Illustrated Classics” version of Wind in the Willows. Whenever a classic work of children’s literature credits an “adapter” and an editor, look out.