Friday links! That settles that edition

The windshield of a care in which an unarmed black man and woman were killed by Cleveland police in 2013. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk

The car in which two unarmed people were killed by Cleveland police in 2013. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk

Sometimes it seems like a controversy is going to go on forever. For the rest of time, pillars of the business community will demand that schoolteachers carry guns for safety, and Their Eyes Were Watching God will remain an important book even though it sucks. But great controversies settle. Temperance is over. Nobody has been called upon to recant his model of a heliocentric system lately, and gay marriage might become boring within our lifetimes. Maybe the insoluble problems of our age are the settled facts of history. Today is Friday, another cut in the thousand by which disagreement lives for a while and dies. Won’t you answer the big questions with me?

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