* not comics: I don't have anything to say about the Rolling Stone heave and collapse on that UVA story other than in not firing everyone they kind of nail a specific problem -- there's no one accountable on the journalism side of things for making sure that something meets bare minimums. That would be a hard place for which to work.
* Bart Beaty writes about his recent experience making a book about 1960s Archies for The Chronicle Of Higher Education and frames it in terms of the privilege involved. That one is subscription-only, but if you have an in, I though you might to know it's there.