http://www.salon.com/2012/12/21/study_alcohol_not_marijuana_is_bad_for_your_brain/?source=newsletter

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/opinion/to-save-syria-america-needs-russias-help.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121222&_r=0&pagewanted=print

http://www.alternet.org/print/does-bible-make-americans-more-violent

Between the humiliating and chaotic collapse of Speaker Boehner’s already ludicrously extreme Plan B and Wayne La Pierre’s deranged proposal

http://www.alternet.org/print/economy/our-republic-ending-8-striking-parallels-between-fall-rome-and-us

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/opinion/krugman-playing-taxes-hold-em.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121221&pagewanted=print

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/opinion/national-rifle-selling-association.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121221&_r=0&pagewanted=print

http://www.alternet.org/print/media/we-are-country-drenched-bloodshed-some-hard-truths-about-violence-media

http://www.alternet.org/print/environment/how-country-one-worlds-largest-economies-ditching-fossil-fuels

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/12/20/putin-u-s-screwed-up-libya.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_afternoon&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_afternoon&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet