Here's some good reading for your long weekend. Science:
How global warming sealed the fate of the world's coral reefs
Great Barrier Reef facing 'catastrophic damage' from climate change
Great Barrier Reef faces catastrophe
200-pound snake killed in Okeechobee adds to mounting python woes
Other:
A Missing Ingredient in Health-Care Coverage
The Gestapo Precedent for "EITs"
Confusion is not the word you're looking for
The system Republicans and other crazies are defending
He was in 1952, anyway. By way of Oliver Willis, from Glenn Hauman: