Catching my eye: morning A through Z

Here’s what’s caught my eye this morning:

• PurpleStater of CenterFeud has overcome his writer’s block with a series of good posts. Just keep scrolling.
• There are a pair of interesting posts over on NuSapiens. Here he muses on the limitations of our way of thinking about discrete languages. And here he has a very interesting post on the genetic heritage of the Indian subcontinent. Just as interesting would be a discussion about something that relates the two subjects: the interplay of language and genetics in India which has an enormous number of languages both Indo-European and non.
• Donald Sensing, inspired by the recent anniversary of the only actual uses of nuclear weapons by the United States against Japan in World War II, comments on the use of the atomic bomb.
• So, what’s keeping Europeans from stepping up to the plate to actually do something about terrorism? Peaktalk has some ideas.
• Has the mayor of Baghdad been overthrown in a coup? Steven Taylor attempts to sort it all out.
• Here’s an example of why I love reading The Religious Policeman:
  

  Mrs A and I have been very happily married for many years. However when I suggest, in jest, that a second wife might give me a new perspective on life, she replies, in jest, that when her brothers have pegged me out on the ground in the desert, near the scorpion colony, that life might be somewhat shortened.

That’s the lot.