Things to read

A couple of articles floated through my awareness today:

• Vladimir Putin has gone so far into the language of paranoia around today's shoot-down that one starts to get nervous. (Richard Hofstadter should be required reading.) Josh Marshall, ever the optimist, says it can still get worse.
• Bruce Schneier is nervous, too, about the policy repercussions from the Paris attacks.
• News flash: Donald Trump is a racist liar who sounds a lot like George Wallace and Ted Cruz Joseph McCarthy.
• IFLS outlines what happens when you drink. It's a good reminder, says the guy who had a Gluhwein at Christkindlmarket at lunch.
• WBEZ's Curious City asks, when does the CTA break even on a bus route?

Happy reading.