The efficiency of America's criminal justice system is a thoroughly divided issue, the lines of which are drawn via the very walls of stone and concrete that serve to separate the guilty from the innocent.

It’s already an international bestseller, this third in the Millennium series by Steig Larsson, a series centered on Millennium, a struggling financial magazine. The novel also very well may be the best of the series.

For the past decade (and counting), the juggernaut known as global warming has occupied dual roles in the consciousness of the world at large. The phenomenon is often heralded by professionals and politicians as being irrefutably concrete, while public opinion tends to treat the concept as being nothing more than an alarmist’s comically oversized estimations.

Every so often, something comes along that causes me to question my capacity for objectivity. For instance, I want to say that dumplings should be hand-rolled, because that is the most efficient way to prepare them. In actuality, I might only feel this way because that’s how Grandma used to do it.