FREAK-est Links

1. “Why tornadoes take the weekends off.” (HT: Michael Teague)
2. Who knew that glove-making, of all sorts, was such a Jewish field?
3. A “twin-town” in Ukraine: interesting and a little bit bizarre — especially “the terrors of grade 6.” (HT: Kelly Fawke)
4. Freakonomics in an Ohio State Univ. court case.
5. The most gracious I’ve-been-fired note ever?