Daily Bafflements

• What would it look like if we chose our political representatives not by elections but by lottery? Alexander Guerrero in Aeon describes a “lottocracy.” (See also: “Against Merit,” by Gabriel Zaid, online now.)

• Billionaires: they’re just like us! They beat the crap out of their best friends on the street while the paparazzi swarm.

• The ignominious Credit Suisse is making a deal with the feds that may involve a guilty plea and a $1 billion fine.

• This Buzzfeed post imagining how websites like Vice, Upworthy, and Red State would cover the Monica Lewinsky scandal today is just delicious.