Daily Bafflements

• A $15 minimum wage doesn’t sound so high after all when the AP calculates that a full-time job with that hourly pay (about $31,000 a year) still only buys the very basics in Seattle and many other American cities.

• Meanwhile, CNN describes how business owners are figuring out how to “cope” with the astronomical wage they will now be required to pay their workers.

• Here is a chart that will show you the most common cause of death for Americans at every age. (Via Laura Olin.)

• Listen, these bafflements are pretty dark today, and we apologize. To balance that out, may we submit this a picture of a donkey-powered library?