As many of you know, I'm on the board of 826 Valencia, a great organization that serves kids in San Francisco. We're building out a new center in the Tenderloin (in a building that used to be a liquor store), and Google will give us $250K towards that project if we get enough online votes. As a guy who has benefited from the tech boom, it's extremely important to me that we do our part to spread some of the wealth to kids living a few blocks away -- but in a completely different world. So please do me a quick favor and vote for 826 Valencia on the Google Impact Challenge site right now. It will take you two seconds and there's no registration required.

+ Dave Eggers (author of The Circle) is one of the founders of 826 Valencia, and I'm constantly trying to convince him of the power of the Internet and social media (I'm so tired of having to print out and fax NextDraft to him every day). If we win, I promised to send him a telegram delivered via horseback with the good news. So do me this solid and support a great cause with a couple clicks.

"A much tinier number die alone in unwatched struggles. No one collects their bodies. No one mourns the conclusion of a life. They are just a name added to the death tables. In the year 2014, George Bell, age 72, was among those names." That has changed since the NYT's N.R. Kleinfield wrote a piece on the life and death of a random New Yorker: The Lonely Death of George Bell.

A microcosm of the current Middle East flare-up played out at a bus station in southern Israel on Sunday night. A Palestinian attacker stabbed and shot several Israelis. Meanwhile, at the other end of the bus station, a man was shot by police and then attacked by bystanders. "In graphic video from the scene, the Eritrean asylum seeker can be seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood, while a mob around him gathers, throwing a bench at him and kicking him." It turned out the man was entirely un-connected to the attack.

+ NYT Interactive: What started as a popular uprising against the Syrian government four years ago has become a proto-world war with nearly a dozen countries embroiled in two overlapping conflicts.

+ In The New Yorker, Nicholas Schmidle tracks one refugee's epic escape from Syria: Ten Borders.

WaPo on the upcoming drone registration requirements: "Federal regulators said Monday that they plan to require recreational drone users to register their aircraft with the government for the first time in an attempt to restore order to U.S. skies, which have been invaded by rogue flying robots." (If nothing else, you gotta admit Americans know how to have fun.)

"Dave Loughran pushes another cigarette into the ashtray on the balcony and walks back into the glow of his 55-inch television, sliding the screen door shut. His girlfriend, Justine Porretti, sits on the couch, her eyes moving from the study packets on her lap to the Sunday night National Football League game and back again." Kent Babb on the current life of a guy who dropped out of college and quit his job to go full time on Fantasy football (which makes him a modern day everyman). And yes, seriously, he has a girlfriend.

Jay Carney, former White House press secretary and current communications VP at Amazon, took to Medium to dispute a recent NYT story on the bad working conditions at Amazon. NYT Exec Editor Dean Baquet used Medium to respond to Carney's assertions. Baquet runs the country's most notable newspaper and Carney's boss owns The Washington Post, but they both posted on Medium. In the battle between big business and big media, an easy to use content management system comes out the winner. (Jay Carney plans to post a follow-up piece as soon as his 16 hour box-packing shift is over.)

+ Meanwhile, Amazon has sued more than a thousand of its sellers for posting fake product reviews. (I'm guessing the jury will give this case three stars.)

"I was intrigued and appalled throughout the entire podcast." That was exactly the kind of feedback Phil Bronstein and I were hoping for when we launched What Hurts, Worrying About the News since 2015. You can listen here, subscribe on iTunes, or just search for What Hurts in your favorite podcast app.

The London Review of Books reviews the current state of Trump: "Bloomberg puts Trump's current net worth at $2.9 billion, Forbes at $4.1 billion. The National Journal has worked out that if Trump had just put his father's money in a mutual fund that tracked the S&P 500 and spent his career finger-painting, he'd have $8 billion." (Maybe, but he wouldn't be on the verge of getting secret service protection.)

Oprah has joined the board of Weight Watchers and acquired ten percent of the company. The news resulted in massive gains in Weight Watchers' stock price. I like the potential of the core business, but will it scale?

"A man aboard a San Francisco-bound flight was detained Sunday night after he apparently tried to strangle a fellow passenger who had leaned her seat back." (I think we should all withhold judgment until we find out exactly how far back the seat was tilted...)

+ The economic boom has led to a boom in a new area of psychiatric care: Wealth Therapy.

+ And a tombstone gunfight re-enactment resulted in two people being shot. What the blank?