learned folly

shalizi on the elsevier boycott.

and the last fight let us face

hyperreality at “recall kasich” rally.

no good deed unpunished

outside the box (jay parkinson MD).

see why, eh?

bill cronon, scholar and citizen.

spotted at sue v’s

doug borderland noon on the story of bottled water (annie leonard).

please don’t mention april first

you know my methods watson:
british court rules for science.

ooey-pooey org’ers virtual ink link.

reflective educator on newsweek propaganda piece.

never get outta the boat

Liberalism since the 1950s has been defined in considerable part by a commitment to technocratic administration and the vigorous rejection of populist appeals and of progressivism (the progressivism of 1920-1940). It’s very anti-popular, and I didn’t know that until a few years ago, when I was astonished by the things I was hearing people saying. I blame Hofstadter, Schlesinger Jr., Daniel Bell, and the early Galbraith. Since 1968 this has crippled the Democrats; they refuse to make a populist appeal, in part because they’re too corrupt to do so plausibly, but beyond that too.

John Emerson in a comment on his own post (“charlie brown is charlie brown”).

what am *i* gonna do with it?

the zero rupee note.

tales from the occupation

milwaukee public schools in in these times.

zot’s corporate personhood links

in the comments.

Candidate Barack Obama was one sharp speaker, but he would not have been heard, and certainly would not have won, without the astonishing outpouring of donations from two million Americans. It was an unprecedented uprising-by-PayPal, overwhelming the old fat-cat sources of funding.

Well, kiss that small-donor revolution goodbye.

–g. palast