Sunday Reading

by zunguzungu

I’m on semi-vacation from blogging, but since my link-collection system is more or less woven into my internet reading routine, you’ll just get a shorter bare-bones version of more or less the same thing. Enjoy!

• The Burger Economy
• Children pick your vegetables.
• Everything [Ezra Klein knows] about the debt ceiling in a post. And his argument that A small deal won’t cut it.
• What Obama was willing to give away
• Frederick Law Olmstead and the South
• Policing immigrants
• Marshall McLuhan chats with high school students
• Al Franken is pretty good at being a senator
• California’s exurban foreclosure crisis.
• Freedom from pain
• Zimbabwe’s filthy lucre
• The usual suspects
• Pakistan orchestra reinvents jazz classics
• This article needs to be read, and mocked.
• Wage crisis, not just unemployment crisis.
• Review of “Chavs.” Much of what is said there works for hillbillies/trailer trash, I reckon.
• The omnipotence of Al-Qaeda and the meaninglessness of “terrorism”.
• You can see desire lines worn into the surface of grass. You cannot see them on asphalt
• Under his pen, all the empires of the world are revealed in the bare nudity of their ignorant monstrousity.
• Murdoch-block
• I’ve been meaning to read Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch for quite some time now.
• The Guardian talks to and about Zizek
• Jay Rosen on NewsCorp and Murdoch; the his top 40 links to stories about it.
• Binyavanga Wainaina’s book just came out.
• As an actually-existing phenomenon, terrorism in Europe is mainly the work of Christian-heritage people.
• Your tax increase, my spending cut.
• Why there aren’t more union members in the US. Also, some labor links.
• My Body, My Choice, My Ice Cream
• Reading and contemplating David Graeber on debt, here, here, and here
• You get $7k if you catch Wells Fargo stealing your house
• If coal is so good, why is WV so poor?
• Urban design: today’s reason why we fail as a society.
• The Washington Post owes the world an apology for this item. Leaping to Islamophobic conclusions.
• Obama: the Democrats’ Nixon
• The “squatter” that got a mansion for 16 dollars.
• Whether we know it or not, we are all Arrighians now
• Our investigation is based on total facts.
• Conflating Animals and Africans.
• No prosecution of Morgan Tsvangirai.
• Left-neoliberalism and a theory of politics. Towards a liberal critize of left-neoliberalism policy.
• Prison law blog’s roundup. Rortybomb’s friday links.
• Lauren Berlant.
• ACLU supports California prison hunger strike.
• Aaron Swartz arrested for downloading articles. On how infuriating is JSTOR. On how it makes pirates of us all. The economics of JSTOR.  And “on  a bogus indictment over a fictitious crime,” statement in support of Swartz.
• An interview with the writer/director of Beginners, which I thought was great.
• On how banks are still using robo-signers.
• Interview with Economics of Contempt on one year anniversary of Dodd-Frank.