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.
Thank you for this great list of links!
Some great posts in here. Sorry you’re taking a blogging hiatus though. Come back soon!
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