Tuesday Links!
* Unpublished Octavia Butler stories coming out this June.
* Sex! Now that I’ve got your attention, why not apply for a postdoc at the Penn Humanities Forum this year?
* Study: 1 in 25 death penalty cases likely innocent.
* Sterling, the Clippers, the NBA, and the state of exception.
* Clearly, our colleges and universities are no longer places where the primary focus is on instruction. Instead, they are places where the primary goal is to entrench and to expand administrative bureaucracies.
* The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back. Ten Steps to Becoming an Adjunct Ally.
* The Soul of the Research University.
* “Is there racism against drones?” On no, is there? IS THERE?
* If millionaires were a political party, that party would make up just three percent of the country, but it would have a majority in the House of Representatives, a filibuster-proof super-majority in the Senate, a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court, and a man in the White House. If!
* The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Left.
* A brief history of “not all men.”
* More on Game of Thrones vs. A Song of Ice and Fire.
* “Look, I got a gun and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
* Next year Parks and Recreation will be “light” sci-fi. Yay!
* Has There Ever Been a Better Patron of the Arts Than the CIA?
* And a bonafide miracle. The Comcast/Time Warner merger will spin off Milwaukee customers to a completely third company. People say this new company is even worse than either of the other two, but I feel confident this is impossible.
Written by gerrycanavan
April 29, 2014 at 8:40 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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