Friday Links!
* Inauguration Day at Marquette.
* Chess! Catch the fever!
* I am novelist David Mitchell, AMA.
* Retaliation against unionizing adjuncts at Mills College?
* UC regents award 20 percent pay raises to fix executive ‘injustices.’
Heralding what the University of California regents promise will be a new era of pay increases at the public university, the governing board gave 20 percent raises Thursday to their three lowest-paid chancellors – with some regents expressing regret that they could give so little.
* Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?
* The Promise of Socialist Feminism.
* Jersey represent: A New Jersey borough council candidate dropped out of the race on Wednesday after reports surfaced that he mooned patrons at a local diner while yelling racial slurs, according to NJ Advance Media.
* Thomas Frank remembers Occupy.
* Also at the Baffler: U2, Apple, and the Strip-Mining of Punk Rebellion.
* 75 iconic photos from the 21st century, nearly all of them keyed to violence or war.
* The Earth could have 11 billion people by 2100. Looks like the good news on overpopulation was premature.
* 30 Photos of Wisconsin That Will Make You Want To Move There. Catch the fever!
* “That first scene, where he’s in the temple and he’s replacing that statue with a bag of sand – that’s what looters do,” Canuto says, grinning. “[The temple builders] are using these amazing mechanisms of engineering and all he wants to do is steal the stupid gold statue.”
* Teacher Who Learns More From Her Students Than She Teaches Them Fired.
* The New Way Insurers Are Shifting Costs To The Sick. You incorrigible scamps!
* Harvard is better at admitting low-income students than the University of Wisconsin.
* Innocent People In New York Who Can’t Afford A Lawyer Are Pretty Much Doomed.
* Texas court throws out ‘paternalistic’ ban on ‘upskirt’ photos. Ludicrous outcome.
* Elsewhere in the rule of law: Judge: Hobby Lobby Decision Means Polygamous Sect Member Can Refuse To Testify In Child Labor Case.
* SMBC: Do You Ever Fear Death?
* I too have now played all of season two of The Walking Dead and I too can confirm it’s totally great. I’m going to use it in my video game course next semester for sure.
* Student evaluations: still terrible.
* What could possibly go wrong watch: arming Syrian rebels to fight ISIS, who are also Syrian rebels, but listen, this is all going to turn out great.
* I only pray we can construct the border wall across the Great Lakes in time.
* They say we don’t believe in the future enough to embark on generational projects anymore, but they’re going to try to clean the bathrooms at the Port Authority.
* The kids are a little bit frightening: A Milwaukee teen charged in a string of armed robberies last week told police he was trying to do as many crimes as he could before he turned 18 on Sept. 11.
* What Europe Would Look Like If All the Separatist Movements Got Their Way.
* And Slate covers the exciting return of Vermont secessionism.
Written by gerrycanavan
September 19, 2014 at 8:00 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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