Monday Morning Links
* …when Priorities informed a focus group that Romney supported the Ryan budget plan — and thus championed “ending Medicare as we know it” — while also advocating tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the respondents simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing.
* …according to this New York Times piece, working conditions have gotten so bad that advertisers can now depict utopia as… taking a lunch break. But of course it’d never work in practice. Be realistic.
* In the sciences, Ph.D. ≠ job.
* America’s Billionaires: Are They Crazy Enough?
* Finding out Talking Points Memo pays bonuses for traffic is like finding out Santa Claus is as crooked as everybody else. Terrible.
* South Korea may start hunting whales again, for ‘science’.
* NFL concussion update from MetaFilter.
* SMBC presents a superhero for our times: the Iron Sociopath.
* Larry Tye’s brief history of Superman.
* Fraggle Rock‘s Dozers will get their own TV show. Yes, please.
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