A Few More for Friday While I Procrastinate
* A week ago, no-olds was a novelty; today it is one of the profession’s most cherished traditions. I’ll just recycle my jokes from Twitter: “Anyone who’s been on market longer than that knows how quickly Harvard and Yale turn asst profs over. They want it to be a surprise.”
* When ideologies collide: Man Accused of Threatening Woman with Handgun for Smoking While Pregnant.
* Chait: Mitt Romney created his most recent campaign shitstorm by launching an attack that was, simultaneously, an absurdly disingenuous argument built upon a series of demonstrable lies. After an initial period of recrimination andlashing out at the media, Romney and his allies are insisting that he was absolutely correct all along. It is a remarkable testament to the party’s ability not just to engage in spin but create and sustain an alternate reality. Meanwhile, SEK is having too much fun with his smirking-Mitt meme.
* Nate Cohn and Ed Kilgore have your polling roundups. The short version is that while it’s not over, it’s definitely slipping away from Romney.
* Should We Stop Referring to Student Loans as “Financial Aid”? Researching 2000s college aid admissions on behalf of my brilliant cousin, it’s struck me how decisively “no-loan aid” has become a new marker of elite status in recent years for Ivy and Ivy-Plus schools.
* William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrong. J.G. Ballard vs. the fans.
* Lost and Found: NPR has all your vintage photographs.
* And of course you had me at “New Monkey Discovered.”
Written by gerrycanavan
September 14, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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