Thursday!
* It seems likely to me that at some point in the postwar era, the world had actually collectively created something like “the material conditions for full communism” — but powerful people made choices that led to a voluntary continuation of the logic of scarcity even when we were no longer physically constrained by actual-existing scarcity. The result has been a squandering of those resources in such a way as to set up environmental catastrophes that will almost certainly return us to a condition of real scarcity.
* Adjunct Professors at Tufts Organize with SEIU.
* Dumb, pointless boondoggle halted after obvious thing happens.
* What’s going on in Colorado is an outstanding case study in what happens when a black market becomes a legal one, and it’s something we probably won’t see again in any of our lifetimes.
* America’s three biggest jail systems, with more than 11,000 prisoners under treatment on any given day, represent by far the largest mental-health treatment facilities in the country.
* The United States of Shame: What Is Your State the Worst At?
* Choose Your Own Adventure Books Based on Breaking Bad.
* Seusstastic Park, A Jurassic Park/Doctor Seuss Mashup.
* ObamaCare List Hits 313 As 54 Colleges Cut Adjunct Hours.
* At the University of Toronto, students have created their own exchanges where they can pay students who are enrolled in a class which is full to drop out, thus opening space for themselves. In other words, a secondary market in class spaces has spontaneously emerged (as markets do).
* Marissa Alexander has been awarded a new trial.
* What happens when calling 911 could cost you your home.
* Randolph County Board of Education backs down.
* ABC teases exciting Agents of Shield post-credits gimmick.
* And even Joss Whedon thinks his work for Marvel is kind of a bummer.
Was the first link (on the italicized quote about full communism & material scarcity) supposed to go to the Wall Street Journal essay “The New Asylums: Jails Swell With Mentally Ill”? I can’t tell because the WSJ piece is paywalled, but that’s where the link is going now. Is that right?
Stephen Frug
September 26, 2013 at 10:09 pm
Ok, a little googling, and I think I see the right link:
http://itself.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/its-the-political-economy-stupid/
…and I’ve now seen the second WSJ link, on an appropriate piece, confirming my priors that that was a mixup and not some strange piece of communist propaganda to somehow infiltrate America’s business paper. (Although didn’t Cockburn or somebody used to have a column in it?)
Stephen Frug
September 26, 2013 at 10:13 pm
Fixed!
gerrycanavan
September 26, 2013 at 10:18 pm