All the Links of the Week in One Convenient Location
* Ending the World the Human Way: Why can no one talk about climate change?
* You’ve seen it linked everywhere, but not here! Woody Allen’s Good Name. Don’t Listen to Woody Allen’s Biggest Defender. The Internet Digs Up Woody Allen’s Creepy Child-Loving Past. Woody Allen, My Pen Pal.
* The Boston Globe: The Invisible Professor. Part-Time Professors Demand Higher Pay; Will Colleges Listen? 111 Colleges Are Accused of Violating Law by Requiring Student-Aid Forms.
* Another university makes the queen sacrifice.
* Privilege and the Ph.D. The Tenure Code. 1,600 letters of recommendation.
* Fifty-Five Bodies, and Zero Trials, at the Florida School for Boys.
* Even the liberal Kevin Drum thinks former senator, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has no accomplishments to run of president on, unlike (say) Obama when he ran for president, or George W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, or Mitt Romney, or….
* “The entire system is a joke. There is absolutely no living, breathing person with any kind of intellect who believes that a grand jury could consider and vote on 10 complex issues in the period of time that they use to deliberate on hundreds,” Joe Cheshire, a Raleigh attorney who handles criminal cases across North Carolina, told The Charlotte Observer.
* And all perfectly legal: Missouri Executes Man While His Appeal Was Still Pending Before Supreme Court.
* Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?
* Broken clock watch: Antonin Scalia is… making sense?
* Wisconsin Teacher Fired for… Receiving Emails from His Sister.
* Cook, an Edinburg marksman, was target shooting toward the school from about a mile away when he struck the boys Dec. 12, 2011. The gunshots left Nicholas “Nicko” Tijerina, then 13, paralyzed and Edson Amaro, then 14, with serious internal organ damage.
* From the archives: In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series. Harry Potter novels renamed.
* I think I’ve done this one before, too, but what the hell: Lynda Barry’s Course Syllabus.
* If It Happened There: The Super Bowl.
* Unloved Films, Part III: “The Hudsucker Proxy.”
* Daily Life in the Slave Quarters.
* A Local Teen’s Documentary on Slavery Premieres Friday in Detroit.
* How the Myth of the ‘Negro Cocaine Fiend’ Helped Shape American Drug Policy.
* Faculty set strike date at UIC.
* Closing SodaStream’s West Bank Factories Would Hurt Palestinians, but That’s Not the Point.
* ACLU lawsuit challenges Wisconsin same-sex marriage ban. Lawsuit claims Apple infringing on University of Wisconsin patent. Water Levels of the Great Lakes Are Declining.
* CVS Will Stop Selling Tobacco Products by October. I can’t believe it’s taken this long; it’s shocked me that pharmacies sold cigarettes ever since I worked in one way back in high school.
* Rest in peace, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
* Brooklyn chess star battles the pressure of expectations.
* A Mystery Illness Is Causing Starfish to Rip Themselves Into Pieces.
* Gasp! Marx Was Right!
* Gasp! Tar Sands Oil Development Is More Toxic Than Previously Thought, Study Finds.
* Gasp! Administrator Hiring Drove 28% Boom in Higher-Ed Work Force, Report Says.
* 12 Post-Potter Revelations J.K. Rowling Has Shared.
* California Considers Raising Its Minimum Wage To The Highest In The Country.
* What They’re Saying About The Grand Budapest Hotel.
* Now hanging on the wall of my office: The Life of Thought.
* It’s very important to McDonald’s that you know McNuggets are acceptably gross.
* Science Fiction as a Childhood Coping Mechanism.
* And the future truly is weird: Woman Gives Birth To Children, Discovers Her Twin Is Actually The Biological Mother, But She Is Technically Her Own Twin.
Written by gerrycanavan
February 5, 2014 at 7:30 am
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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Gerry Canavan 
Kill someone execution style, get indicted on manslaughter charges (that will probably get dropped in the end, anyway). Sounds like justice to me.
Alex Greenberg
February 5, 2014 at 11:38 am
I think Scalia is suggesting that internment was wrong, but given similar circumstances, he would vote the same way the Supreme Court did then. So… not sure he’s right as much as just plain evil.
Alex Greenberg
February 5, 2014 at 12:06 pm
I took his comments the other way (because of the framing TPM used) but I’d be perfectly happy to have him be wrong about this too…
gerrycanavan
February 5, 2014 at 1:51 pm
Engelhardt’s point, about the lack of occasions for repeating facts about climate change on the front page, is why we so desperately need CC direct action: to cause talk.
Stephen Frug
February 5, 2014 at 12:55 pm