Can It Be? More Wednesday Links?
* …as long as critics and publishers frame African literature as always on the cusp, it will continue to be an emerging literature whose emergence is infinitely deferred. It will remain utopian, just out of reach.
* Also from Aaron Bady: ‘House of Cards’ Should Stop Trying to Be ‘The West Wing.’
* How To Lower Univ. of Illinois Tuition (and it can work at other universities too).
* Columbia Graduate Students Push for a Labor Union.
* The Loser Edit That Awaits Us All.
* How One University Unexpectedly Found Itself Ranked Among the ‘25 Most Dangerous Colleges.’ This is pretty horrifying, even before you get to my intuition that this is all prelude to an extortion scheme.
* Teaching evaluations: still bad! Don’t use them!
* Legendary, lost civilization discovered in Honduras rainforest 1,000 years later.
* Brian Williams has finally found the women responsible for his mistakes.
* Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon.
* My name is Ozymandias, Sim of Sims — look upon my work, ye Maxis, and despair.
* Remember the Maryland parents who let their two kids walk home from a park alone and then had to deal with police and child protective services? They heard from the state today. The couple was found responsible for “unsubstantiated” child neglect, a confusing charge that resolved nothing and left the couple possibly more nervous and paranoid than ever.
* Pharrell Made Only $2,700 In Songwriter Royalties From 43 Million Plays Of ‘Happy’ On Pandora. Disruptatational! Innovasmagoric!
* Daddy, what do you want me to be when I grow up?
* And from the too-good-to-check file: Profile of Hulk, a 175-pound pit bull.
Gerry Canavan 
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