Posts Tagged ‘Jon Huntsman’
Links from the Weekend
* The Call of Cthulhu, by Dr. Seuss.
* Traxus considers Occupy Austin. Žižek goes to Occupy Wall Street. Dear Occupiers: A Letter from Anarchists.
* What do you call a bunch of law schools getting sued for lying about employment data? A good start.
* What everyone is too polite to say about Steve Jobs. Against Nostalgia.
* MetaFilter has all your Breaking Bad finale links. We haven’t seen the last episode yet, but the buzz is good.
* The word “new” has no place in the title of this document. Nearly all of these chancellors were in office during the twenty years of UC public funding decline, and have come together to advocate the acceleration of what they have been doing all along. This consists of advocating business-as-usual non-public revenue growth on a base of doubled tuition.
* In 1979, traveling unsupervised around the neighborhood was a developmental milestone for six-year-olds. Nowadays my parent friends tell me it’s widely considered child abuse.
* The beta text for the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is up.
* And science has finally proven optimism is a mental illness. Have a good night.
Thursday! Wisconsin, Optical Illusions, the Death of the Public University, and More
* Some genuinely breaking news: Wisconsin’s anti-union bill was just struck down for violating the state’s open meetings law.
* …the curious thing about this report is that it dances around policy questions, but doesn’t ask a single one directly, or name a single policy that has shaped the higher education landscape. “The public” is asked to confine its thoughts to individual success; “college presidents” are asked to ruminate on the mission of college. But the two are never articulated as part of the same system, or as having a mutual set of interests that are social and organically intertwined. And this, I would argue, is because neoliberal government policies, and right-wing political demagoguery, have sold the ideology of “low taxes” and “small government” so successfully that the moral commitment of the state to nurture an educated citizenry has entirely evaporated from the equation.
* Ohio hates John Kasich. But GOP voters love Herman Cain; he’s outpolling Pawlenty now, and nearly tied with Gingrich and Ron Paul.
* Steve Benen notes that Jon Huntsman is so liberal he could probably be a credible candidate in the Democratic primary in 2016. As I noted on Twitter the sad thing is that’s really as strong an argument against Democrats as it is for Huntsman.
* And just a little bit of awesome: your optical illusions of the year.
Thursday Night Links
* Lucylou is illustrating Harry Potter.
* Parts 3 and 4 of Foundation Week at io9.
* Also at io9: An infographic explaining the Phantom Time Hypothesis. Is the idea really that complicated?
* TEPCO has confirmed what we already knew: Fukushima suffered a full meltdown.
* Even more Portal 2 speedruns.
* When Facebook smeared Google.
* Republican follies! Jon Huntsman pulls a Pawlenty, pretends he doesn’t believe in climate change anymore. The John Ensign case has been referred to the Department of Justice for prosecution. John McCain hates torture again. The Wall Street Journal hates Mitt Romney. And so does Mitt Romney.