Posts Tagged ‘Katy Perry’
Friday Links Part Two Has Sent Layoff Notices to All Employees
* With state funding cut off due to the ongoing budget impasse, Chicago State University has announced all 900 employees, including the university president, are receiving layoff notices. This is stunning.
* On the other side of the country and the other side of pessimism: SFSU pledges to maintain funding for College of Ethnic Studies. “College faculty, however, said the financial boost promised Thursday won’t cover all of its costs.”
* The Secret History of Deadpool.
* R-Rated Superhero Stories Are Inherently Revisionist.
* Nobody ever said creeping fascism has to mean no laughs. Well, maybe one person said.
* Sci-Fi/Fantasy “Best Of” Lists: A Visualization.
* A Statistical Analysis Of Stephen Colbert’s First 100 Episodes Of ‘The Late Show.’
Wednesday (Nothin’ But) Links
* If my Internets are any guide, the most-linked article of the day by a mile: Jose Antonio Vargas’s “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.”
* There is literally nothing you can say to me that will make me disbelieve the Post‘s Lady Gaga/Žižek scoop. Do not try! It’s definitely, definitely true.
* Al Gore takes on Obama’s failure to lead on climate change in the latest Rolling Stone. Great piece.
* Also in Rolling Stone: Matt Taibbi voyages into the heart of darkness Michele Bachmann.
* Also in change we can believe in: Obama will reduce U.S. troops in Afghanistan to the level they were at when he took office. Yes we can!
* More from the Mother Jones special report on work in America: Harrowing, Heartbreaking Tales of Overworked Americans.
* The headline reads, “Ocean Life on the Brink of Mass Extinctions.”
* Of course you had me at Muppet Game of Thrones.
* Life imitates the Onion: Sarah Palin has quit her bus tour halfway through.
* Behold Randall Munroe’s terrible power, and despair: 500 Still Frames of Joe Biden Eating a Sandwich.
* And Katy Perry comes out as a communist. It’s really no surprise; all her friends are red…
Gerry Canavan 