Sunday Night Links!

* But trains loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil thread the thickly populated areas of some of the nation’s biggest cities. Including Milwaukee.

* Love Song for a Neoliberal University: StarbucksU.

* Corinthian Colleges Inc. shut down its remaining 28 for-profit career schools, ending classes for about 16,000 students, in the biggest collapse in U.S. higher education.

* I’m not anti-technology, or anti-innovation. And I think traditional colleges are deeply flawed. But I am very, very much against expanding the money-laundering side of our financial aid system. And that is the coal mine into which the ASU-EdX canary is being lowered.

* Surge Pricing for Your Entire Life.

* On the deep grammar of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner.

* Hell didn’t exist, so we built it: the Alcatraz of the Rockies.

* What It’s Like to Be a Girl in America’s Juvenile Justice System.

* Baltimore “has paid about $5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming that police officers brazenly beat up alleged suspects. One hidden cost: The perception that officers are violent can poison the relationship between residents and police.”

* The myth of police reform.

* A Residence With Locking Doors And A Working Toilet Is All That’s Needed To Justify A No-Knock Warrant.

* This is the toxic tribalism that repeats itself over and over throughout the West. Western victims are mourned and humanized, while victims of Western violence are invisible and thus dehumanized. Aside from being repugnant in its own right, this formula, by design, is deeply deceptive as propaganda: It creates the impression among Western populations that we are the victims but not the perpetrators of heinous violence, that terrorism is something done to us but that we never commit ourselves, that “primitive, radical and inhumanely violent” describes the enemy tribe but not our own.

* When George Packer gets bored, I get worried. It means he’s in the mood for war.

* Tom DeLay: People keep forgetting that God ‘wrote the Constitution.’

* Can We Preserve the Ferguson QuikTrip? Ferguson’s Fortune 500 Company.

* Entire Treasury Department Competing For Same Goldman Sachs Job Opening.

* Ex-NBA player who made $60 million explains what really happens to your money when you sign an 8-figure contract.

* 23 maps and charts on language.

* Before And After: Earthquake Destroys Kathmandu’s Centuries-Old Landmarks.

* How Well Does ‘Daredevil’ Handle Disability Issues?

* Tetris: The Unauthorized Biography.

* An Abandoned Island in The Middle of NYC.

* Native Hawaiians are fighting off an invasion of astronomers. The Heart of the Hawaiian Peoples’ Arguments Against the Telescope on Mauna Kea.

* And some local interest from the Decolonial Atlas: The Great Lakes in Ojibwe.

Crazy Busy Today

Seriously busy day today—hardly able to catch my breath. In lieu of that, some links.

* It was an unexpectedly good day for the Communofascist wing of the Democratic Party, with Joe Sestak beating Arlen Specter, Mark Critz winning in PA-12, and Bill Halter forcing Blanche Lincoln into a run-off in Arkansas. That Richard Blumenthal has managed to completely shit the bed in Connecticut can wait perhaps for another night.

* The video of our most recent Polygraph event—John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark discussing “the consumer trap—is now on iTunesU. The download should be free to everyone.

* A from-bad-to-worse update on the story of a seven-year-old Detroit girl killed by police officers during a no-knock raid: they may have been filming a reality show.

* Extreme weather videos in hailstorm and tornado flavors. Both links via MeFi.

* It’s pretty scary to think that a person without basic qualifications could fraudulently pilot jets for 13 years without being caught, but at the same time it’s actually fairly comforting that in all that time nothing bad happened.

* This Dark Knight / Toy Story 2 mashup is an instant classic of the genre.

* Raising academic dishonesty to the level of art.

* Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8 will be set in New York. I am intrigued.

* Lenin’s Tomb on why neoliberalism persists.

* And preparing now for next year’s job market. And the next year’s. And the next year’s…

Midday Monday Whatnot

* Sestakmentum in Pennsylvania. Atrios has the ad that may have changed everything.

* Via Beatriz, Democracy Now’s story on the student strikes in Puerto Rico, now entering their 28th day.

* Deepwater Horizon should have been inspected once a month, but MMS seems unable to say how many times it inspected the rig at all. A 60 Minutes report found gross negligence on the part of BP, but don’t worry, they’ve promised they’ll make it right. No further action is required.

* What your parents think when you don’t answer the phone.

* An Arizona nun has been excommunicated for approving a life-saving abortion.

* A seven-year-old was killed by Detroit police in a no-knock raid.

* But beauty pageants are the only thing that really matter.