0431 by Jeff Hess
Let a thousand flowers bloomberg, On the difficulties of deleveraging, “The contemporary American law school is based on bullshit”, Help, help, I’m being repressed!, The other Chelsea A story from Donetsk, Nazi racial ideology was religious, creationist and opposed to Darwinism, Fed bashing gone wild, The Fed Bailouts: Money for Nothing, The Rise and Fall of the Recipe Card, Middle-class white guy writes about what he would do if he were a poor black kid. Craziness ensues, Can We Identify a Principled, Limited Federal Edu-Role?, Who is a journalist?, Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?, Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms, The Meaning of Equal, Ohio House Rep. Murray Seeks Investigation of Redistricting Process, JJS the new DFW, The Diversity of the White Working Class, The Sex Trade, Part 1: Pleasure, At Any Price, Best Longform Reporting of 2011, The Autism Enigma, The Obstinate Dr. Heicklen, Just What Do The Rich Have That’s Taxable?, Aida Batlle and the new coffee evangelists, Learning Space at Open University, Zatoichi and The Elegant Universe.
I use a Firefox app called Read It Later to download stories from the Intertubes that I find interesting but don’t have time at the moment to dive into. The above are the pieces that caught my eye yesterday.
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0430 by Jeff Hess
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0702 by Jeff Hess
Tim Russo writes:
If you get an NRA member cornered on why the 2nd Amendment is so important, why gun ownership should be given such reverence, they invariably argue that the right to bear arms was put into the Constitution by the Founders so that an armed citizenry can defend itself against infringement on basic rights.
So where has the NRA been as jack booted, black clad, armed officers of government dressed in riot gear arrest and brutalize citizens by the thousands who are merely exercising their 1st Amendment rights to free speech and peaceful assembly on public property? Even the most paranoid apocalyptic visions of government oppression never imagined this scale of government denial of the rights which the NRA claims the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms exists to prevent.
There will be a minority of National Rifle Association members who get this, but just as union organizers and members signed its own political death warrant in the ’60s by not joining the anti-war movement, so too will the NRA dangerously risk their, and my, second amendment rights by continuing to see the 1 percent as their benefactors and not their nemesis.
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0915 by Jeff Hess
I think this wouuld be a great way to do a gift exchange at work with books purchased at your local independent book store or for such a book store to collect books for gifts to children and young adults.
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0402 by Jeff Hess
Christopher Hitchens writes:
I am typing this having just had an injection to try to reduce the pain in my arms, hands, and fingers. The chief side effect of this pain is numbness in the extremities, filling me with the not irrational fear that I shall lose the ability to write. Without that ability, I feel sure in advance, my “will to live” would be hugely attenuated. I often grandly say that writing is not just my living and my livelihood but my very life, and it’s true. Almost like the threatened loss of my voice, which is currently being alleviated by some temporary injections into my vocal folds, I feel my personality and identity dissolving as I contemplate dead hands and the loss of the transmission belts that connect me to writing and thinking.
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