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ANGRY PAKISTANI INVESTORS RIOT OUTSIDE KARACHI STOCK EXHANGE (WITH PHOTOS)
Financial crises manifest slightly more directly in the Third World.
(via bigpicture.typepad.com)
TA-NEHISI COATES: THE TRAGEDY OF JESSE JACKSON
A slightly more nuanced take than Jarret's from last week.
(via tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com)
REQUIRED READING: MCCAIN'S BAD WEEK
About the horrendous gaffes, missteps, and flip-flops that have dogged McCain this week.
(via www.huffingtonpost.com)
THE UNTOLD DELIGHTS OF DULUTH
Read all of this. JUST GO READ ALL OF THIS. It is worth it.
I was convinced that the greatest calamity that ever befell the benighted nations of the ancient world was in their having passed away without a knowledge of the actual existence of Duluth; that their fabled Atlantis, never seen save by the hallowed vision of inspired poesy, was, in fact, but another name for Duluth; that the golden orchard of the Hesperides was but a poetical synonym for the beer-gardens in the vicinity of Duluth. I was certain that Herodotus had died a miserable death because in all his travels and with all his geographical research he had never heard of Duluth. I knew that if the immortal spirit of Homer could look down from another heaven than that created by his own celestial genius upon the long lines of pilgrims from every nation of the earth to the gushing fountain of poesy opened by the touch of his magic wand, if he could be permitted to behold the vast assemblage of grand and glorious productions of the lyric art called into being by his own inspired strains, he would weep tears of bitter anguish that instead of lavishing all the stores of his mighty genius upon the fall of Ilion it had not been his more blessed lot to crystallize in deathless song the rising glories of Duluth. Yet, sir, had it not been for this map, kindly furnished me by the Legislature of Minnesota, I might have gone down to my obscure and humble grave in an agony of despair, because I could nowhere find Duluth. Had such been my melancholy fate, I have no doubt that with the last feeble pulsation of my breaking heart, with the last faint exhalation of my fleeting breath, I should have whispered, “Where is Duluth?”
(via www.americanheritage.com)
FORMER A.A. CEO CALLS FOR RE-REGULATION OF AIRLINES
Read all of this. I don't sympathize with Crandall's call for less labor rights (obviously) or much of his argument, which seems to boil down to "Please, government, increase our profit margins!" but his recognition that unfettered competition in his industry doesn't help anyone is a significant thing, and a big slap in the face to conservative free-market ideology. Also, his points about how regulating more direct flights would increase efficiency AND lower carbon emissions is interesting.
(via startelegram.typepad.com)
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SCHOOL VOUCHER ADVOCACY
An important article detailing how the conservative fervor for "school choice" has suddenly vanished in the last couple years, in the face of both right-wing organizational difficulties and the increasingly obvious fact that voucher programs don't work.
The conclusions of this article are consistent with the impression I got in Politics of American Education fall semester -- although this author is much more willing to call a spade a spade than Professor Peterson, who was evenhanded to a fault in his teaching.
(via www.washingtonmonthly.com)
MICAH SIFRY ON OBAMA & GRASSROOTS INSURGENT ORGANIZING
An important article, which situates the Obama campaign in a context of Jackson, Perot, and Dean. Read this and you'll understand the significance of this nomination a lot better.
(via www.techpresident.com)
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SUV
A detailed and illuminating history of the SUV, and its role in the auto market, by David Olive (the best writer at the Toronto Star, criminally unknown). Read this.
(via www.thestar.com)
ECONOMICS & THE MINIMUM WAGE
A long and detailed economic argument for the minimum wage (framed contra Megan McArdle, which may be an unfairly easy target). This has happened before but it's worth seeing every time.
(via crookedtimber.org)
- NYTimes to McCain: Dude, You Can't Write
- Kick-ass
- Sunday Screening
- The World's Most Amazing Campaign Site
- Deregulation solves everything. Deregulation is magic. Deregulation is your father
- McCain Blooper Reel: Now Who's a Flip-Flopper? Edition
- McCain and school choice
- The Hollywood Reporter
- McCain Blooper Reel: Inaugural Edition
- Warnings of Alleged Liberal Leanings - Erroneous (or, WALL-E)
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