http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5im0NOE-6bmxQdabxKyEWkvRaKOLAD8S02M782Read more... )

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-jena25_websep25,0,4477421.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

HOUSTON - No sooner did tens of thousands of African-American demonstrators depart the racially tense town ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/21/AR2007092102347.html

The U.S. government is collecting electronic records on the travel habits of millions of Americans who fly, drive or take cruises abroad, retaining ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewekVjO52M&mode=related&search=Read more... )

http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=861

Designer Babies and the Pro-Choice Movement ( Read more... )

Ahahahaha, I'm gonna be a TA this term. The course is "Intro to Social Science", I have 20-25 students. It's gonna be mindblowing because 1) I have no idea what I'm doing, 2) it'll be hard to resist the temptation to totally wield my power over the kinds of fools I used to hate on when I was an undergrad. I'm actually kind of nervous about it... ( Read more... )

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/070906niles/

Today, the United States Justice Department came out against "Net Neutrality," endorsing the concept of allowing telecom companies to decide which websites and online services it will allow its customers to access, and at what ( Read more... )

Deep in paper-writing mode, but I just had to post this:

http://www.motherjones.com/cgi-bin/print_article.pl?url=http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/09/black-ops-jungle.html

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So, I'm at LAX waiting for my flight to Melbourne. This is easily the worst airport I've ever been in, but it's also hilarious and amusing because it's so chaotic (although nothing beats the airport in Phoenix for sheer awesomeness in terms of the stores they had...I'm still not over "The Indigenous Store ( Read more... )

"The main reason for the contemporary evasion of Arendt’s critique of careerism, however, is that addressing it would force a confrontation with the dominant ethos of our time. In an era when capitalism is assumed to be not only efficient but also a source of freedom, the careerist seems like the agent of an easy-going tolerance and pluralism. ( Read more... )