Saturday Morning Links
It’s day two of National Poetry Month, which means it’s day 2 of our poem-a-day project. Today’s poem is from Sandy Longhorn, and you can get to all Rumpus Original Poems here.
The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is now leaking highly radioactive water into the ocean.
This is insane–in Indonesia, Citibank debt collectors are arrested for killing a customer over a debt.
Yesterday’s Disunion column in the NY Times described April Fools Day pranks during the Civil War era. I copied that link from the Facebook page, so I’m hoping it will get you around the paywall.
I’ve never read anything (that I know of) by Manning Marable, who died yesterday, but given the praise of his work coming from a number of people I respect, I think I will be soon.
Scott Horton breaks down the latest loathsome decision from the US Supreme Court. Dahlia Lithwick further destroys it.
April 2nd, 2011 at 8:57 am
Love the links, raise my eyebrows at the paywall end-around. Surely this is in violation of Link Ethics 101?
April 2nd, 2011 at 10:23 am
I don’t think so. The NY Times set the rules, and one of those rules is that any link that comes via Facebook or Twitter doesn’t count against your 20 free stories per month. That’s the link I’m trying to offer. And if that one doesn’t work, I’ll start linking to stories via my own twitter feed and direct people to my tweets to get to the Times.