Brought to you this week on an iPad, since my laptop is undergoing hard drive replacement surgery. We are hopeful for a swift recovery.
Want to know what the real story is behind the Wisconsin union-busting movement? Ezra Klein has the scoop.
I love it when bigots don’t know how the internees work.
And I also love it religious bigots don’t know what their own holy books say.
Geoff Dyer is having trouble reading. I can relate because I was there a few years ago.
The Disunion series in the NY Times is essential reading about the Civil War. This installment is about William Webb, a slave who did a lot of organizing among the slave population before the war began. These stories are important because they emphasize that slaves were not just helpless bystanders in the debate over slavery, but were active participants.
