Here’s my NY Times pay-wall workaround. After I’ve used up my 20 free articles, I find a headline I of an article I want to read, right click on the link and copy it, tweet it, and then click the link on Twitter. In the event I use a NY Times article in my link roundups here, I’ll actually be linking to the tweet on the Rumpus Poetry account and you can click the link from there.
So the government is still open, at least for the moment, but this story isn’t going away for long–the debt limit will have to go up sometime this summer, and we’ll see all this again.
Kevin Spacey channels Winston Churchill on the importance of the arts.
What if your favorite album was a book?
How big a factor was the 1860 census on the start of the Civil War? Pretty big, actually.
I don’t like this extra credit idea. I do like the student who was swift enough to compare it to the selling of papal indulgences. Nice comparison!
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Way to support a publication you obviously value, B.
Take shots at me if you want, but I’m playing by the rules the Times set up. They didn’t have to exempt Facebook or Twitter links, but they did.
A word from the billion under privileged others, who didn’t get a 41K, inheritance, or adequate pension, whose ‘retirement’ (if they were fortunate enough to have a job for that long), and social security (thanks to Roosevelt) barely provide for internet access above shelter and food needs, and the billion others on this endangered planet whose news source is their hunger – It costs to have high principles. Think outside the box of your own good fortune.
First, I want to make it clear that I enjoy this site, and your posts in particular, Brian. So this isn’t a polemic. Now then, you wrote in an earlier post, “It’s not that I don’t think the Times shouldn’t charge–it’s that I can’t afford the subscription rates for the amount I use their services.”
Can you see how specious this reasoning is? You’re using services without paying for them. There are many words for this, and few of them are neutral. Pretending that you’re actually playing by “the rules” is just that: A pretense.
Again, I enjoy your work. I disagree with your stance.
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