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Brian Spears
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
J Smooth of Ill Doctrine breaks down the big thing Occupy Wall Street is doing–identifying the ringers in the 3-card monte game. Seems like the efforts to demonize Occupy Wall Street are, for the moment, failing. So is the attempt…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Naomi Wolf tells her story of her arrest at Occupy Wall Street. If you work for NPR, don’t speak publicly about your politics, or you’ll lose your job. So much for the notion that NPR is some bastion of liberal…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Remember that NYPD deputy commander who pepper-sprayed protesters for apparently no reason at all? He’s facing disciplinary charges which could result in him losing 10 whole vacation days. The Guardian had a debate/conversation between protesters from Occupy Wall Street, London…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
The Occupy Wall Street protests enter their second month, and have started to garner a lot more media attention. One of the people responsible for that attention is NYPD Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona, who spun a protestor around and punched…
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Saturday Morning Links
Saturdays may belong to me, but today I belong to Occupy Des Moines. We’re marching to the Wells Fargo building this morning, located at 666 Walnut St. Not making that up. Feel free to post your own occupation stories in…
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An #OWS Roundup
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg informed the protesters in Zuccotti Park that they would be evicted this morning at 7 AM so the park could be cleaned. The protesters responded by sending out a call for cleaning supplies…
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Want Some Transtomer?
Tomas Transtomer, that is, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Blackbird, an online journal, has his 1996 book, Sorrow Gondola, available on their website at the link above. The translations are by Patty Crane, and there’s a bunch of…
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What’s the Matter With (Topeka) Kansas?
Seriously, what the hell? Via Feministing, this is one of the more disturbing stories I’ve come across. Topeka County said is couldn’t afford to prosecute domestic battery cases, so they stopped and dumped it on the city of Topeka. The…
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Science Saturday
Forensic DNA databases could make the problem of racial disparities in law enforcement even worse. First images of interstellar turbulence. Pass the dramamine. I really like this take on the faster-than-light neutrino story because it illustrates the lengths these scientists…
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Saturday Morning Links
Cider hangovers are nothing to joke about. Just thought you should know. A suggestion for intelligence agencies everywhere: next time you get the brilliant idea to use vaccination programs as a front for anything, no matter how loathsome the target…
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Science Saturday
The Ig Nobel Prizes have been awarded, and they’re awesome as usual. Say goodbye to Tevatron. New data on Mercury, and some great images too. Some background on the Italian trial of six geophysicists surrounding the Aquila earthquake of 2009.…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’ve begun the task of getting actual winter clothes for the first time in my life. It’s funny to watch, I imagine. I walk into a store and don’t even recognize what some of these things are. Pity me. The…