The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Extremism normalized
How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/extremism_normalized/
Regular reader(s) will no doubt be well aware of my thoughts on our police state. I haven’t had a …
Welcome to post-legal America
How the Magna Carta became a minor carta
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/noam_chomsky_on_post_legal_america/
In general I am not one to believe in conspiracy theories. That attitude has evolved over my life, though. As a child I was intensely into UFOs, …
Food In Smaller Pieces May Help Control Weight
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247693.php
This is a really interesting study to me. Just like the power of the placebo, humans actually have a tremendous ability to convince themselves of things (why I think our …
Rules of American justice
An American banker is shocked to encounter accountability for his acts in Britain because the U.S. provides none
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/09/rules_of_american_justice/
This is apropos my earlier post, so I figured a bit of repetition might help (though I …
Evolution and Our Inner Conflict
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/evolution-and-our-inner-conflict/
Though the initial focus of the article is discussing the dynamic between selfishness and altruism, what I found most interesting was the idea of group evolution. Reading the wiki page it seems clear that …
Why is ‘having it all’ just a women’s issue?
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/25/opinion/coontz-women-have-it-all/index.html
I agree strongly with this author. Why is it that “It’s awfully tough to balance work and family — for a woman.”, why can’t it be a challenge for men …
I love it when I come across an article that exposes me to new concepts. I was interested in economics in graduate school and might have pursued it if I hadn’t had a firm idea of what I wanted to …
Class decides everything
Income increasingly dictates every aspect of our lives, from our politics to our health to our happiness
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/24/class_decides_everything/
What is really interesting to me is the realization (duh!) that I am in an upper class. Though I …
The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia
How America’s biggest banks took part in a nationwide bid-rigging conspiracy – until they were caught on tape
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620
This is a long article, I know, but it is worth reading to …
What Part of ‘Austerity Isn’t Working’ Don’t People Get?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/what-part-of-austerity-isnt-working-dont-people-get-20120617
This ties back well with my post on “Why the rich don’t care about a robust economy“, the people most clamoring for austerity are the people least likely …