Yet another reason why I'll never vote Republican, again.

A thought to keep in mind as you read this - what happens to the already overburdened graduate whose job gets outsourced, and then can't find another because he's deemed "overqualified" for the low skilled, low wage jobs available? Answer: Look up "capitalization of interest" and then note that one can't erase student loan debt by declaring bankruptcy. What will result will be the mathematical equivalent of charging compound interest on a loan that the graduate has been deprived of the means of repaying.

Let's hear it ... for village idiocy. Blog post mentioning the praise of the same, from somebody who ought to know better.

Please, somebody, tell me that this isn't true ...

Telling an unflattering truth.

Watch what's left of a once distinguished architectural legacy be destroyed because our city is run by idiots. Consider this quote: ""Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," Alderman Matlak said. "A lot of people don't want 19th-century buildings.I grew up in a frame house. My bedroom was 8 by 8. People don't want that now." Then - here's a wild idea. Maybe they might try moving into one of the neighborhoods that isn't historic? Which, in Chicago, is almost all of them, now? Speaking as somebody who lives in Chicago, I can report that the difference of opinion between the developers and the preservationists on this is not an honest one; the rate of demolition has not been exaggerated one bit.

Story from the Onion - especially useful as a link when posting to Tribe.net.

The Soviet Realist version of LOLCats

Piece in which the narrator, on meeting a homeless man, comes face to face with his own self-absorption.

Another example of what has become of the rule of law in the United States.

This report comes from London, but the attitudes mentioned can easily be found in the United States as well. Wondering if, in the long run, the Diaspora has a future, at least anywhere in the West or the Middle East, outside of Israel.

Blog post about the joy that is life under "employment at will", and the public response to the problems that arise under that policy.

Watch a mockery being made of due process - husband held in prison for 14 years on a civil contempt charge.

The good news is that those who would have been working on dealing with this problem are mostly now off flipping hamburgers, if they're lucky. Outsourcing in an economy where applicants are refused employment on the basis of long term unemployment - an idea that just keeps on getting better. Link posted to Digg by user Ironeus.

More blasphemy. This time, evidence of a relative absence of wage mobility in the present day US and the rise of a class hierarchy.

Debunking a much fudged statistic