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> bad men
The Book of Jobs
Technical difficulties at Reuters have temporarily erased my archives from the internet, so I am posting some of my hits here. From February 2012
> the philistinistocracy
The Unconstitutional 40 Years War On College Students
Lobbyists' trillion dollar revenge on nerds
Originally posted at Reuters
You have probably mentally catalogued the student loan crisis alongside all the other looming trillion dollar crises busy imperiling civilization for the purpose of enriching the already rich. But it is different from those crises in a few significant ways, starting with the fact that the entire student loan business is arguably unconstitutional.
> profiles in thought leadership
Ludwig Von Mises and the "I hate kids" theory of child labor
Yesterday I wrote a post about neoliberalism as a niche marketing strategy in which Ludwig von Mises was the public intellectual positioned to appeal to your fascist granddad. He made Ayn Rand cry in public, he served on the editorial board of the John Birch Society magazine, and he stormed out of rooms of his fellow fascists denouncing Milton Friedman as a closet Bolshevik.
> tinted moisturizer is a right wing conspiracy of the day
The Incredible Niche Marketing Machine of Neoliberalism
If consumer boycotts are the opiates of the brainwashed, boycotting chicken strips is sort of like shooting up Tylenol
> the philistinistocracy
Vyvanse Billionaire Randal Kirk and the 'Speed Doctrine' of Higher Education
“Sustainability science. Please!” Yes Virginia, this is your education on amphetamine riches…> haternomics
Confessions Of An Economic Hate Crime
If the financial crisis is a hate crime with an ever-expanding class of victims, the Beltway bro-taucracy is the neoliberal neo-Klan
> higher education
mann and corporate person at uva
Was climate science the real reason the strategic dynamos on the UVA board wanted president Teresa Sullivan gone? The fund manager behind the coup is "very, very angry" that I would even ask…
> higher education
Getting Warmer…
Did Old Dominion Resources U. Allow A 'War on Coal' clause in that endowment stocking?
Part 2 of Mann & Corporate Person At UVA
> higher education
The Nonsense Invasion of Knowledge, From Elizabeth Warren to Climategate
Virginia has long been at the forefront of letting money in politics turn educational institutions into ignorance mills.
Part 3 of 'Mann & Corporate Person At UVA' (Here's Part 2.)
> from the archive
10 Days In The Life Of A Tampon
From the May 7, 2008 Jezebel
It was a beautiful week and a beautiful weekend. It was verdant, sun-dappled, horticulture-redolent, exfoliated, affluent, groomed, merry, relaxed, pressed, aspirational, and at its beginning, even fragrant. (That would change.) It was all so dizzyingly gorgeous I could feel a low-grade panic trickle through my chest. But it was all good.
"Moe," my friend John asked. "Do you want half a Vicodin?"
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> profiles in thought leadership
Correction: Daniel Altman no longer directs Thought Leadership at Dalberg Global Development Advisors…
Somewhere way in the recesses of my mind before I kicked off my Sunday hostess gig at the FireDogLake with the below takedownette of Daniel Altman's new ebookella, an odd little half-flicker of a brainwave caused me to suspect that a younger Moe in the throes of a commensurate stretch of sexual deprivation might have at least worked a bit in the process of trashing his book.
> reason to live of the day
At least Jemima Kirke understands why American Workers Have No Rights
Hollywood hates labor, and hates shows about labor worse than any other thing. And that’s why you won’t be seeing another Roseanne anytime soon. Instead, all over the tube, you will find enterprising, overmedicated, painted-up, capitalist whores claiming to be housewives. But I’m not bitter.
—Roseanne
> tinted moisturizer is a right wing conspiracy of the day
Meet Father Bob Sirico, Gay Sex Slave Auctioneer Turned Right Wing Catholic Zealot
If you're going to cough up an ungodly percentage of your paycheck on Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, you ought to at least be informed where your forty two hard earned dollars are going: to radical right wing plutocrat shills like this guy!
> tinted moisturizer is a right wing conspiracy of the day
Tinted Moisturizer Is A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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