Sunday Reading

Bint Battuta:

Jacob Remes:

Baskin-Robbins and the Walmartization of ice cream.
Who's been paying Pat McCrory, the Republican candidate for North Carolina governor? It's anyone's guess.
One of these things is not like the others.
Rev. Lillian F. Daniel on the the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature annual conference and the Hyatt boycott.
"The question is, 'Can you be Catholic and have a questioning mind?'," the president of the umbrella group representing 80% of US nuns asks Terry Gross. Then, a few days later, the bishop in charge of attacking American nuns responds with breathtaking intellectual dishonesty.
Relatively mundane extreme weather--more, hotter days, extremes of either too little precipitation or bigger rain storms--is becoming increasingly common. How do those things become disasters? When our infrastructure can't deal with our new climate.
“An analysis from the victims’ perspective takes you beyond studying what equipment or systems broke down. . . . Instead, we begin to consider the suffering brought upon local communities and whether that suffering could have been minimized.”
A new report on the Fukushima evacuation shows why evacuations are always dangerous--sometimes, even more dangerous than the thing people are fleeing.
A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
Dave Zirin on the NCAA's sanctions against Penn State.
The problem isn't too much technology; it's too much work.
Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson on expanding the 13th Amendment.
Matt Sledge on why Amazon's "Career Choice" program--what Sarah Jaffe called "a corporate-influenced form of career tracking"--is corporate public relations bullshit, not anything that will have a meaningful effect on anyone's life.
NYPD can't take criticism, censors legal mural

Frank Pasquale:

US Bank Protip: Sabotage compliance officers to ensure job security
Lots of the derivatives biz is tax driven.
Did Barclays cheat petro-states?
NYT "journalist" is "tremendously grateful" to those he covers.
Bartmarx: feudal chic.
2 cheers for dispossession.
Sarbox road blocks.
"While it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money."
Finance's Pangloss keeps the faith, however large the cash hoard grows.

Jane Hu:

Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question
Colson Whitehead's Rules for Writing *
My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes *
The Art of the Profile with David Remnick of ‘The New Yorker’ *
questions for poets (2) *
The Birth of Cute *
Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be *
Jennifer Doyle on Fire in the Belly *
Reddit’s “How Have You Cheated The System?” Thread *
A Good Married Dude *
Wet Hot African Summer *
A media glasnost for Zimbabwe coverage? *
More than Little Mogadishu *
The Long-Term Impacts of the 2009 Honduran Coup *
Legacy of Honduran Coup Still Threatens Democracy In Latin America *
“Would Winston Smith and Josef K. please return to the gate? Your flight is ready to depart.” *
Ayn Rand’s Lord of the Rings *
NYPD Used Force On Occupy Protests ‘Without Apparent Need Or Justification’ 130 Times. *
All Comics, #nodads *
Romney in London: Never Mind The Olympics, Here’s the Embarrassment Iraq after the Americans *
Good MOOC's, Bad MOOC's *
On Downton Abbey *
The curious staying power of the cliffhanger. *

Oh, and have you checked out Gerry Canavan's list this week?