The Chilean student demonstrations are really amazing—at least 527 or possibly 552 or could be 800 people all told were arrested yesterday (often, let's say, not nicely), and students occupied state TV offices to get the message out in a traditional fashion. The higher education system is now predominately a group of for-profit businesses, and the students are organizing on the principle that going permanently into debt for education is not a way a country's education system should be run. How about that. Today, student organizers are turning down a vague proposal from the government that increases some public funding. Good!

I personally slept in an extra 33 minutes yesterday, one minute in observance of each Chilean miner, but everyone pays tribute in his own meaningful way, like the Pixies' 33-song show in Santiago the other night. Which, you know: also? An awesome, awesome show. Here's the best four videos we can find from their last few dates in South America.

Look, captioning errors happen. It's understandable. Particularly in this day and age, when the frequent use of slideshows and galleries tends to introduce a number of extra variables which increase the opportunity for misaligned photos and descriptors. But you know what? This is still pretty great. [Via]

By way of discussing Tony Manero, the 2008 Chilean film just released here to some rapturous reviews, National Review's John Derbyshire offers historical perspective (the picture is set in 1978, four years after the coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power).

Here, allegedly, is Willie Nelson's recipe for white bean chili. I am of the camp that believes beans have no place in chili, but you are all old enough to make your own decisions on the matter, so have at it. [Via]

Daniel Henninger'sWall Street Journal op-ed column today is mind-boggling. He comes out hard, so it's easy to summarize: "It needs to be said. The rescue of the Chilean miners is a smashing victory for free-market capitalism." His point is that the drill and the drill rig used for the miner rescue were developed by two smallish companies, right here in America. Other bits of technology were also created by companies! The free market innovates! Companies make things! So capitalism saved miners. Pretty much everything about this column is utterly undone by the facts.

Why was the damage from this weekend's earthquake in Chile so much less destructive than the recent tragedy in Haiti? The Wall Street Journal editorial page has a theory!

"Chilean President Sebastián Piñera has apologized for writing the words 'Deutschland Über Alles,' a phrase frowned on in Germany because of its association with the Nazi era, into the official guest book of German President Christian Wulff during a visit to Berlin last week." —Pinera, who was visiting to thank the German government for its help in rescuing the trapped miners earlier this month, said he didn't realize the phrase was "linked to that country's dark past." We know what he was thinking: "I hate signing guest books, I never know what to say. There's so much pressure to be funny or clever or whatever. I was like, Germany, [...]