On In Praise of NaNoWriMo
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On Flicked Off: "Capitalism: A Love Story"
Remember this? So. Much. Love.
http://gawker.com/tag/walkout/popular/
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On The Great Philosophers, With Sarah Palin
Is this a real quote? Edit/find for “doing nothing†in the Aristotle texts at http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html turns up nothing.
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On The Education Of Sarah Palin
In retrospect, the whole "dialogues" thing was probably a clue:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/09/palin-plato/
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On The Education Of Sarah Palin
This is worse than faux-quoting Kennedy. Now she is just balls-out making stuff up and attributing it to famous smart people she has heard of. Next tweet: "The great ones always fish and hunt. And lie. -- Shakespeare."
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On The Education Of Sarah Palin
Is this a real quote? A quick search for "hour of play" under the Plato section at http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index.html doesn't turn up anything.
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On The End of the 00s: How To Lose Your Idealism In Under Ten Years, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Totally agree that leggings will not bring the revolution. But. The dispute I think you’re describing was the result of a serious and important debate about the benefits of short-term versus long-term union growth. It played out badly, in large part because Andy Stern tried to go forward without building consensus among the rank and file or local staff. This is a becoming a consistent weakness of Stern’s. (Remember the early Justice for Janitors campaigns? Different times.) But that’s no reason to throw up your hands. Disagreements among workers and (not unrelatedly) among the leaders who represent them will of course lead to a “power struggle,†with all the unpleasantness it entails. If you shrink from that kind of unpleasantness, leggings are all you’ll have left --- leggings and the fatalistic witticisms of Trustafarian Marxists.