links (because apparently all I have done this week is run a bit and open new tabs):

Have a pic from Soma's OWS profiles:



Daisy - Segregation Begins At Home:

Segregation is not over, it has been taken private and local. If you don't have the money for an expensive membership to the Y, if you don't know someone with an outdoor pool or live in a suburban enclave or apartment complex that provides one for its members, you don't swim.

That leaves out a lot of kids. It certainly would have left ME out.

Kris Ligman - In Which Squaresoft Wrote A Bioware Game:

Most of the narratives I’ve known people to decry as “stupid” or “incomplete” are ones which don’t compromise. I can recall vividly watching A River Runs Through It in a high school film class and watching a classmate burst straight out of her seat in front of the projector and start yelling at the film, so infuriating was the idea that Brad Pitt’s character could die, and off screen, of all things! (Oops, I just spoiled it.) We are programmed through mass media to expect certain archetypes to be treated in certain fashions, and of course the game hero is among the more sacred of these.

Via Capitalism Bad: Tree Pretty: a poem by Marge Piercy, The Low Road.

I <3333 Kiya Nicoll and I want her book, The Traveller’s Guide to the Duat, so for now I am linking the promo giveaway page. :D This interview says a bit more about it, too.

From The New Yorker, the story's in the tagline: "Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless."

If you're after numbers to wave at stupid people, please read Calculated Risk's comparisons of public and private sector employment recovery under the Bush administration and under the Obama administration.

From the 'stuff you already knew' files, Haaretz on the psychological poverty trap.