Sunday Links
By - As a general rule, if you frequently assert that you’re a Nice Guy, you’re not. It’s like Richard Cohen asserting that he’s funny. (While we’re going back in time, might as well link to Tedra’s classic typology too.)
- I’m not sure what people who question the NCAA’s scholarship policies are worried about. I mean, as long as the NCAA continues to express the noblest ideals of amateurism by ensuring that players are not permitted to share in profits, STUDENT athletes are surely getting the education they deserve, right?
- I will have more on the disturbing New York stop-and-frisk data this week. In other New York civil liberties news, the War On (Some Classes of People Who Use Some) Drugs serves as an excuse to limit the exclusionary rule once again.
- Relatedly, asset forfeiture laws used to confiscate bail money. The bail money that, by definition, is being raised for people haven’t been convicted of the underlying offense.
- Innovations in grading.
- Birtherism: an effective rube-running technique.
- Kudos are indeed in order to Johnny Marr for the new Smiths remasters, a desperately-needed improvement over the dim first digital ones, and (at least at the beginning) were collectively available cheap. They’re unquestionably the most useful thing Marr has done since he broke up the band to…record an album with Mick Taylor or whatever it was.