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The UVA Aftermath

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On March 14, 2013
As you may remember, last summer, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia attempted to push out UVA President Teresa Sullivan, basically because the corporate hacks on the Board didn't think Sullivan was committed enough to leveraging synergies and proactive leaderocracy and such....

Agricultural Guestworkers

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On March 14, 2013

The labor historian Cindy Hahamovitch on the already terrible agricultural guestworker program that agricultural interests want to deregulate even more in a new immigration bill. The guestworker program continued but.

Fish Stories

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On March 13, 2013

The Center for Investigative Reporting has an outstanding animation up about fish politics and who controls the fisheries. Essentially, the catch shares system for regulating fisheries has turned into creating.

Worst Person in the World

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On March 13, 2013
Erick Erickson for this lovely tweet: That lefties are accusing the new pope of handing over lefties to the right wing junta for execution makes me adore the new pope. Says just about all you need to know about the hate driving much of the...

Food Faddism

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On March 12, 2013

If there's one thing Americans love, it's food faddism. The history of full of weirdness, from John Harvey Kellogg's yogurt enemas that placed yogurt cultures in our mouths and rectums.

Anarchism: Illegal in Oklahoma

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On March 11, 2013
Discovered by @megmantis, this Oklahoma law, enacted in 1919 and amended as late as 1999: Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly display any red flag or other emblem or banner, indicating disloyalty to the Government of...

Brogressives

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On March 11, 2013

Adele Stan with a serious takedown of the obnoxious, overrated, and generally awful David Sirota, who attacked her with a typically aggressive, sloppy, and falsifying column when she questioned progressives.

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