* In Landmark Decision, U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team. So the Redskins will be forced by lost revenue and unrestrained anti-Redskins bootlegs to change their name — at which time bitter Redskins dead-enders will be able to sell each other Redskins-branded merchandise in protest…
* We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work.
* That plan goes something like this: maximize constrained educational choices that are a function of labor market changes; commodify inequality by organizing for the highest need students; extract guaranteed funds from public coffers; call it access; wash and repeat.
* Guernica‘s special issue on class, including a report on adjuncts.
* BREAKING: The U.S. Has the Most Expensive, Least Effective Health Care System. BREAKING: Guns kill children. BREAKING: The American prison system is a nightmare. BREAKING: Capitalism is insanely corrupt. BREAKING: Uber is a scam.
* Self-plagiarism is a really weird concept to pin down.
* When innocent people are exonerated after wrongfully spending time in prison, some states pay money to the accused for their trouble. As data from NPR and the Innocence Project show, those payouts are often despicably low.
* This Is How Much More States Spend On Prisoners Than On Students.
* Does the alternatives-to-incarceration industry profit from injustice?
* The economics of nuclear war.
* Things instructional staff aren’t paid enough to do.
* The logic on display here shows the toxic self-justifying nature of American military adventures. If a war accomplishes its stated objectives, that goes to show that war is great. If a war fails to accomplish its stated objectives — as the Bush-era surge miserably failed to produce a durable political settlement in Iraq — then that simply proves that more war was called for.
* And they say America’s best years are behind it.
* Münchausen syndrome by proxy, mommy blog edition.
* The horror of postpartum psychosis.
* Against the simplicity of “born this way.”
* It seems that when you want to make a woman into a hero, you hurt her first. When you want to make a man into a hero, you hurt… also a woman first.
* Louie. Louie. Lou-eeeee. Louie. Louie. Lou-iiiiiii.
* You can kill anyone with your car, as long as you don’t really mean it.
* Walker said it was important to have a smooth-running highway system to avoid gridlock “that would choke off the ability of businesses to come in and out of Milwaukee.” “I think the last thing you want to do is have employers look to go bypass the city of Milwaukee when they’re talking about jobs and commerce here,” he said. “So you’ve got to make sure there’s a good transportation system.” And just wait until he finds out human beings use roads too!
* My brilliant wife has a poem in TAB.
* How to Catch a Chess Cheater.
* Elon Musk “Hopeful” First People Can Be Taken To Mars in 10-12 Years.
* And even Colbert Report writers have to form tech startups now.
