"Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason."
– ?

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
– Milton Friedman

Slavoj Žižek and Fredric Jameson on The Wire

“For Žižek, on the other hand, The Wire is ultimately not utopian or revolutionary enough. (It may be worth noting that Žižek considers Jimmy McNulty’s crazy fake-serial-killer scheme in Season 5 “totally ethical and brilliant.”)”

Nature, nurture and liberal values

“Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses”

Why Is San Francisco So Liberal?

“It all began with a few sailors and a bottle of booze.”

NexNote: I love ‘Frisco.

A Literary Exploration of How Power Corrupts

“This story is ‘about how the worlds of journalism and fiction writing are not as unimaginably different as one might think.’”

LA and Occupy LA Agree: It's Time to End Corporate Personhood

NexNote: FINALLY! I held an ACLE back in college on the corporation and how it’s a “dysfunctional person.” Thank you Occupy!

“What’s the issue that unites the occupiers and the city they’re occupying? Getting corporate money out of politics.”

Access to wildlife should be a right, not a privilege

“No government has recognised access to nature as a right, yet it can and does deliver benefits to everyone in society. The Scottish Government is consulting on a rights of children and young people bill, to establish within law the responsibility of Scottish ministers to have “due regard” to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.The Convention – signed by every member of the UN except Somalia and the US – outlines children’s fundamental rights such as the right to an identity, the right to life and development, and the right to be heard.”