Intellectual consent decree

Bank of England and others saying, “There never was such a thing as neoliberalism, and we’re not going to do it anymore.”

Thanx to Metafilter

It’s a beginning

British shopping chain will stop playing music in its stores. I favor a law banning recorded music in stores and restaurants, and I would probably feel that way even if I weren’t almost as hearing challenged as a post.

Thanx to andrewducker

Debt

How the Nixon Gang peddled our ass to the Saudis

Thanx to andrewducker

Innovators

The woman who gave us the paper bag

Thanx to andrewducker

Getting a head

"Ursula K. Le Guin broadens our scope: 'I don't know if Thog is interested in opening his Masterclass to anyone outside science fiction, let alone the writer some people call The Master. But I know he likes the more violent anatomical disjunctions and peculiarities, and humbly offer him this one, from Chapter 30 of The Awkward Age by Henry James (p.301 in the 1981 Penguin Modern Classics edition): "'But we have, you know, as Van says, gone to pieces' she went on, twisting her pretty head and tossing it back over her shoulder to an auditor of whose approach to her from behind, though it was impossible she should have seen him, she had visibly, within a minute, become aware." I can't tell you the joy this passage gave me, as by page 301 I was in danger of tossing the book back over my shoulder into a fireplace of whose location, though I might be uncertain, I had become willing to imagine, as offering me a final, if less than admirable, escape from endless thickets of clauses introducing incomprehensibly allusive conversations carried on by disagreeable people, among whom the owner of the pretty head is, perhaps, the most tedious.'"

Thanx to Ansible

It makes me think of alien Harlem Globetrotters.

Pitchforks

.01 percenter talks sense.

Thanx to twistedchick