I'm on the road, but that's no reason to give you some links. Science:
The worst idea this side of "Youre Not Helping".
An unpersuasive approach
The Neanderthal Romeo and Human Juliet hypothesis
Other:
Main Street America and getting to be middle class (one more way income inequality destroys the middle class)
If you don't like being called teabaggers....
What Was the Hipster?
For Thee But Not For Me
Blogger Meeting with Obama: A Missed Opportunity
"they are purging nonperforming students at an alarming rate"
More like this
A dirty secret of charter school 'success' is that they typically transfer their poorly-performing students the students they fail to educate to public schools.
One of the goals of several of the federal interventions was to keep subprime loans high.
Timothy Burke has a typically excellent post about the problems with academic tenure.