Monday, Monday (Ba-daaa, ba-da-da-da)

• Stuff invented in Oakland, CA (and stuff that wasn't):  The Wave (sorry, metsgrrl), the fortune cookie folding machine, fantasy football, et al.
• Glenn Smith at Firedoglake asks the question that's been bugging me for years:  "Why the Fear and Loathing?"  (via The Sideshow)

  I don’t buy the standard line that the anger is all about economic worries. I have economic worries, too, and they haven’t led me to hate brown people or black people or city people or educated people.

• Via Making Light, the BNP brought low in part by marmite.
• The dangers and lesson of "put[ting] two fingers up once too often."  (via Oursin at Dreamwidth.)

  Of course, at 49, I am not the same person I was at 16. The older you get, the more you realise that the complexities of life are unknown territory to the teenage mind: this is not a defence, more a belated plea of mitigation. The past may be another country, where things were done differently, yet even at 16, I knew I had done something terribly wrong.

  (I do know how to blurb, I do I do!)
  
• Ta-Nehisi Coates on "The Cops We Deserve."  He has examples.  (I'd just like to say that I think I deserve better cops than that, and probably so do you.)
• ETA:  Orcinus is back from the grave suspended animation!