Putting Stuff Together

• Thought-experiment re:  SOPA/PIPA, in case you missed yesterday.
• Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast tackles "The Myth of 'Hard Work'," or that social mobility stuff is quietly drying up and blowing away.
• Going further on that topic, Jurassicpork on, well, the American psyche, and what we had in common with high points in the Middle Ages.  (Avedon has mentioned this often.)
• Driftglass discusses the current reality of the working class and the current unreality of New York Times pundits:

  Consider that...
  
  ...if you want to get a low-wage job a banging out dents and welding cracks on public transit buses, you will first have to pee in a cup.

  (There's more. Because David Brooks lives in Petit Trianon in 1788, don'tchaknow.)