Morning Readings

• Driftglass has an illustrative clip from Save the Tiger.  Also foreshadowing.
• Dean Baker at AlterNet disputes economists' allegation that high-tech is reducing the middle class.  (The second page seems to be missing right now, as is any way to comment.  Fixed.)
• Also at AlterNet, Sara Robinson suggests that corporate rule is mimicking the Soviet Union model.

  It's not just that the corporations have taken control over our government (though that's awful enough). It's also that they've taken control over -- and put serious limits on -- our choices regarding what we buy, where we work, how we live, and what rights we have. Our futures are increasingly no longer our own: more and more decisions, large and small, that determine the quality of our lives are being made by Politburo apparatchiks at a Supreme Corporate Soviet somewhere far distant from us. Only now, those apparatchiks are PR and marketing executives, titans of corporate finance, lobbyists for multinationals, and bean-counting managers trying to increase profits at the expense of our freedom.

• Charles II at Mercury Rising is doing a "No One Will Care..." group of posts; the current one is about elite impunity and how that relates to the Catholic Church's and Penn State's scandals.
• Shock!  Horror!  Married couple caught kissing in public!  (Link via another link at skippy.)