It Must Be Monday--There Are Seagulls and Flying Monkeys Up There

Or alternately, A Farrago of Foolishness.

• giandujakiss on Dreamwidth linked to an article on American economic security and followed up with a brief paragraph on policy choices.  Yes, those folks making these policies are really out to get you.
• At last!  Scorekeeping for sex scandals!  For when you've run out of sports statistics but the bar is still open!  (Katie Halper article originally at Salon, reprinted by AlterNet.)
• How marijuana got to be illegal.
• Noam Chomsky (AlterNet) video on the security state.
• Scholar has to explain to Fox Newsie how scholarship works (he's Muslim and wrote a book about Jesus Christ with, y'know, research and footnotes.  That's the same video at both links, in case one is inaccessible).  Maybe the anchors at Fox aren't required to take college courses outside of the communications curriculum in order to get jobs there, but I would have thought that a broader selection of courses, some of which involve research, was needed to graduate.
• Conservatives and unenforceable "sodomy" laws, and why they want to bring those laws back.

  Reinstating and enforcing old, unconstitutional sodomy laws won’t turn back time to the 1950s or beyond. But that’s essentially why conservatives think they need them — to hold back the tide of history.

  Terrance Heath also throws in a little history lesson.

I should probably go to the ballgame on Wednesday