Broke the Streak!

Happy Bastille Day!  [ETA:  Via Making Light, Jacobin's explanation of the French Revolution and why Bastille Day is important.]

• Why the plane fares have gone up.  (They swear it's not the consolidations.  The ghosts of the pirates of Standard Oil are shaking their heads ruefully.)
• Driftglass goes full Driftglass.
  

  The problem, of course, is that a long time ago the fairy tale stopped being convenient narrative hammock in which lazy media grifters could repose in comfort and instead became their basic input/output system. The thing that boots them up every day. The thing that tells them who they are, what their function is and how they should treat all the other devices to whom they are attached.

• Greece.  Greece.  Greece.
• Avedon's Sideshow features a good bunch of links for further exploration.