More Coffee Needed

• Confession time (Crooks & Liars).
  
  Again with the allegation of "voter fraud." There are of course no undocumented citizens; no Americans who change their names, move to other addresses or cities, lose paperwork in disasters; no residents who cannot access their birth records. None of these circumstances would ever inconvenience Republicans, right?  Where are the folks who object to "Papers, please" rules, or are they too busy with anti-abortion activity?  Where's the ACLU?
• Neo-liberalism, and what's wrong with it.  (Jacobin Magazine, via Making Light)
  
  History of a philosophy change.
• San Jose High badminton coach arrested for dating student, which I am including not because OMG school sex scandal (the San Jose police are catching a number of inappropriate student-teacher relationships) but because -- Badminton Coach?  A high school has a badminton coach?  There is competitive badminton in South Bay schools?  Wow.