- JetBlue, where we jet. My home for September..
- The LA Times how to save journalism article regarding Murdoch: “Putting aside the irony of the man who probably has done more to undermine serious English-language news coverage than anybody else in our lifetimes now proposing to save it” Let’s not put that irony aside. Let’s get real suspicious about it. (Author Tim Rutten doesn’t realize this has all been done before, by people with better lobbyists no less. It didn’t work for them either. Here’s the other flaw with the plan. I am never going to give one of them my money. Ever. And I’m a freakin’ journalist.)
- King Kaufman scathingly replies to the above: We must kill press freedom to save it. I guess the most fun part of watching a replaying of the RIAA, MPAA, and (to a lesser extent) TV wars it this time the writing is much better.
- YADFWI. (Yet another DFW interview) This one while he was writing IJ, and expresses something I’ve never been able to express myself about why I think utilitarianism is quite possibly evil. He also gave me better ways to talk about Wittgenstein. And express that poetry is the opposite of logical positivism. God, just go read it
- PLoS Med article on the archive of Wyeth’s ghostwriting on its products for academics to sign. Have I mentioned that medical and scientific research can make Congress look downright honest
- Portugal and drugs. This will require a lot of thinking from me.
- Shake hands with danger. Go on. SHAKE.