The everyday practice of mutual support cannot take the place of social security, no matter how much successive governments try to spin the issue into one of “deserving” and “dependency.”
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading
Athena FF: Amma Asante’s Belle Revisits Jane Austen Through Black POV
To watch
On Hild, Female Readers of Genre Fiction, and Not Being Game of Thrones
To read
“Jonathan Ferrell ran towards police seeking help after a car accident and was given a hail of…”
Frontier takes over Verizon’s network, complaints fall by 68%
On Wishing and Hoping for a Migraine-Free Future
“Imaging myself migraine-free doesn’t propel me forward, it focuses my thoughts on what is wrong with my life.”
David Morris: When it Comes to Public Services, Government Knows Best
A Conservative Who Was Right About Occupy
sandandglass:Jason Jones talks to a Russian woman protesting…
migraine is classified as a disability?
Migraine is disabling
I’ve got the ideas, but is it enough?
Scicurious thinks she’s not good enough at coming up with ideas to be a scientist. I’m really, really good at coming up with ideas, but I’m terrible at breaking them down into scienceable chunks and carrying them out. Maybe (hopefully) this is something my training will fix, but wouldn’t it be awesome if people like Scicurious and I could team up? I guess that’s partly what collaboration is for – shoring up the weaknesses you can’t fix in yourself.
What’s more important, intention or result?
“If we continue to talk about tight labor markets as if that is a truly evil phenomenon,” the New York Fed president brooded in a 2000 meeting transcript, “we are going to convince the American people that what we believe in is not price stability, which is for the good of everybody, but a differentiation in income distribution that goes against the working people.”
While you’re waiting for the bus
Stuff worth reading
Target’s “Second-Rate” Fix for Hacking Victims May Leave Customers Vulnerable I haven’t even been able to successfully sign up for this yet.
Daniel Moss: Cities Partner with Rural Communities to Protect Water
Robert Reich: Why The Lousy Jobs Report Boosted Wall Street
15 Photos From The Massive Progressive Protest You Didn’t Hear About This Weeken…
Go NC!
Provision Requiring Lawmakers to Disclose Subsidies Removed From Final Farm Bill
“I know I’ve told this story before, but my abusive ex refused to let me take birth control. I was…”
Frenchman Fined For ‘Theft’ And ‘Fraudulent Retention’ For Finding Health Docs Via A Google Search
Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal For Homeless To Use Blankets.
Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – Port Mann joins the watch list
Oh Wow- This Pain Scale is Pretty Great Apparently I should be using numbers much higher on the scale more often.
“We have this smoking gun”: Monsanto is killing the monarch butterflies.Turns out that butterflies can’t live on corn
Do you have to wear clothes outside?
Then I recommend this blog. It’s a fantastic guide to field gear for geologists and other women who do a lot of fieldwork. It doesn’t get too technical, but tells you everything you need to know.
But competition drives costs down!
once economic decisions are pictured as being made sequentially, as in real life, ownership patterns turn out to evolve through time in highly specific ways?— and they systematically gravitate toward precisely the kinds of patterns that generate indeterminacy of factor prices.
As a result, the central problem with marginal productivity theory that John Hicks recognized in the 1930s has never gone away: without the arbitrary assumption of freely differentiable production functions, wages and profits are not fixed by technologies and tastes. They are set by “something else”?— something outside the competitive model.