An update on Caine’s Arcade. They are now using the money to create a foundation to send similarly clever kids to college. Good stuff.
The California Taco Trail: ‘How Mexican Food Conquered America’ : The Salt : NPR
It isn’t enough to read this. You have to give it a listen.
And then go find the book. I haven’t stopped grinning every time I pick it up.
The cost of a nation of incarceration – CBS News
One of the worst things we have done in this nation is to make damn near everything a felony. Particularly things like drug use which can be cured at less cost than in just locking folks up.
Given the racial bias in sentencing for drug crimes, it just seems like a way to keep minorities off the streets – and away from the voting booth. Sunday Morning spent some time today on the issue.
It needs more attention but this helps.
Caine’s Arcade: Boy’s cardboard arcade gets him a scholarship fund, viral video – latimes.com
This is freaking awesome!
Bonus, now Caine is getting a actual pinball machine donated to him.
Bonus:
NBC coverage follows
The Cleanest Line: Let’s Bring Back Repair
An awesome statement on something we should all strive to do whenever we can.
Buy something and keep it in good repair as long as you can. Eventually industry might get back to making things that last. We can hope, right?
Then again, I spend an hour or so every week fixing stuff around here, usually toys or stuff *I* myself bust. So I’m all on board with this notion without even realizing it.
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked … as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia | Mail Online
My first thought about this somewhat intensely investigated story is that one look at this pic and I can’t stop thinking that Banksy is Saul Rubinek.
Robert Reich Explains How Mitt Romney Got Obscenely Rich
It’s Not Your Imagination: Republicans Really Don’t Like Science | Mother Jones
Republicans don’t believe in science.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I know otherwise bright people who think the GOP is teh shiznit. Engineers, educators, database gurus. But they just pull the lever. They aren’t looking at who they are voting for. Or – worse – they know and do it anyway.
You’ve got a party that doesn’t believe in evolution, or sex ed, or math apparently. Definitely not in climate change. Certainly not in the scientific method.
It would be pathetic if it wasn’t a plot to dumb down our nation long enough for them to hold power for another generation.
Boycotts Hitting Group Behind ‘Stand Your Ground’ Gun Laws : NPR
Companies who support groups like ALEC for their business stances are now being targeted for being in bed with a group that in recent years has a) made it legal to shoot black kids based solely on whether or not they are wearing a hoodie, b) try to, for example, disenfranchise half a million voters (which is the plan here in Minnesota) to solve a supposed voter fraud problem which – if it occurs at all – shows up in about 0.00002% of all votes cast, and c) don’t start me on the immigration BS they are pulling in the past and future Treason States.
So, yes, if you fund this, knowingly or not, expect a backlash.
At this point, screw Kraft. They want to side with bigots, they don’t deserve my coin.
Canadians are killing off their penny | Marketplace from American Public Media
Two stories from Marketplace about how Canada is getting rid of their pennies.
Here is the other one.