* “The Death of Safe Sex“? (The question mark is mine).
* Law schools increasingly look like scams; see here for more.
* The Cowboy and the Welfare State, concerning “an area of Minnesota where people inveigh against the welfare state, despite being inextricably tied to it.” Filed under: hypocrisy.
* The War on Cameras, which actually concerns whether police are accountable to the public or to no one, a la The Wire.
* My Last Day: Le Bernardin’s Pastry Chef Reflects on 8 Long Years.
* How Nikon is killing camera repair.
* For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage. This quote from the article: “Ms. Strader said her boyfriend was so dependent that she had to buy his cigarettes. Marrying him never entered her mind” reminds me of Bryan Caplan’s post “Poverty, Conscientiousness, and Broken Families,” where he says, “even when [the authors] are talking about men, low female conscientiousness is implicit. After all, conscientious women wouldn’t associate with habitually unemployed men in the first place – not to mention alcoholics, addicts, or criminals.”
* Skills and the liberal arts.
* James Fallows on tricks of the interview trade. I want to find an excerpt but the piece has too many to choose one.
* Mag Lights are still made in the USA.
* “A school suspended a teacher for using the racial epithet in an educational context. Now he’s suing his district. Why is this considered hate speech?” The school’s reaction here is inane; you can’t teach books like Huck Finn without using the word “nigger” (for that matter, it would be hard to discuss, say, the lyrics of Jay-Z—or community cohesion and The Wire—without using it). Racially derogatory terms can’t be magically excised from the language, and to pretend they don’t exist is to ignore a vital avenue of discussion.
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