Friday’s Reading List
By Taylor Marvin
Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, 1864.
The best links of the week:
The American justice system is broken.
The Onion’s devastating look at what the last decade might have been.
Rio de Janeiro’s crack epidemic.
In defense of geekery: Why society needs SF/F (Via Alyssa Rosenberg).
Felix Salmon has fun with legos, Euro crisis edition.
“The Defense Department has franchises all over the world (some of which are more valuable than others).” I think you mean ‘some of which are more voluntary than others’.
One Comment
Post a comment
Smoke & Stir 
Let us not forget that Reagan’s future vp (Bush) and cia chief (Casey) met with the Ayatolla Khomeini behind the back of the then-current Carter administration (treason) and arranged for Iran to keep the American hostages until after the election. In return Iran got, at the very least, a conduit thru which to illegally receive missiles and other armaments–which came to light when traitor Ollie North got busted taking the missile $$$ and giving it to friends in Central America who turned out, naturally enough, to be drug smugglers USA-bound. Ah, the good old days…