Links posted on June 20, 2009
Sometimes the best solutions to social problems aren't fair. A great oldish article from the New Yorker.
If you still have access to the UT library and can download this PDF, this article on Harper's is about the best thing I've read on the financial crisis.
And a graph (of a spurious correlation) that I stumbled upon that seems to be total mrflip bait
Journalist escapes over a wall after 7-mo imprisonment by Taliban - David Rohde, local journalist Tahir Ludin, and their driver were captured 7 months ago. The driver joined the Taliban; "Mr. Ludin joined him in climbing over the wall of a compound where they were being held in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan. They found a Pakistani Army scout, who led them to a nearby army base, and on Saturday they were flown to the American military base in Bagram, Afghanistan."
Related: Clay Shirky's entry in the death of newspapers essay competition ("Society doesn’t need newspapers. What we need is journalism") (also also)