Sunday links.
Dave Zirin, who writes about sports and politics, writes about Mark Buehrle and the meaning of the perfect game.
The AFT’s Leo Casey goes after the National Charter hucksters who claim they’re public when it suits them and claim they’re private when it suits them better.
Mike’s graphic gives a different and certainly more accurate meaning to the Arne’s RTTT “moon shot.”
Stanley Fish remembers Professor Gates from his days at Duke. It seems some things haven’t changed in the post-racial America.
If you can read this story by Jim Dwyer about Frank McCourt and his wife Ellen Frey McCourt without shedding a tear, you’re better than me.
The Trib’s Bonnie Rubin describes the human toll of the state’s budget assault on its citizens.
“Whose state is more corrupt?” Karina wondered in a note this morning that accompanied a link to the New York Post’s coverage of the corruption roundup. “I mean, rabbis? That’s pretty good stuff.”
I was happy to admit that Illinois no longer had such a commanding lead, since it has been nearly two full months since the last indictment of a politician here. Instead we seem to have settled into our more comfortable everyday existence. Mike Dumke
