Punkonomics (@DearBalak)

I’ve been a fan since I was a child and am very disappointed indeed. Elton! Are you strapped for cash? Some topics are controvercial perhaps but Walmart shareholders while their brave workers are protesting outside? While each store costs the taxpayers at least $1/2 million per year in hidden subsidies? While workers in poor countries die like flies in their death-trap subcontractors’ sweatshops? While they hardly pay any tax in the US through their fraudulent finances? Sure, most multinational corporations behave like this but at least Elton doesn’t fuckimg celebrate them!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339514/Poll-Massive-opinion-swing-shows-Democrats-criticized-Bush-era-NSA-surveillance-love-Obamas-version.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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They are Penelope and Mia Dutton as well as my own spawn Felix. We’ve already discussed last week how the rules and structure of the games effect the way people behave in them and that we could learn from these experimental laboratories. Today we will look at the epic narratives of the World of Warcraft and discuss how they effect behavior with a special attention to feminism.
NEXT WEEK we return to the real world with a vengence and will interview Sandy Davis about war crimes.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/10/why-a-romney-economic-adviser-wants-the-government-to-just-hire-people/