So what is a "wage slave" anyhow?

Noam Chomsky gives his definition here. [YouTube]

Sign of the times: Noam Chomsky doesn't like Hugo Chavez anymore

Aww.

Noam Chomsky the noted linguistics scholar, MIT professor emeritus, and much bally-hooed libertarian anarchist political philosopher has come to his senses changed his mind and now believes that Chavez is just another Latin American strongman who is trying to establish permanent rule for himself based on his own cult of personality. Oh, and now Chavez admits to having cancer too.

Maybe there is some hope for Chomsky after all.

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A real estate mogul who is obsessed with Beat Generation writers. - Ann Arbor Observer

He's decided to largely ditch his real estate business and open an online bookstore that specializes in 1950's era Beatnik stuff.

Speaking ill of the dead - Detroit Free Press (slide show)

Ex-Redwing Bob Probert's funeral was just as garish and tacky as his life was.

The Last Good Country - Detroit Metro-Times

Ernest Hemingway's time in nothern Michigan as a young man. (book review)

LAPD show the Marines how to take on the Taliban - LA Times

hly-paid and tenured faculty for on-line classes?

The End of Free- The Atlantic

Free internet stuff that is. See, vulture capitalists just wanna get paid. Fuck 'em.

Noam Chomsky's inner conservatism - Taki's Magazine

Interesting read, but the author's conclusions are kinda of a stretch. Argued past the evidence.

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A college education may not be worth as much as you think. - Wall Street Journal
A collection of media star's letters to the Unabomber requesting interviews- The Smoking Gun
Are radical environmentalists wackos, terrorists, or prophets? - AlterNet
Lancet retracts 1998 article linking vaccine to autism. - Toronto Globe & Mail
Chomsky as Hugo Chavez's Clown - Anarchist Library (El Libertario #51, 2009)
Whatever Noam Chomsky really is remains unclear, but what he isn't is an anarchist.
Unusual Asteroid Tail Implies Powerful Collision - Astronomy Picture of the Day (02-03-10)
Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs - New Scientist
Neurologically, survival-based reaction is faster than a deliberate think-aim-shoot cycle.