Drum Roll, Please

The Guardian has some great physicist quotes up about the Higgs Boson.

So I'd like several Higgs particles, Higgsinos, some ghostly stuff, and a pony.

Did I mention that they are aware of all internet traditions?

C

Balls

Here is what this page had as a banner on 21 Nov., 2011

http://english.ucdavis.edu/

The faculty of the UC Davis English Department supports the Board of the Davis Faculty Association in calling for Chancellor Katehi’s immediate resignation and for “a policy that will end the practice of forcibly removing non-violent student, faculty, staff, and community protesters by police on the UC Davis campus.” Further, given the demonstrable threat posed by the University of California Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to the safety of students, faculty, staff, and community members on our campus and others in the UC system, we propose that such a policy include the disbanding of the UCPD and the institution of an ordinance against the presence of police forces on the UC Davis campus, unless their presence is specifically requested by a member of the campus community. This will initiate a genuinely collective effort to determine how best to ensure the health and safety of the campus community at UC Davis.

Update in 30 days

Subbed out

Douche-hat is Jimbo's metier, but his points refer to deeper issues.
A taste:

Sure, why not? Might we just take a moment to mention, here, that this is more-or-less what the FBI was up to forty years ago, and most of our efforts since then have gone into creating some Half-Plausibly Deniable Universe in which Dirty Hippies were 50% of the problem back then, and 100% of the Losers. We're still being policed by Bull Connor; its just that today he's got a better PR department.

A Pretty Good Week

What Flying Rodent said,

Let me put it this way. During the week when the Guardian - a paper that Nick and his pals have spent years dumping oceans of shit over - rocked the foundations of the world's most powerful media empire, shut down a criminal enterprise and brought a genuine scandal of public interest to the front doors of Number 10 and the Metropolitan Police...

Fancy some popcorn?

C

For Future Reference

Professeur Dangereuses on Ellen Willis.

Glen Beck - Old School

Like Digby said...

My Hero

As evidenced by the two previous post, I am a follower of Krugthulu.
That said, there is this Hoosier...

For the love of Voltaire, how often do people need to be reminded that all our enemies are idiots? Can one in three Americans even point to Libya on a map? (Can 2 in 3 point out Africa?) It's like the Red Menace was that bad boy boyfriend we broke up with after high school, but still fantasize about during those monthly three-minute sessions with the actuary with the combover we wound up with.

Read it all here.