At last, Los Links. Pretty heavy on the pepper spray, alas. Address complaints to Sergeant John Pike, UC Davis Police. But only if you’re wearing a face shield.
Occupy Wall Street
Good: ‘Books Are Speech’: Why the OWS Library’s Destruction Is So Upsetting.
Slobber and Spittle: The Limits Of Force and Quote Of The Day.
UCDavis Bicycle Barricade: Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.
America Blog: OMG Cops pepper-spray UC Davis students, point blank in face, who are just sitting there doing nothing.
Kevin Drum: Video: UC-Davis Police Casually Pepper Spray Sitting Protesters.
Wonkette: A Children’s Treasury of American Cops Brutally Attacking Citizens.
Oregon Live: A face full of pepper spray vaults Occupy Portland protester to Internet fame, albeit painfully.
The Atlantic: ‘Standard Police Procedure’, The Moral Power of an Image: UC Davis Reactions, and The Cops We Deserve.
Cosmic Variance: Brutality and UC Davis Physicists to Chancellor Katehi.
Decrepit Old Fool: Violence for violence.
Moral Low Ground: Retired NY Supreme Court Justice Karen Smith Roughed up by Cops for Intervening in Brutal Beating of ‘Occupy’ Protester’s Mom.
Myrmecos: I was wrong about #OccupyDavis.
Huffington Post: Militarization Of Campus Police.
Daily Kos: OWS Participants – Your Rights Under Federal Law if You are Pepper Sprayed & Why You Should Sue.
Hullabaloo: Police, pain and peppers.
Speakeasy Science: Fox News Food Products.
Mim’s Bits: How Amazon Reviews Became a Vehicle for Protest.
The Atlantic: The Occupy Movement’s Woman Problem.
Quote and Comment: Excerpt from UC Davis 2010-2012 General Catalog.
SF Weekly: W. Kamau Bell: “Stop Talking Shit About the Occupy Movement”.
Rolling Stone: UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top.
Whiskey Fire: Ghosts of a Different Dream.
The Loyal Opposition: Pepper Spray at UC Davis.
Compound Eye: Why One Pepper-Spraying Cop Image Dominates.
Penn State
AlterNet: Child Rape, Penn State and the Catholic Church: Is Religion Especially Bad?
Science
Mountain Beltway: Friday fold: mafic metavolcanics.
Looking for Detachment: The Contact at Contact.
Master Organic Chemistry: Organic Chemistry Is Shit.
Scientific American: A New Creation Story.
Eurekalert: Princeton release: Massive volcanoes, meteorite impacts delivered one-two death punch to dinosaurs.
Environmental Graffiti: 15 Most Incredible Plunge Waterfalls on Earth.
Wooster Geologists: Wooster’s Fossils of the Week: Belemnites (Jurassic of Wyoming).
Telegraph: The ethereal beauty of melting icebergs, captured by photographer Paul Souders.
Geotripper: Hey! It’s not my fault! It’s San Andreas’ fault…A Creepy Story and Wandering Around Inside a Volcano: Exploring Pinnacles National Monument.
GeoKate in the Bay State: Metamorphosis of a Superhero.
Andrew Alden: Geoscience Makes Progress in California High Schools.
Lounge of the Lab Lemming: Migrating dinosaurs and oxygen isotopes.
The Loom: Are we the teachable species?
Paleoseismicity: New paper on the Japan 2011 tsunami and implications for paleotsunami research – Updated.
Laelaps: In Evolution’s Race, Horseshoe Crabs Took a Slower Pace.
Science With Moxie: SwM meets #Sfn11 Day One: Words, Pitch, and Rhythm.
Earth: Voices: Harassment of scientists reaches a fever pitch.
On Art: Leonardo da Vinci’s earth-shattering insights about geology.
New Scientist: Watery secret of the dinosaur death pose.
ABC News: What If Greenhouse Gases Weren’t Invisible?
The Scicurious Brain: Impulsivity, addiction, and your synapses.
Bad Astronomy: New satellite gets INSANELY hi-res view of Earth.
The Globe and Mail: As a brain surgeon, I know patients’ futures before they do.
Wired Science: Why Do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray?
Ancient Shore: Nothing But Blue.
Metageologist: Metamorphism: open or closed?
Glacial Till: Mid-Week Meteorite Fun: Undulating Olivine, Clinoenstatite, Planar Fractures, oh my!
Switchboard: “Use-By” Dates: a Myth that Needs Busting.
Tuff Guy: Pantelleria, A Volcano With A Trapdoor.
Wired Science: Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological Maps of Volcanoes.
Volcan01010: All the software a geoscientist needs. For free!
Writing
Diabetologia: What does an Editor look for?
The Business Rusch: How Traditional Publishers Are Making Money.
Slate: The Underachiever.
Copy Law: What Not to Miss When Drafting & Negotiating Your Book Publishing Contract.
Wicked & Tricksy: So You’re Thinking About Self-Publishing…
Nail Your Novel: I self-published – should you too?
David Palumbo: So you plan to commission a book cover?
Neil Gaiman: On Doughnuts, Posters, and remembering Anne McCaffrey.
EditTorrent: When grammar elements go out drinking.
Reporting on Health: Small Lessons from Michael Berens’ Big Investigation of Senior Abuse.
The Passive Voice: Something Else Penguin/Book Country Should Be Ashamed Of.
The Digital Shift: Penguin Restores Kindle Lending, but Still Not Providing Digital Editions of New Titles.
“Pretentious Title”: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day.
Women’s Issues
The Drum Opinion: Men call me things: it’s not as romantic as it sounds.
IPS: Women Push Back Into Public Space.
Butterflies and Wheels: Blot her out.
Lousy Canuck: Girls online: damned if you do, don’t, or simply ARE.
Atheism and Religion
Almost Diamonds: Preacher at the Funeral.
Maryam Namazie: I wish I were there with you.
Butterflies and Wheels: The rules.
No Longer Quivering: How Modesty Made Me Fat.
WWJTD: What I’m Thankful For: Respect – *Real* Respect.
Politics
The Pump Handle: Young farm workers at greater risk of dying on-the-job, proposal to protect them called “detrimental,” “foolish” and “idiotic”.
Slobber and Spittle: History, Blah, Blah.
X-Blog: “Gentlemen Shall Lean to the Left”.
Slate: Rule of Lord.
Move On: Top 5 FOX Myths To Debunk This Thanksgiving.
BlueOregon: Ballsy: Kitzhaber stops all death penalty executions for his term in office.
The Spirited Atheist: Christian politicians exalt suffering in GOP campaign.
Climate Progress: Top 10 Reasons Republicans Were Wrong to Kill NOAA Climate Service.
Society and Culture
The Rumpus: Silhouettes.
Skepchick: Twilight: Breaking Wind.
In Focus: A Trip to Bhutan.
The Answer Sheet: ‘Exemplary’ Texas school taught only two subjects.
Nieman Journalism Lab: How a photographer generated over $100,000 through Facebook.
The Oatmeal: Thanksgiving.
XX Factor: Porn That Women Like: Why Does It Make Men So Uncomfortable?
He’s been demoted? I was hoping for more, but these are the times when we need to manage our expectations…
It’s nice links this week.