Undernews: March 25, 2014

Great moments in the nation's capital

How the religious right damaged Christianity

The odds against black girls in school

Pocket paradigms The managerial class:

Why being first may not be much

Tales from the Attic; Stop the Renaissance, I want to get off

The merits of single payer

French government bans GMO corn

Kale konspiracy spreads with gentrification to New Orleans

Are the young drifting right?

Gloria Steinem at 80
Getting the free speech movement going 50 years ago
Appeals court suspends gay marriage in Michigan
Lies that some voucher schools are teaching children
The down side of making it big
Adjuncts look towards labor unions
A people's plan to save Detroit

Update
Reader Bill L adds to our list of favorite country & western songs: ""My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Miss Him."

Word
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right. - Jack Kerouac

Pocket paradigms
I started out as a political reporter. Now I'm a crime reporter. The kind of people I cover hasn't changed, only what they do. - Sam Smith

Stats
Peter Kraska, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University’s School of Justice Studies, estimates that SWAT teams were deployed about 3,000 times in 1980 but are now used around 50,000 times a year.

Ohio youths were held in solitary confinement a total of 209,266 hours last year – an average of 453 hours per youth.

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