Rad Geek People's Daily 2010-10-08

Friday Lazy Linking (posted 8 October 2010, 2pm)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 14 years ago, in 2010, on the World Wide Web.

Joe Conason Prefers American Cheese to Vienna Sausages. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-06). Joe Conason's columns are reliably stupid, but this week he's really outdone himself. Here's his reaction to the news that Tea Partiers have been reading Austrian economics: The Austrian craze is particularly curious because it has displaced a school of economics that ought to be more appealing to the proud… (Linked Wednesday 2010-10-06.)
California City Redevelopment Agencies: Waste, Abuse, What Else is New? Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-06). The Redevelopment Racket Vs. Affordable Housing. (Linked Wednesday 2010-10-06.)
If you have a .ly domain, you should know that the only way to escape the Libyans is with a flux capacitor and a Delorean. Mark Pilgrim, Mark's Firehose (2010-10-06). (Linked Friday 2010-10-08.)
Making a Market in Antipsychotic Drugs: An Ironic Tragedy. Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Peter Breggin (2010-09-23). Remember not so long ago when Prozac became the world’s largest selling medication of any kind, and then for years how Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft took over many of the top 10 spots? Remember the explanations at the time–that they were wonder drugs and that 15-50 percent or more of… (Linked Friday 2010-10-08.)