Rad Geek People's Daily 2011-06-20

Monday Lazy Linking (posted 20 June 2011, 10am)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 13 years ago, in 2011, on the World Wide Web.

Broken windows in Vancouver. John, Blagnet.net (2011-06-17). (Linked Friday 2011-06-17.)
Wrongful Convictions. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason.com articles and blog posts. (2011-06-07). When Paul House was finally released from prison in 2008, he was a specter of the man who had been sentenced to death more than 22 years earlier. When I visit his home in Crossville, Tennessee, in March, House's mother Joyce, who has cared for him since his release, points… (Linked Friday 2011-06-17.)
Eating Steak On Rare Occasions. Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes (2011-06-17). Paging Dr. Adams. Dr. Carol Adams, stat. (Linked Friday 2011-06-17.)
On Bottom-Up Liberalism & Pity-Charity Liberalism. E.D. Kain, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2011-06-16). I've been thinking about bottom-up liberalism and pity-charity liberalism a lot lately, and the whole mess of ideas that swirl around between the two. Essentially, Mike Konczal thinks that growth plus safety nets is insufficient. Without a government fighting for full employment and increased worker bargaining rights, you get "pity-charity… (Linked Friday 2011-06-17.)