Actually, I think this deserves more than Quote of the Day — this is at least Quote of the Week, maybe of the month: Chris Lehmann in a Boston Phoenix article about the NYT’s recent series ‘Class Matters’:

Getting the New York Times to explain the real operation of social class in America is, at the end of the day, a lot like granting your parents exclusive license to explain sex to you: there are simply far too many conflicts that run far too deep to result in any reliable account of how the thing works.

Via this week’s Scanner.

Al has some things to say about the coming nursing shortage.

Startlingly bad eminent domain decision from the Supremes today — David Chess has a perfect reaction:

Good news, comrades! The Supreme Court of the People today affirmed the power of local soviets to allocate the use of land in whatever way most effectively furthers the aims of the Revolution, handing a smarting defeat to those reactionary running dogs who would put “private property rights” over the collective will of the masses! Local soviets may now freely allocate land not only to the use of the Party itself, but also to those forward-looking corporations cooperatives that do so much of the hard work of Revolutionary Advancement.

I saw this WaPo goof last night — I was scanning RSS feeds, and did a double-take on “Rehnquist retires/dies”. Hit CNN for confirmation, saw nothing, and figured it was a gaff, but whooooboy, the pucker factor ever increased dramatically there for a second or two.

(You can experience the moment yourself via a Bloglines screenshot over at C|Net. See, this is why I’m still obscure after all this time — forgetting to get screen grabs of obvious stuff like this.

Now available over at First Draft.

Over at RasterWeb, Raster and I are getting our obscurity on, which makes it all the more ironic that I just noticed a referer log hit from this year-old listing of “the first 25 blogs” (scroll way down; it’s in a later section of a long essay). Based on my rapidly-fading memory of The Way Things Were, the list is reasonably accurate, depending on what you consider a “weblog” — a conversation that I’m not getting into anymore.

So, yeehaw for me! — I was apparently one of the first 25 weblogs ev-ah, baby. That and three bucks will get me my favorite coffee house beverage. (I’m trying to decide if this warrants revising my CV or not, actually…)

Kudos to Dave on the poster idea.

Our dear friends in Hollywood are trying to slip the Broadcast Flag back in as an amendment to the Senate Appropriations bill. See this BoingBoing post for details, and if you’re a resident of Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, or Wisconsin, you should call your Senator ASAP to register your opinion — see the the BoingBoing post for phone numbers and a suggested script. I’m picking up the phone as soon as I put down this keyboard…

JS/UIX:

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.