From Jesse Walker: “Info on my upcoming book, from the next HarperCollins catalog.”

Here’s the creepiest bit of dystopian legal language for the day: “mental hygiene warrants” “Real Time Crime Center” Keep in mind that one of the main activities of the “Real Time Crime Center” at this time, is to track down, arrest, imprison and force psychiatric treatment on, people who specifically *are not accused of committing any crime*. This bit of overtly totalitarian “mental-health” fascism has been brought to you by the New York Police Department. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/scoop_the_nuts_TujGFMPDFLCfDgxDqmjHIL

Your afternoon Western Swing (+ blue yodel). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azGe_13mtPY Alternative selection for those who don’t like blue yodel: a very smoothly harmonized version on guitar, harmonica and human beat-box from the Mills Brothers, shot in the early 1930s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruLIkHIIuwE

To-day at the Fair Use Repository: “For the McKinley Monument,” a proposal from FREE SOCIETY IX.20 (May 18, 1902).

is going through some variable scope rage at the moment. PHP 5.4, seriously, wtf?

Direct action gets the goods.

Direct action gets the goods.

Your lunchtime linguistics: singular “they,” bound variables and the papacy http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4475