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Warm Coke in the morning–

Lights pass on the ceiling–

Stay in bed.

Yale Free Press: Scroll down for Prof. Cass Sunstein’s reply to Gene Vilensky on property rights and natural rights. Diana Feygin chips in here on the “rubber band of rights-talk.” Really interesting exchange.

Last lines of poems. Neat! Via Unqualified Offerings.

And the consistently-interesting Jonetta Rose Barras writes, “This statistic in a magazine article recently caught my eye: Eighty-nine percent of journalists belong to the middle or upper-middle class. And because the media are so isolated from poor and working-class Americans, the article argued, they find it difficult to report on or to articulate class issues.

“This argument struck me as particularly relevant in light of the media’s handling last month of Bill Cosby’s frontal assault on ‘lower income’ African Americans for ‘not holding up their end’ in the push for black progress. Although the comedian specifically referred to class in his blistering commentary, the media translated his remarks into a manifesto on personal responsibility alone.

“That was surely one point Cosby was making but, in fixating solely on that, journalists actually diverted attention from the most salient truth that Cosby had exposed: the festering wound of class division in black America.”

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