The hunt continues, lethargically

Trader Joe's has really good clementines right now. Better than the ones I got at uhhhh Shaw's or Harvest? I think and definitely better than the end of season ones in Chile, though the earlier ones had been awesome. Good clementines = healthy candy, as far as I'm concerned.

The TJ in question was the one in south Cambridge, on Memorial Drive, 17 minute walk back to Central Square. Not going there again unless I end up living nearby. Alewife TJ isn't more than 10 minutes from Alewife, I'm fairly sure. Tempted to try to live near Coolidge Corner, where TJ is *right there* in a nice neighborhood (Alewife is in a giant mall, and Central TJ has little near it, though Central Square itself is busy.) Of course, that's less convenient to likely jobs and socializing in Red Line territory.

Got a $6 polyester scarf at Walgreen's. Not great but better than no scarf.

I finally watched FMAB 64 last night, the finale. I recommend tissues or a gag; it's full of Crowning Moment of Orchestra and you'll likely either cry, or laugh at how over the top it is (thus the gag, if watching in a group.) No spoiler comments please, I have innocent readers.

links

http://asociologist.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/the-myth-of-pretax-income/

engineer dominance of Facebook code process
http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/mars-dynamo-death/

Tea Party vs. the Constitution
http://www.slate.com/id/2279920/pagenum/all/
"Real libertarians would acknowledge that dysfunctional state
legislatures pose as great a threat to individual liberty as a
dysfunctional Congress"

stop pretending the Constitution is sacred
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/04/lind_tea_party_constitution/

1798 health insurance mandate
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/17/congress-passes-socialized-medicine-and-mandates-health-insurance-in-1798/

health insurance and the American Dream
http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/18/will-pre-existing-medical-conditions-spell-an-end-to-the-american-dream/


Republicans: US should ignore other countries on health care, imitate them on immigration
http://reason.com/blog/2011/01/04/ignoring-the-constitution-is-e

The Tea Party Constitution Versus the Thomas Jefferson Constitution
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155649/tea-party-constitution-versus-thomas-jefferson-constitution
17th amendment "unconstitutional"
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/04/is-any-part-of-the-constitutio

Michelle Bachmann calls for repealing Obama and the Senate
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/bachmann-repeal-the-senate-to-undermine-obamacare----the-crown-jewel-of-socialism.php?ref=fpb


African-American history museum
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/us/23smithsonian.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
the architecture
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/arts/design/04muse.html

free market at work: cell phone companies resisting requirement to alert
customers as they approach plan limits, before overage charges apply
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/business/23digi.html?_r=1&hpw

upheaval in fast food chains (ephemeral URL)
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/american-fast-food-from-supersize-to-downsized-535838.html

drones come to domestic law enforcement
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012204111.html

Israel Palestine negotiation details leaked. Offers of settlement land,
request to transfer Arab Israelis, tips of the anti-Hamas war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palestine-papers-expose-peace-concession

America's 15 million missing jobs. Education stalled, companies aren't
investing
http://nationaljournal.com/member/magazine/what-happened-to-15-million-u-s-jobs--20110120

small condo problems
http://www.boston.com/realestate/news/articles/2011/01/23/home_sweet_hell_falling_into_the_condo_trap/?p1=News_links

Glenn Beck's call to shoot liberals in the head
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/21/937651/-Becks-call-to-violence:-Shoot-them-in-the-head
leads to threats against 78 year old academic he targets
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/business/media/22beck.html