This day in history

2012, 2017.

#10yrsago Meritocracies become oligarchies https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-elites-fail/

#10yrsago FunnyJunk’s bewildered lawyer: “I’m completely unfamiliar really with this style of responding to a legal threat” https://web.archive.org/web/20120613010748/http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/12/12187665-cartoonist-turns-lawsuit-threat-into-100k-charity-fundraiser

#5yrsago PA supreme court: was illegal to steal elderly woman’s home because her son sold $140 of weed https://reason.com/2017/05/30/court-to-grandma-you-shouldnt-lose-your/

#5yrsago Missouri legislator responds to abortion controversy by slaughtering chicken. ‘God gave man dominion over animals.’ https://web.archive.org/web/20170613123526/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2017/06/13/missouri-legislator-decapitates-live-chicken-on-facebook-because-abortion

#5yrsago Down Among the Sticks and Bones: return to the world of Every Heart a Doorway, where gender and peril collide https://memex.craphound.com/2017/06/13/down-among-the-sticks-and-bones-return-to-the-world-of-every-heart-a-doorway-where-gender-and-peril-collide/

#5yrsago Automattic’s teleworking program is so successful they’re closing their San Francisco office…