The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/04/23)

Policeman with drawn revolvers keep protesters at bay from the administration building at San Francisco State on December 5, 1968. Photo: UPI

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. It was a quiet week, but jam packed with high quality articles. The following made The Committee’s list for awards…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/04/16)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. No snafus this week. But it was quite late nonetheless… about 6 AM EDT. No excuses. Once again, The Committee had much to choose from in granting awards to the choicest articles this week. The results were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/04/09)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. Actually had it up at around 3am this morning. Then, while I slept, the web host decided to revert everything to 12-15 hours earlier. I reconstructed the post from the RSS email. Painful. But faster than trying to rewrite the half of it that didn’t show up in version history from memory. Hopefully that won’t happen again. Leading the news this week: Obama’s Spy-gate and Trump’s inexplicable neocon turn. But the greatest articles had nothing to do with any of that. We take our history slow… and our political theory even slower. There was a veritable cornucopia of extremely high quality articles. The Committee even had to strike a couple from the list, as it grew so long. The best of the best were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/04/02)

Welp, last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. A grueling week. No major news within or without the sphere, but tons of high quality articles to sift through. I linked about 117 articles. The following bubbled up to the top of The Committee’s Notice…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/03/26)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. A quiet week in Lake Woebegone, as it were. Still, some hugely important and high quality articles came out. Two (2) of them from Doug Smythe made the podium here. The Committee’s nods, double-nods, and triple-nods went as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/03/19)

Soldiers with the 4th ID, 3rd Brigade, from the 1st Batallian-68th Armored Regiment momentarily detain and search Iraqi men during a night patrol north of Baghdad near the Balad Base in Iraq, June 27, 2003. Minutes after this image was shot, an Iraqi civilian crossed over what was possibly a remote detonated explosive device set in the road intended for the US troops meters before the convoy of US vehicles, and severely injured the man. (Credit: Lynsey Addario, for the New York Times)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The Committee’s ballots went for the following notables:

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/03/12)

Last week’s This Week in Reaction is now up at Social Matter. Very crowded near the top of The Committee’s balloting. The results were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/03/05)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The Editorial Committee’s picks were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/02/26)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. Milo’s resignation and he did or didn’t say about pedo was (unfortunately) in the news. So too, Nick Land’s twitter suspension and reinstatement. But news doesn’t make the meat, but only hors d’oeuvres. The Committee’s awards for the choicest articles were distributed as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/02/19)

Jerry Falwell at 1980 rally in Trenton, NJ

Hey-ho! Last week’s This Week in Reaction is finally up over at Social Matter. We had a bit of Mother-Daughter 30 years apart, PT Carlo triggering the bejeezus out of so-cons and so-called-cons, and quite a few more doses of Cost Disease, which continues to stump otherwise intelligent and caring liberals. The Committee’s picks were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/02/12)

Tom Sawyer games holiness signals, until he can’t.

Last week’s This Week in Reaction is up over at Social Matter. Mainstream media attention to our small intellectual salon was in the news. As well as “Boldmug’s” recent appearance and knowledge dump. Same ol’ “Boldmug”… The Committee’s decisions for honors went as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/02/05)

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The Committee pared back the number of awards from that which they had been giving of late, because it had gotten out of hand. Their choices were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/01/29)

Universal Man: Sculpture by Gerald Gladstone, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto, ON.

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. It was a jam-packed, high-quality week throughout the sphere. Many worthy articles failed to make the honorable mention category. In contested balloting, The Committee’s decisions were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/01/22)

Welp… Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. The Committee’s decisions were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/01/15)

The Lord of Misrule, the Master of the Fools’ Ball

Last week’s TWiR is finally up at Social Matter. Right on schedule: About 8 hours after I’d ideally like to get it out. Anyway, The Committee had a lot to choose from in distributing the awards this week. They were as follows…

The Very Best of Last Week in Reaction (2017/01/08)

Last week’s This Week in Reaction is finally up over at Social Matter. The Committee’s editorial picks went as follows…