28 September 2011 Oliver Sacks etc

via Skeptical Eye.

Matt Brownell, The Street, "The Most Corrupt Members of Congress"
09/26/11 - 01:10 PM EDT

Two from the Boston Review:

Jeanne Mansfield, "Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests"

Alexander B. Downes, "Regime Change Doesn’t Work"

Pepe Escobar, "The collapse of neoliberal capitalism"

The murder of Valerie Percy

NYT obit of her father, Charles Percy of Illinois, who died recently. Percy was one of the last liberal republicans, and Eisenhower's protegé. His daughter's 1966 murder is still unsolved.[via]