Stuff that people wrote that is good

On weekends (which, for me, a U of M education student, also include Mondays), I try to take care of all of my assigned readings for the upcoming week. This is less about good work habits than it is a curious form of procrastination where I do the least important things first.

Unfortunately, it also means that I have to spend a few hours in a very cloudy headspace where a lot of pretty hazy concepts are bandied about. I am used to a bit more precision in academic reading, but in education, it seems like everything can be boiled down to a diagram that looks something like this.
The triangle with bidirectional arrows is ubiquitous, and by now conveys almost no meaning at all.

Because of all this, I am always happy to read good, and more importantly, interesting, writing.

Here's some:

Bali Dancing (Walrus, March 2008)

Salesman Katz fails to deliver the goods (Winnipeg Free Press, 9 February 2008)

David Asper's history lesson (Rise and Sprawl, 8 Febuary 2008)

These are arranged in descending order of scathing.