Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Buffy’s Coming Back! « TVOvermind – Hmmmmm … guardedly optimistic.
- Joe Lieberman has had tax-payer financed health care for most of his adult life. But, he doesn’t want us to have options. – AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth – Ah, the Big Guy speaking for the Little Guy. Democracy in action.
- The Most Disturbing Animals On Earth | World Of Mysteries – Gah! I will have nightmares about that picture.
- The End of the One Islam Lie – People are people. Or, as the article says, “Religion is not so much a set of beliefs as it is a response to revelation, and as we see in Christianity and Judaism and Islam and Buddhism and Hinduism, the response to revelation varies endlessly.” Just as one cannot generalize, over the centuries and the world, whether Christianity is a religion of “love” or a religion of “war,” making the same assumptions (happy or hateful) about Islam is not a useful simplification.
- Testing My PATIENTS – Brilliant take-down. The GOP’s goals on health care seem to be (a) make sure the insurance and pharma industries don’t get hurt, and (b) make sure the White House and Dems don’t get any political credit. Their concern for (c) keeping people well and healthy and not bankrupt seems to be rhetorical at best.
- Right Wing: Campaign Promises Only Valid When Made to Us – “Payback for me and not for thee.”
- Do Not Mix: Empty Threats & Loaded Barrels – Natural selection in action …
- No Constitutional Right to DNA Evidence for Criminals
- ‘Less Plastic’ Label On Mega-Plasticked Thumb Drives Makes Us Wonder What ‘More Plastic’ Looks Like [Plastic Coffins] – I can understand (though not approve) the amount of plastic used here (for display, for protection from theft) … but that little note on the cover is too damned goofy for words.
- Naked Lies – Heh.
- Give him a fair trial and then execute him! – Yeesh. (Side note: I’d take being excommunicated by the Lutheran Missouri Synod as a mark of pride.)
- Thomas Kinkade: Born-Again Christian Artist Convicted of Fraud – I do know some folks who like Kinkade’s work (not my cuppa, to be sure) — but surely we all know that the quality (or lack thereof) of artistic product has little or nothing to do with the quality of the person itself (cf. least favorite overly-political actor, screwpot writer, unsavory composer, asshat singer, etc.).
- Pajamas Media » Why They Hate Sarah Palin – Because remember: modern liberal feminism stands for ‘nothing more than increasing the number of abortions, encouraging teenage girls to act like skanks, and pointlessly complaining about the “patriarchy.”’ Riiiight.
- Ezra Klein – Health Care Reform in Danger – The problem with an budget number to work from is that the variables as to what the true costs will be are so wide. There will always be voices saying “We cannot afford anything more” and “We can afford anything.” We should decide what things we need to have, then see how to achieve them. This is not a debate about finance first; it is a debate about health first.
- Herb Stein’s Unfamiliar Quotations – By Herbert Stein – Slate Magazine – Ran across this (1997) article doing some research. Some great quotes and commentary here (some of which will show up in WIST).
- Obama, DADT and DOMA
- Insurance Industry Still Wants To Cancel Sick People’s Coverage [Rescission Watch] – For-profit insurance will always be drive by, well, profit.
- UK cop: ‘War on terror means no pictures of police vans in disabled parking spots’: Cory Doctorow
- City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks – That’s no more appropriate, or safe, than asking for their credit card numbers to check out recent purchases. I can understand asking for the account names (to review content), if we’re doing criminal background checks … but, no, you don’t get into my accounts and you don’t get to search my house, either.
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