Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Another Religion Reporter Loses His Faith – An excellent article — and sadly (scandalously) true about how intradenominational bickering is some of the worst. Jesus wept.
- Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win – Yeah, well, there’s a shocker.
- New Poll: 77 Percent Support “Choice” Of Public Option – Amazing. Americans want choice.
- Carrier can’t stop hackers stealing customer info – Well, that makes me feel good about having an AT&T account …
- Brutal military dictatorship that backs Fiji Water – Do. Not. Drink.
- Two moons, circling – Extremely cool.
- EVE Online unleashes Unholy Rage on in-game currency traders – An encouraging story.
- GOP attacks Obama for not being bipartisan enough – I keep desperately hoping that the GOP simply isn’t outsmarting the Obama White House on all of this, in the Democrats’ desire to get some sort of health care reform passed. I keep desperately hoping …
- Jury Duty Democracy – I actually recall an old SF short story (Asimov?) where the president for each year was chosen through some random lottery. I’ve always wondered …
- The Bush CIA was freakin’ crazy – Money graf: “Meanwhile the Teabaggers, crying at every opportunity about how “our government” has been “stolen from us” will have absolutely nothing to say about a secret sidebar deal between… some person in the government and… some rich guy… to run around assassinating people for money. Oh, and did I leave out the fact that all the money’s gone and nobody got assassinated?”
- Printing the legend – I’ll note that my own employer is incorporated in Delaware, though headquartered a continent away.
- Kid Hurts Knee in Little League — Parents Sue. Who Won? « FreeRangeKids – Holy Moley. I think we better just get rid of Little League — those swinging bats and flying balls could HURT SOMEONE. Yeesh.
- Stupid Evil Bastard: Man arrested for breath mints spends 3 months in jail. – But don’t you feel so much safer?
- Fox News viewers overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals. – I guess you can fool some of the people all of the time.
- Pro-Life Church Says They’ll Take Care of Any Babies You Give Them – Putting their money and their principles where their mouth is. Good for them.
- Certified Pre-Owned Cats: Inspected, Detailed, Better Than New! [Marketing] – Definitely worth getting a “pre-owned” cat.
- Best sentence I’ve read all day – Ha! You mean people might not be aware of what they actually listen to? Or might be trumping up the diary numbers of shows they think they should be tuning to? Inconceivable!
- James Dyson’s uphill water flow illusion – Brilliant! A worthy successor to the “floating spigot” illusion.
- Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at “town hall” meeting, effectively invoking Godwin’s law. – There are times Frank drives me utterly crazy. And then there are times like this when I could just kiss him. His Daily Show appearances are pretty funny, too.
- Crosswalk Sign Hacks – Ha!
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Well, it’s too bad that being a Religion Reporter never effected Jean Torlkelson one Iota.
Captcha: Temples Learning =P
“Franchise” by Isaac Asimov
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_%28short_story%29
That’s the one! Thanks.