Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Pieces Of Red State ‘Send Rock Salt To Snowy Clime, As A Protest’ Plan Falling In Place [1] – That’s probably one of the goofier protests I’ve read about in a long time.
- PA GOP Replaces “O” In Obama’s Name With Hammer And Sickle [2] – And this, children, is one reason why partisan court elections are such a bad idea.
- Does President Obama Care About Public Opinion On Afghanistan? [3] – We neither want a President who is a slave to the polls, nor who disregards what the people think. A leader and a servant. It’s a very difficult role to play, and few Presidents have done it consistently well.
- NaNoWriMo: The Debbil’s Adbocate [4] – Some useful perspective on NaNoWriMo … though it’s not going to stop me from doing it.
- Hollywood Waiter Claims Run-In With ‘Hung’ Star Cost Him His Job – omg! news on Yahoo! [5] – Um … bitch about your job online, in an identifiable way, esp. about an identifiable client, and, yeah, that’s a likely reason to get fired. Unprofessionalism usually is.
- Why Wording Counts: Drea [6]
- The 20 Best Windows Tweaks that Still Work in Windows 7 [7] – Making a note to look at this after we do Win7.
- Jim Hill: Disney hits the reset button on Winnie the Pooh [8] – Well-done is well-done. If they can take the character in a proven setting and tell good, solid tales with them, then it’s a great thing.
- Report: New DOJ guidelines to back medical marijuana laws – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room [9] – I am sure all true conservatives will be thrilled at this example of the Obama Administration’s support of states rights.
- Some Christians mad at R. Crumb [10] – Unless they can point to some sex and violence he portrays that isn’t in the Book of Genesis, I suggest they leave off. If you’re going to argue that Scripture is the Directly Transcribed Word of God, then turning around and downplaying any aspect of it seems more than a bit suspect.
- Denounced as witches, African children suffer mightily [11] – One wonders where Abp. Akinola, so fiery and frothing at the American church for embracing The Evil Gays, is in stopping these horrifying activities in his own back yard.
- Game of choice for extremists and eliminationists – ‘2011: Obama Coup Fails’ [12] – It’s not so much that someone’s developed this game, but that (a) it’s so badly put together, and (b) so badly written. One could write this sort of thing semi-believably by turning the hyperbole-meter down to only 11, and be far more effective. (See Harlan Ellison’s “Glass Teat” column about the Resistance in a Nixonian Fascist State for a less breathless example — and we are talking Harlan Ellison here as a model for calm, which tells you how over-the-top this particular “game” is.)
- Perino admits the Bush administration essentially froze out MSNBC ‘towards the end.’: Matt Corley [13]
- Byron Williams: Mormon Paradox [14] – Money graf: “In this context, Oaks speaks as a member of the dominant culture who already has the privilege that others are trying to secure.”
- 10 Ways to Get Fired For Building Your Personal Brand [15] – Lot of good advice here.
- Rep. Kingston Doesn’t Mention The Stimulus When Handing Out Stimulus Funds [16] – Again, still, some more, thus demonstrating the demagoguery and hypocrisy of the GOP leadership on this issue.
- GOP Launches Strategy to Trip Up Health Bill – Roll Call [17] – For “We need time to give the public a chance to figure out what’s in it and what they don’t like about it,” read, “We need time to scare the American public into acting against their best interests.”
- Man finds missile launcher in Comal County [18] – I find it remarkable that it took as much effort as it did to get someone to take charge of the darned thing. I feel safer!
- Ninety Years of Refrigerators, and Logos [19] – I love the classic script version, and think it still has traction in a more modern design era. The new one had potential, but really didn’t end up as anything all that noteworthy (and, if it isn’t, why bother?).
- Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance [20] – On the one hand, this sounds like a great idea. On the other hand, yikes, yeah, what I need is a much longer list of people I’m following.
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