Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Cutting back on your long list of passwords: A Googler [1]
- Deep Rift in Chicago [Pharyngula] [2] – People do stupid things. Even self-labeled ethical people — or self-labeled religious people, or any other group of people, no matter how virtuous they claim to be as a group. That’s because they are people. Then, having done something stupid, they do other stupid things to cover up the first stupid. It’s sad, and we should ask for better from each other — but before anyone starts smirking and pointing at the “so-called ethical humanists,” let those without sin cast the first smirk.
- Swedish Government Promises Citizens 100MB Broadband [3] – Socialists! I mean, how can it be any good if someone isn’t making obscene profits off of it?
- New Siege of Mirkwood Trailer [4] – Quite cool.
- Ray Comfort Replies to Eugenie Scott [5]
- Moderate GOPer in NY-23 Cuts Robocall For The Democrat: Greg Sargent [6]
- As Congress Considers State Secrets Reform, Obama Admin Tries to Shut Down Yet Another Warrantless Wiretapping Lawsuit: bankston [7]
- Pawlenty Refuses To Say That He’s ‘Glad’ Olympia Snowe Is In The Republican Party: Lee Fang [8]
- Why Hatch Is Really Blocking Health Reform: Americans Will Love The New System And Vote Democratic [9] – It’s not that they’re afraid it will fail, it’s that they’re afraid it will succeed. It’s all about WINNING with these people.
- Anti-choice activists attempt to subvert eBay efforts to prevent Roeder auction. [10] – Because why let rules and policy get in the way of Doing What’s Right? These folks clearly answer to a Higher Law, right?
- Sebelius: Public Should Ignore Beck On H1N1 Vaccine And ‘Talk To Somebody With A Little Scientific Background’ [11] – “But if we trust scientists — who knows what they’ll tell us to believe in!?”
- Matthew Yglesias » Boehnercare: No Soup For You [12] – It’s the quintessential GOP proposal — solve the problem of an abusive, profit-driven (and quite wealthy) industry by deregulating it. Brilliant!
- Think Progress » Despite Rhetoric About Preexisting Conditions, Boehner’s Health Care Plan Doesn’t Bar Denials [13] – “We fully agree with the American People that this is a very critical thing be concerned about, far too critical to be actually addressed in our draft proposal …”
- Rush Limbaugh: Victim of the “Minority Thought Pattern” [14] – A “Minority Thought Pattern” that disdains everything done by white males is as blind, juvenile, and simplistic as a “Majority Thought Pattern” that credits everything to white males (and the God that clearly chose them to do everything important in our history).
- What’s Another Word For Antichrist? [15] – Speaking of hubris and being a cheap pettifogger — what’s with the long words, dude? Are they paying you by the syllable?
- The Right Rallies For Rifqa [16] – Wow, the rabid paranoia, Islam-bashing, and hyperbole is really getting cranked up here. I suspect, though, if the shoe were on the other foot (a Christian-family girl who’d converted to Islam), all those protestations of “individual religious freedom” would be replaced with screams about brainwashing and parental rights. But, then, that’s the point here — it’s NOT really about religious freedom with these people, but about Christians winning against the Muslims.
- Sessions Seeks To Filibuster David Hamilton, Leave Him In “Unconscionable Limbo” [17] – Unconscionable limbo holding of nominees for me, but not for thee.
- At the Last Minute, Huckabee Suddenly Becomes a Hoffman Booster [18] – I suspect this will haunt him in some quarters, but not a lot.
- Anti-Alan Grayson smears in context: Cory Doctorow [19]
- TV admits it was wrong about PVRs [20] – Something to remember for the next time Big Media throws a hissy fit about some new technology that upsets their expectations and business models.
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