Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- What’s in a name?: Steve
- Study shows cell phone users miss the obvious, like a unicycling clown — baltimoresun.com – If someone drive like an idiot in traffic these days — ignoring signals, signs, and other cars (and, yes, cyclists) — 9 out of 10 times you’ll see a cell phone up against their ear.
- Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee: bankston
- G. Gordon Liddy’s producer claims around ‘a million’ attended the GOP’s anti-health care reform rally. – Remember — it’s okay to lie, as long as it’s for a noble cause!
- Wonkette : Heartbreaking Bill Donohue Has Some TiVO To Catch Up On – Or maybe it was meant to be ironic. No, I kind of doubt it.
- O Come, All Ye Fanatics: California Teacher Wants To Require Christmas Carols In School | The Wall of Separation – Not fanatical — just very, very ignorant.
- Michael Steele Flip-Flops On Moderate Republicans [UPDATE]: The Huffington Post News Team
- Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters: Lee Fang
- CBO memo on GOP health care plan: minimal actual effect by 2019.: atropos
- CNN Political Ticker: Immigration a stumbling block for health care bill « – Blogs from CNN.com – “Because we don’t want them to be healthy. Even if it doesn’t cost the taxpayers a dime.”
- Think Progress » Right-wing protesters at GOP rally display prominent sign tying health care to the Holocaust. – Rhetorically racing for the bottom. Disgusting.
- The Sequel Question – Some interesting thoughts on sequels. I’d add, as a variant to the first question, “Is the main character going to have an even bigger problem as in the first book.” The need to trump last book’s crisis (and amplify the abilities of the protagonist to deal with it) often makes follow-ups increasingly absurd (see Laurell K Hamilton). After all, if in the first book the protagonist faces The Most Awful Gnorch Of All, discovering that in the next book the protagonist faces The Thing So Awful Even Gnorches Fear It, then in the next book The Thing That Eats Those Previous Things For Breakfast And Doesn’t Even Bother With Gnorches Because They’re Too Trivial … it all starts to feel silly (and debases the threat of the original story to boot).
- Drama Queen – Ha!
- Gov. Charlie Crist Tries To Weasel Away From His Endorsement Of The Stimulus – And, again, pandering to the Right in order to win a primary race means giving up your previous stated position and ideologies. How lovely.
- Armey throws Hoffman under the bus: ‘He didn’t pay enough attention to the local concerns.’ – With friends like Dick Armey …
- DKos’ Bill Sums The Whole Thing Up… – I guess plumbing trumps everything.
- strip for November / 04 / 2009: YHWH The Author – The picture at the bottom makes me very sad. And very angry.
- There’s logic, and then there’s creationist logic [Pharyngula] – Wow. Can you count the number of logic errors and fallacies in this? Hint: It’s more than the fingers of one hand.
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