Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Kristol Urges No Trial For Hasan: ‘They Should Just Go Ahead And Convict Him And Put Him To Death’ – Disgusting.
- Tancredo says he ‘fully intends to run’ for governor of Colorado. – “Tancredo” … that sounds like a foreign name, if you ask me …
- Bogus Bill In Boston: Religious Right Targets Mass. Public Schools | The Wall of Separation – Because you can’t have religious freedom if you can’t force someone to listen to you talk about your religion. I’m sure Jefferson or Madison or one of those guys said that.
- Awaiting Red State’s Next Spin-Off: Filibuster Them – “Confirm ours. Filibuster yours.” It’s all a power game on the Right. “Principled opposition” has nothing to do with it.
- The Religious Right’s Noticeable Silence – Surreptitious abortion insurance coverage for me, but not for thee.
- DeMint: Gov’t Can’t Redefine Marriage Because it’s a Religious Institution – I’d be willing to see “marriage” return to being solely a religious institution. Which means remove it from the courts, the tax codes, the laws, everything. Civil society can then decide on with a civil institution — we’ll call it “unions” — should be supported or recognized in some fashion, in a constitutionally equitable fashion of equal protection under the law. Of course, one could also take DeMint’s ludicrous legal analysis and conclude the law has nothing to say about religious-inspired polygamy, marriage to children, incestuous marriage, or any other variation that some religious institution has chosen to follow. Unless, of course, he’s claiming that it’s only some religions that get to dictate what sort of marriage the state should allow.
- Microsoft Patent Application for ‘sudo’?
- A moral conundrum, resolved with scripture [Pharyngula] – So not only is it apparently a moral imperative to turn Jews over to the Nazis if asked where they’re hiding, if the Jews are executed then clearly that’s what God had in mind for them. Well, I suppose that’s one approach to the “Problem of Evil” …
- American Muslims To Fort Hood Shooter: ‘Thanks A Lot, Asshole’ | The Onion – Art imitates life.
- A fine example of Christian tolerance for other faiths. – Yeah, it’s yahoos like the ones in the video here who make it hard to argue that Christians aren’t all intolerant bigots, hateful zealots, spoiled children who think national religions domination is a zero-sum game, and country bumpkins who couldn’t hold an intelligent political conversation if was graven on stone tablets for them. I mean … what is all this supposed to mean? Do they think that the hate crimes bill made what they just did illegal, so they’re thumbing their noses at “wicked Obama”? Not to sound like I’m invoking the No True Scotsman fallacies, but these guys aren’t following any flavor of Christianity I’d be inclined to follow (and, I’m sure, vice-versa).
- Things you learn listening to Right Wing Radio – While Tom Tancredo seems utterly unelectable, given his incredible idiocy — stranger things have happened. And he was an incredible idiot when he was being (re)elected as my (gack) US Rep. So I hate to see him actually getting anywhere close to a political race, on the off chance that he might actually win.
- What Works | Newsweek.com (Weight Loss) – This article is old, but Margie just forwarded it to me — “proof the Geek Diet [calorie counting] works.”
- How to mix an ancient cocktail – CultureLab – New Scientist – I think we may skip this theme for Margie Gras.
- Drink culture: it’s as old as the hills – CultureLab – New Scientist – “Rather than the root of all evil, alcohol is the root of all that makes us human: art, music, religion and other aspects of our culture all got their start in palaeolithic binge-drinking.” It certainly encourages breaking into song …
- Plastic-hardening chemical makes men soft – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist – I’m pretty sure this stuff will end up being banned / phased out within the next five years.
- BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Who are the furries? – As one commenter notes (re the publicity given to furries due to a recent murder conspiracy trial), nobody would be doing exposes of the philately scene if the defendents had met because of a shared stamp collecting interest.
- Stupid Ideas Are Still Stupid Even When Amazon Does Them – That seems … like a bad idea. In some ways, it’s akin to compilers of data that put in a trivial false item (a fake word in the dictionary, a bogus White Pages entry) to spot if someone is wholesale copying their text. But those items aren’t actually used by people (except, maybe, Scrabble aficionados and telemarketers). Changing the words in a book, even to clear synonyms, is a bad idea.
- The X-Men Cartoon Opening, Psylocked – I love the Rogue wink. That said, I’m pretty familiar with the 90s X-Men cartoon, and this seems to be a very separately animated work.
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