Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- She Has No Head! – Psylocke: This Is Not The Ninja You’re Looking For… | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources – Makes me glad I gave this one a pass. I was a Psylocke fan from way back … and between putting her through eleventy-dozen backstory meat grinders, and now stripping her down (so to speak) of even a bit of ethnic uniqueness … yeesh.
- MIT analysis backs Obama – Mike Allen – POLITICO.com
- Inhofe Trashes Military Generals Who Advocate For Clean Energy Legislation: They Crave ‘The Limelight’ – Just imagine if Democratic Senator trashed some generals who were speaking out on military priorities as simply seeking the “limelight.” No doubt he or she would be pilloried by the Right for disrespecting our entire armed services. I don’t expect to see that happen to Inhofe, oddly enough.
- Tom Gauld is a source of inspiration – Now I just want to rip off the idea for a story …
- The Alien Autopsy – Yeah, I remember this special … and how much hoopla (in all senses) there was about it.
- It’s Twue, It’s Twue! – It is very true.
- Black Friday : The Terrible Movie [Letsmakeamovie] – Okay, I understand wanting a deal. Really. But … there’s nothing I so terribly want that is so substantially affordable for which I feel compelled to line up, in the pre-dawn darkness, in front of a Toys ‘R’ Us. What is wrong with me?
- Talking to the layfolk [Stoat] – There are a number of fine lines being trod here. Appeal to authority — even when it’s “consensus of the scientific community” authority — is rarely satisfying and arguably dubious. On the other hand, the “authority” is that for a reason, and ought to be given the benefit of the doubt, even if there are dissenters within the scientific community (analysis of the validity of that dissent being, itself, a worthy subject of study). Ultimately, though, the nature of democracy, right or wrong, is that people have to be convinced to vote a certain way. Assuming that being a highly credentialed expert in a field, and being supported by other highly credentialed experts in the field, will automatically garner a vote in an era that for the last 45 years has been characterized by skepticism both rational and irrational … is a really unwise assumption.
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