Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Is Sprint Making Money Off Of Your Text Message Donations? – Look — a great reason not to give your business to Sprint!
- Mom-made vintage game sweaters from the 80s – Fun!
- Boston cops: citizen recording of abusive busts is “illegal wiretapping” – And cops wonder why citizens don’t trust them.
- Lying for skepticism – This is, if done correctly, very cool.
- Know Your Godless Heathen Positions – A useful set of definitions.
- If It’s War You Want… – A good point. We’re not fighting a “War on Terror” to kill terrorists, or even just to protect our lives — but to preserve our society. Which means protecting the rule of law vigorously.
- Steele Claims He ‘Wasn’t Chairman Of The Party’ At The Time Ensign’s Sex Scandal ‘Took Place’: Matt Corley
- Palin’s Tea Party Revolution Will Be Televised – Well, that list of media outlets tells you about all you need to know.
- Reactions To Robertson – Well, at least he’s drawing the other kooks out of the woodwork (and making some others step away from it).
- The Pat Robertson Thing: Aunt B.
- Online scammers try to hijack Haiti donation bandwagon – Yeah, I’d call this evil.
- The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade – Lot of very prominent ones here — some I’m still amazed are under 10 years old.
- Errors and lies thrive in cold weather – New Scientist – Excellent money graf: HERE’S the question to put to all those who confidently declare that the recent severe winter conditions prove that global warming is nonsense: “Next time there’s a heatwave in summer or an unusually mild spell in winter, will you publicly accept that the ‘warmists’ were right all along? If not, why not? If a cold snap means the climate is getting colder, surely a spell of hot weather proves it is getting warmer?”
- The Cat got Peugeot’s Tongue – I miss the tongue on the logo.
- Have Americans Stopped Getting Fatter? – Unfortunately, what is true for the general population isn’t true for the specific individual (e.g., me).
- FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Divorce Rates Higher in States with Gay Marriage Bans – So the best way to strengthen the institution of marriage among straights is to allow gay marriage? Yeah, I realize correlation is not causation, but it can be amusing nonetheless. (Resubmitting this because it didn’t reroute to my blog properly.)
- Earthquake in Haiti – The Big Picture – Boston.com
- Pat Robertson Was Right, Haiti IS ‘Cursed’ – Wherein Pat backtracks his rationale for the earthquake, and we learn who the Real Great Satan is.
- Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian | The Onion – You know, there are treatments for that …
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