Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The sad teleprompter joke – It’s the Big Lie — repeat it often enough, and people will believe it (and the spin given with it).
- Torture-memo authors avoid sanctions – Unfortunate.
- Do Toy Guns Turn Kids into Killers? – Neither toy guns nor pretending to be shooting with fingers and sticks turn kids into killers. At least it didn’t happen to me and my friends.
- The 1956 Republican Party Platform : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – A delightful (and terrifying) demonstration of how the GOP (and the country) have lurched far to the Right. Any Republican (let alone a Democrat) who tried to run on these principles today would be labeled a tree-hugging socialist.
- PERRspectives: The Bush 400 – I don’t mind people earning money, even vast sums of it. I do think that provides a social obligation to provide a disproportionate part of that money back to the commonwealth.
- Why should we believe the earth is round, just because scientists say so? – Look out! It’s Globalgate!
- Annals of global warming: Columbia Glacier, Alaska (by James Blalog) – The Denialists will no doubt blame ACORN or something, hand-wave it aside, and go along their merry way toward a warmer future.
- Does Tiger Woods Owe You An Apology? – That’s pretty much the size of it.
- Health Insurance Premiums Jump – and Remind Us Why We Need Reform – The for-profit insurance industry loves thumbing its nose as its “customers” — and gets away with it 99% of the time.
- Pam’s House Blend:: Utah Bill Equates Miscarriages With Criminal Homicide- REALLY. – So if you’ve have a miscarriage and it’s charged that it happened because you were “reckless” (which means, I suppose, whatever the DA and judge and jury decide it means), you can be tossed in jail. Wonderful.
- Life before Google – So true.
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Thanks for sharing the “unblogged bits”! I forwarded the Blalog talk link to the professor teaching my seminar (title: The Anthropocene (we’re a geology department)) and he was as wowed by the visuals as I was.
Keep blogging “unblogged bits”!
You’re more than welcome, Karen. Glad they serve a purpose higher than just my laziness. 😉