Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Protecting kids from gay penguin unions – But think of the penguin children!
- Tanya Gold: It wasn’t singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain’s Got Talent so much as our reaction to her | Comment is free | The Guardian – As much as I enjoyed her performance (before, during, and after), I was, honestly, shocked that folks were not only negative about her from the get-go, but assumed that negativity was the norm. That’s just wrong.
- Police delete London tourists’ photos ‘to prevent terrorism’ | UK news | guardian.co.uk – I’d really like to visit London again some day. But … it’s not looking promising at the moment.
- Stupid Evil Bastard: “Astro Boy” trailer hits the net. – Cool. I might actually go see this with Kitten.
- Study links swimming pool chlorine to asthma – The Irish Times – Fri, Apr 17, 2009 – Interesting. Of course, swimming is generally a positively healthy thing, and chlorine almost certainly has positive health benefits. An example of how there is no such thing as a naturally “healthy” state of nature.
- Fighting Pirates: Done by Union Workers: John Amato
- Eloping couple executed by firing squad [Greg Laden’s Blog] – Sigh.
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As to the Susan Boyle things: You have at least watched one ep of American Idle, right? It’s like hours of pain and then there may be one almost good singer. Susan Boyle would be like havinf a ringer in there when the judges and the audience were expecting more crap becuase that is how the show is set up….so, I am thinking the article is a bit off target since the game is framed that way from the get go.
About the Taliban: It amazes me there are people in this country who think a Christian theocracy would operate much differently than a Muslim theocracy.
@BD: Re Susan Boyle — no, I’ve not watch any “American Idol” (though I know what it’s about; I simply have other things to do with my life).
I found the clip really cool on her, less so on the judges (who seemed to give phony and flash a new name), and the less said about the audience, the better.
Not that I expect it to make any difference in the world of music.
@Paul: But they’d be *our* kind of religious nuts, not furriner religious nuts. They’d kill the immoral for Christ, not Allah … which makes all the difference the world, of course, except perhaps for the “immoral.”