Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Paul Begala: Yes, National Review, We Did Execute Japanese for Waterboarding – Lest we forget. Unless this is what’s being remembered by folks who are concerned that they might be next at the dock.
- Scrap This Abortion Debate and Start Over — Politics Daily – A “solution” that would make the populace satisfied and the activists on both side unhappy. Interesting. Of course, nobody can actually make any changes in the law without activists from one side or the other driving it.
- Just Imagine: The First 100 Days of John McCain — Politics Daily – An interesting thought exercise.
- He Never Moved – And people say I’m a creature of habit.
- James Gunn’s Greatest Horror Tale Yet: Working for Microsoft: orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com)
- The Neuroscience of Illusion: jason@kottke.org
- Frank Sharry: Gillibrand vs. the Minutemen: The New Politics of Immigration as Senate Begins Debate: Frank Sharry
- RJ Eskow: The “Beautiful Kidnapper” and Other Simple Responses to Torture Arguments: RJ Eskow
- GOP Stripped Flu Pandemic Preparedness From Stimulus: The Huffington Post News Team
- Neocarbon – It’s not so much their rhetorical goofiness, but that it has real and negative effects on everyone around them, today and for decades to come.
- The Australian antivax movement takes its toll – Money graf: “It’s that simple. Vaccinate your kids. The life you save may be your own child’s, and it may very well be the life of a child of some other parent who doesn’t have the choice you have.”
- Weird science meets ancient cosmic blobs and Stephen Colbert – Ars Technica – Part of a longer article, but fascinating view of how what you bring to an argument colors what you find in it. And I know people who like Colbert a lot more than Stewart largely because of this.
- Working Across The Aisle – Some interesting info here. And I’m sometimes surprised by some of the bipartisan rhetoric I occasionally hear — evidently sincerely — from some of the folks with the most highly perceived partisan background.
- Chuck Palahniuk – Heh. “And the only reason we have blogs is so that we don’t have to ask.”
- Utah fails to condemn Satan, aka the Democratic party – Could it be …. SAAAATan?
- New GOP torture meme: Dems’ fault. – Granted that (1) the GOP (which never lost its veto-proof minority in the Senate, even after it lost the majority which it (2) had held for most of the Bush Administration, and that the Administration (3) both branded as traitor anyone who dared question its actions and (4) defied Congress on anything of substance that it did do about this (as the article notes) … it is still shameful that the Democrats, whether minority or majority, did in fact cave on so many issues beyond occasional rhetorical flourishes. So, yes, the Republicans have a point here, while still remaining fundamentally responsible for the whole furshlugginer mess.
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