Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither “Efficacious Or Medically Safe”: The Huffington Post News Team
- Steele: ‘Hell No, Coleman Won’t Concede To Franken’: Brian Beutler
- Craig Engler from SciFi talks Syfy – I still think it’s a stupid rebranding.
- ACLU offers to represent politician who wants an ACLUSUX vanity license plate – See, this is why I like the ACLU. They represent anyone. Which can be outrageous, but that’s the whole point.
- Texas is charging rape victims who cooperate with the police. – Well, Texas has always competed with Alaska over so many things …
- Since when do ignorance and prejudice win the day? Oh, wait…this is America….: Jack Cluth
- Here be dragons.* – Frankly, if they can really do all those things, we’re screwed anyway. 🙂
- Consider the anableps, how it sees – “The point of such examples, Jefferts Schori says, is to encourage the church to see itself with new eyes, stop bickering about finer points of doctrine, and get about the business of healing the sick, clothing the naked, and relieving the impoverished.” I do so like my Presiding Bishop.
- Elephants’ wings – A very nice allegory.
- Pedalternorotandomovens Centroculatus Articulosus – Very, very cool biology here.
- Facing the haters at Facebook | Adventures in IT – InfoWorld – As wacky (when not being hateful) as the Holocaust Deniers are, I think FB would be doing more harm than good to “ban” them.
- Wife Slapping OK
- Are The Most Common Fast Food Ingredients Actually Food? [Food-like Products] – Note that the list given is not the “ingredients” list, but a list of ingredients found in the most items at the most stores. Duh. You could probably find the same list in most people’s shopping carts at the grocery store.
- Goblin and Baby – 2009-04-21 – Teach the debate!
- The Font Snob: admin
- Harry Jackson: Carpetbagger?: Kyle
- Justice Dept. Finds Flaws in F.B.I. Terror List – NYTimes.com – I’m shocked, shocked, to discover that the watch list includes people for sketchy reasons and doesn’t include people who should be on there.
- Did gun control in Australia lead to more murders there last year? – Tossing this out here before the chain email shows up in my inbox.
- Oklahoma Passes a Ten Commandments Bill – I’m wondering how they can possibly claim there is “no religious purpose behind this” with a straight face.
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