Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Victory For Location Privacy in New York GPS Tracking Case: jennifer
- David Beckmann: The President’s 2010 Budget: A Transition to New Priorities: David Beckmann
- Cheney Whacks EFCA, Labor Welcomes Him As Spokesman: The Huffington Post News Team
- Hiding Behind Partisanship: Andrew Sullivan
- Jesse Ventura: Coleman A “Hypocrite,” Offers To Waterboard Cheney (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team
- House Republicans: Look How Many Layoffs We Helped Create: Ryan Powers
- R.I.P. Comic Book Stores – That’ll be sad, but … yeah, it’s pretty clearly coming for most places.
- Walking Dead Compendium One – I’ve been collecting this in the smaller 6-issue trades, and it’s an excellent, excellent book — focusing on what it means to be human, with zombies as an ironic background.
- Medicare fund dry in 8 years: Trustees
- On Politics: G.O.P. Worries About Sounding a Negative Tone – “Terror! Socialism! Abortion! Crime! Drugs! Immigrants! Gays! Fascism! 9/11! No! Not! Never!” Gee, can’t imagine why they come across as negative.
- Scientists put psychic’s paranormal claims to the test | Science | guardian.co.uk – Science is keen! (via Les)
- Be Prepared… For Some Womanly Advice – Ha!
- Fox Condemns Sykes’s Act: If A Talk Radio Host Compared Obama To A Terrorist, He Would Be Fired – I disagree heartily with wishing someone would die of kidney failure. That said, Morris and Hannity are hypocritical asses.
- US elected to UN rights council – The UNHRC has its own problems, but better to be there and engaged than to leave in a snit. Elections matter.
- The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation [Urban Futurism] – Very, very cool.
- The Union of Church and State Hurts Both – I’m not likely to invest an hour in this (too many videos, too little time), especially since I agree wholeheartedly with the proposition. History shows us conclusively that when church and state are mingle, or the state does the church’s work and the church does the state’s work, both institutions suffer. One of the geniuses of our Constitution is that we’ve significantly (compared to Europe) avoided that, hence the relative health and robustness of religion in the US vs, say, England.
- Problems with the Year of the Bible Resolution – Does the Bible actually need a commemorative year for it? Will it make the faithful love and adhere to it any better, or those who disbelieve suddenly come to change their mind? Of course not — it’s politics, triumphalism, and rudeness, all in a tawdry little package.
- Atheist Teacher vs. Christian Student – I concur with (and am impressed by) Mehta here — a shame, because the kid and his parents are pretty poor actors in the piece as well. But being a teacher, especially in a public school context, is more than being “provocative” or “speaking the truth” — it’s about encouraging learning. Corbett’s comments, true or not, were not appropriate to that goal.
- Janet Porter Plays the Victim, Literally – “Special rights for me, but not for thee.”
- OpenOffice 3.1 is available – Making a note to update the machines (Katherine, Jim & Ginger) have have this.
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