Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The fifty states are hurting economic recovery : The New Yorker – There are aspects of federalism that I think are quite valuable. But friction and inertia in overall governance is a two-edged sword — it helps restrain both bad ideas and good ones.
- LEADING GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO ATTEND BIRTHER CONFERENCE! – Wonderful.
- “So at the end of the conversation … with Sergeant Crowley, there was discussion about he and I and Professor Gates having a beer here in the White House. We don’t know if that’s scheduled yet …” – And, honestly, getting folks together for a beer at the White House sounds like it could resolve a lot of disagreements.
- Here’s The Law Gates Was Accused Of Breaking: Alan
- Wisconsin Book Burner Makes His Case – And just as intelligently and coherently as you might imagine.
- Face of Christian Angel Uncovered in Famous Mosque – Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News – FOXNews.com – Cool. Though, heck, if they go another layer down, they’re probably just as likely to find a Roman pagan mosaic.
- Sir, You’re Becoming Disorderly – “Disorderly conduct” laws are, indeed, basically an excuse to make a discretionary arrest. They might as well be called “give me an excuse, punk” laws.
- Secessionist Gov. Rick Perry Threatens To Invoke 10th Amendment To Reject Health Care Reform – Maybe we should be encouraging him to secede.
- Destroying beauty because you can afford it – Unfortunately, some folks do look on it with admiration — or, more accurately, envy, and a desire to be able to do the same. Of course, come the Revolution …
- Christian Company Receives Brilliant Smackdown from a Polite Atheist – Agreed on the qualities of the response. The web firm sort of missed the point of the whole Good Samaritan parable.
- Comic-Con: Tron 2 Retitled TRON Legacy; IMAX 3D; Concept Art and New Scene Revealed – Ooooh, purty …
- Hat Fail – HA!
- Coffee break for police turns into front-row seat for break-in – The Denver Post – Timing is everything.
- Debunking Canadian health care myths – The Denver Post – Another fine take-down of the “It’s EVIL SOCIALISM and PEOPLE ARE DYING RIGHT AND LEFT” accusations. Not surprisingly, lots and lots of comments, many of which restate those very accusations.
- Feds put Denver, Ft. Collins on serious list – The Denver Post – I guess this is a backhanded complement. There are certainly a lot of things to see and do here, yes, but they aren’t going to necessarily cause people to play hooky or end conference sessions early so that everyone can run off to the gambling tables or theme parks. Though we do have gambling tables and theme parks in the vicinity.
- Scientists Make LED Bulbs From Salmon DNA – Sounds like something Warren Ellis would come up with. Of course, then he’d write about vast underground fish farms and how the DNA is extracted from the salmon with a maximum of exploding guts by soulless corporate hacks who are beginning to experiment on what colors they can extract from human DNA …
- iPhone security “broken” – business users take note – Our company security people already excluded the iPhone for the business because of other security issues. The Blackberry isn’t as sexy, but …
- YouTube – Alice In Wonderland Official Teaser Trailer (HD) 720p – Oooooh … nice!
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