Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Missing from healthcare reform: the autopsy [Neuron Culture] – Well, clearly docs and hospitals have a financial disincentive to do many of them (both because of the cost and because it could reveal mistakes), and families naturally don’t want some doc carving up Granma after she’s gone …
- A New Calendar Can Solve World Problems, Says Galactic Research Institute [Paranormality] – Wow — those are very pretty charts.
- Keeping Us Safe
- L’esprit De L’escalier – If I had a nickel for every time …
- Michael Savage’s flagship station drops him. – I’ve no doubt he’ll find some other well-paying rock to crawl under.
- Despite Calling ‘Death Panels’ Illogical ‘Hysteria’ Last Month, National Review Promotes Them On New Cover: Matt Duss
- Just four GOP senators applaud when Obama calls ‘death panels’ a ‘lie.’ – Why would they applaud someone contradicting the talking points they explicitly or implicitly support?
- Rifqa Bary: A Schaivo-Like Controversy in the Making? – I’ve little doubt that this will make for a fine “rally the troops!” cause celebre — regardless of the truth of the matter or what’s best for the girl (let alone “family values” and “parental control” issues).
- Evan Handler: Have You No Decency, Sir? At Long Last, Have You No Sense of Decency? – “Why wouldn’t Americans want the same? If they do want it, why are these things being kept from them? Maybe a more pertinent question today is, why are they being encouraged and instructed to fear this kind of progress on the part of their government, which every other advanced nation’s government in the world has already long embraced?”
- Masters of the Universe Movie Is Canceled… BOOYAH – I frankly don’t care one way or the other, but the author certainly does.
- Real Life Comic strip for September / 07 / 2009 – Yeah, see, this is why I never ask Margie for money for these sorts of things.
- Make History with the National September 11th Memorial & Museum – A very cool idea — and an remarkable use of crowdsourcing visual information to record an historic event.
- Liberals Crank Up Heat, Send Obama Another Letter Demanding Meeting – I want us to try our damnedest for the public option. Something without it may be a fallback position, but we shouldn’t start by falling back.
- En Tequila Es Verdad: Obama’s Reform Speech: The Good, the Bad, and the Absolutely Fucking Ridiculous – Some folks are feeling optimistic.
- Cantor Unable To Name Any ‘Compromises’ Republicans Are Willing To Make On Health Care Reform – Why should they compromise when so many Dems are willing to give most of it away?
- Palin Invokes 9/11 To Attack Obama – Um, when do we get to stop listening to her? Isn’t her 15 minutes up?
- Huckabee’s Health Care Reform Solution: Start Over – As John Adams sings in 1776, “You see, we piddle, twiddle, and resolve· Not one damn thing do we solve.”
- Maine: Religious Right Barring the Media From Their Anti-Marriage Rally – “Of the money raised by the Religious Right groups fighting marriage equality in the state, the amount that came from actual residents of Maine constituted a mere .1%”
- 410 – Manifest Density: Three Dutch Megacities – “Full” is relative – I recall a lot rural space in the Netherlands during my trip there.
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