Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Baucus And Conrad’s Miserable Health Care Reform Day – So let’s hear it for the fabulous negotiated bi-partisan bill that gave away so much of the store … and STILL didn’t get any bi-partisan support. (Psst … that’s because the GOP doesn’t want ANY health care bill to pass, Max, no matter how much you give them.)
- Democrat Jerrold Nadler Introduces “Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act”: Logan Murphy
- The Demonstrably Racist Rush Limbaugh: publius
- Limbaugh Cares About Hate Crimes Only When Whites Are Victims — Even If They’re Not Real Hate Crimes: Amanda Terkel
- Court rules that KBR employee’s gang rape wasn’t a personal injury ‘arising in the workplace.’ – I truly hope KBR — and the employees in question — are nailed to the frelling wall on this one.
- Is Armstrong Williams Trying to Kill Rifqa Bary?: Kyle
- This toothpaste is designed to knock you unconscious – Um … well, it would also encourage you to brush your teeth before bed, so that’s a good thing. But … no, I don’t think so.
- 10 Beautiful Green Grass Wallpapers For Your Desktop – Ooh. They’d likely work on blogs, Twitter, etc., too.
- Capturing What the GDP Can’t – Using GDP as the primary measure of how well an economy is doing is sort of like using credit card debt as a measure of how wealthy someone is.
- Syntax Samples of “Cascading HTML Style Sheets” (CHSS), a 1994 Work in Progress Predating Today’s CSS: Philipp Lenssen
- 47 Ways to Fine Tune Your Brain – I do pretty much all of these, though some of them not often enough. I do like #7 … it’s something I tend to do naturally. Also: 47!
- The absolute best picture describing Web 2.0 and Social Media – Yup.
- Review: Opera Mini 5 beta: New UI, tabs, copy and paste, better font rending – Not planning on installing the beta, but I’ll undoubtedly install the new version once released.
- Will Bunch: Drudge, Limbaugh, and the Sad Return of “Racial America” – “I don’t believe that allegations of racism should be tossed out lightly, and I’ve cautiously watched this narrative unwind over the past couple of weeks. Today, there can be no doubt.”
- Prayers to end hateful rhetoric – But … but … they’re furriners … we’re supposed to hate, despise, mistrust, and mistreat them!
- Joe Wilson’s Son Alan: Dad Isn’t Racist: The Huffington Post News Team
- “It wasn’t that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations.” (Larry Page, 2003): Philipp Lenssen
- Late Night: Darwin Bio Too Controversial a Film for US, Say Distributors – SIGH
- Is Getting Assaulted By Your Husband a Pre-Existing Condition? [The Primate Diaries] – The invisible, yet violent, hand of the marketplace.
- Fight back against health insurance lies
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Thanks for the link to The Primate Diaries. Hopefully we can get serious about health care and such outrageous pre-existing conditions will be as preposterous to our kids as using the poor for medical experimentation is for us today.
One can but hope.