Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Coburn’s Chief Of Staff On Keeping Kids Away From Porn: ‘All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography’: Matt Corley
- Gov. Perry laughs off recession: ‘We’re in one?’ – Denialism continues to spread.
- Insurers’ pre-existing conditions include being a cop, expectant father, or having acne. – Bottom line: if they dig hard enough, they can always find something to deny you coverage. And if you cost them enough, they’ll dig hard enough.
- A $1,761 Postage Stamp: How The Glenn Beck Machine Constructed An Attack On Clean Energy Reform – The Big Lie self-evidently works. Repeat something outrageous often enough, despite corrections as to your facts from others, and other people will start to believe and pick it up. It’s grotesquely dishonest, and ultimately destructive to the Republic … “but, hey, as long as our side scores some points, it’s worth it.”
- Reagan and George H.W. Bush advisers defend presidential ‘czars.’ – Should the Senate be able to approve everyone who even advises the President? Does that include lobbyists?
- Valuable Lesson from the Values Voter Summit: Right’s Definition of Religious Liberty – It is certainly possible to construe the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution this way — but only if you’re a self-serving theocrat who very literally wants to Lord it over your fellow citizenry. No thanks.
- Rick Sanchez Calls Fox News Liars – I’d feel better about this excellent take-down of Fox’s self-serving lies, save for one thing: I disagree that the whole 9/12 foofoorah actually deserved the extensive coverage it was given by the various news networks.
- Foursquare: will it be bigger than Twitter? – Hmmm. I’m not sure I want to broadcast where I am all the time — but I suspect that is coming anyway. Interesting.
- The Politics of Reform and the Politics of Caution – Much of this seems simplistic and overgeneralized — in the specific, as each individual approaches theses issues slightly differently. As a general set of observations and conclusions, though, it rings mightily true.
- Hollywood wife lays in to Swedish men – The Local – Um … I iron. And sometimes cook meals. And take care of the kid for over 20 minutes at a stretch. And I consider my “faithfulness” to be my responsibility, not my wife’s (though I never turn down her efforts to keep me from wanting to “stray”).
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