Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Obama To Republicans: ‘You Had Ten Years’ To Focus On Health Care Costs — ‘What Were You Doing?’ (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire – Not only do they not have a coherent plan, their interest in doing something about the problem is clearly hand-waving distraction.
- CNN Regrets ‘Dept of Jihad?’ | Talking Points Memo – It should never have been there in the first place, but mild kudos for at least going through the apology motions.
- Clarence Thomas’ Revenge | Emptywheel – “Judges — not jailers — impose punishment.” What a maroon.
- Palin Defends Writing On Hand By Comparing Herself To God « Alan Colmes’ Liberaland – Wow. Y’know, if Obama pulled a quote from Isaiah out of context to defend something he’d done, the Right would be all over him like a cheap suit for being “arrogant” and “Messianic” and …
- An epitaph for CPAC – “CPAC is dead because they attacked WorldNetDaily, support gay marriage, and aren’t spending all their time questioning whether Obama was born in Kenya.” Wow. I’m almost tempted to send CPAC money. Almost.
- GayPolitics.com » Conservative California state senator comes out – And offers the lame excuse that he voted against gay rights all the time because his constituents expected him to “represent” them. Sorry, Roy, no “Profiles in Courage” award for you.
- CBN: Pat Robertson Comments About Chile Quake ‘Completely False’ | Christianpost.com – Pat Robertson wants you to know that HE NEVER SAID THESE OFFENSIVE THINGS. He only said those other offensive things. And they were just interpreted badly by EVIL ANTI-CHRISTIAN SECULARISTS. So there!
- Hilariously awesome. You must watch this. – Watching this, you consider whether to see it in the theaters or simply borrow someone’s DVD of it.
- Ultimate D&D-playing dungeon. And I do mean “ultimate.” – When I win a fortune from the lottery …
- Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love – Okay, so this may be the most cogent defense of web page ads I’ve seen. Though I’m still (selfishly) not turning off my ad blocker.
- After Telling Women, Gays How To Live, Oklahoma GOP Outraged At ‘Government Intervention’ In Divorces – “Government interference upon thee, but not upon me.”
- As Obama Nominees Languish, Committee Schedules Vote On Right-Wing McConnell Nominee – One would hope the Dems would have the balls to give as (badly) as they are being given on this. Besides the fact that it’s a bad nominee for the office.
- Democratic congresswoman proposes pay cut for members of Congress. – Of course, it’s largely symbolic — most Congresscritters are independently wealthy, and if they weren’t then all this would do would be to encourage some to seek more behind-closed-doors financial support. On the other hand, symbolism matters.
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