Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- House Democrats start Reconciliation on Monday. It’s about Time.: tlw3
- Horsetail Firefall – “LET THE FIRE FALL …” except that it’s the sunset, so it’s even prettier (and safer).
- Beat The “Four Square” Dealership Ripoff – A good article to read as we edge closer toward buying a new car …
- Panera First To Go Nationwide With Posting Calorie Info On Menus – Good on them!
- About that earmark ‘ban’ – “Majority earmarks for me, but not for thee.”
- City Removes Spanish-Language Census Sign After ‘Angry’ Citizens And Lawmakers Raise A Fuss – No, no racism here at all. Just self-defeating lingual nationalism.
- Tell me where I put the book tape – This sounds eerily familiar.
- Closer to sentencing sanity: Steve Benen
- Looking longingly to Joe McCarthy – Money graf: “the fact that some on the right look back at McCarthyism as a good is a reminder of just how far gone some of these clowns really are.”
- Invoking Intolerance: Religious Right Throws Fit Over Islamic Prayer In Virginia « The Wall of Separation – “State expressions of religious faith for me, but not for thee.”
- ‘Under God’ Upheld: Appeals Court Says Pledge Is Patriotic, Not Religious « The Wall of Separation – To me, a telling point about whether it’s “religious” or not is that there are religious political commentators who explicitly throw “Under God” (and “In God We Trust”) up as proof that we are, in fact, a Christian nation. Whatever reasons Congress may have had for adding those words in 1954, they are in fact used as state religion by some.
- Rove Is ‘Proud’ Of Waterboarding, But Falsely Claims It Was More ‘Constrained’ Than SERE Training – I’m sure Rove is “proud” of a lot of reprehensible things he’s done.
- Homosexual activist, ACLU shut down senior prom – And in another glimpse of cloud-cuckoo land, we see that the the cancellation of the prom is ALL THE EVIL GAY PERSON’S FAULT (plus, of course, the ACLU). If only she’d been willing to bring a boy as a date, there wouldn’t be any problem. Yeesh.
- Another social conservative bites the dust – Ha! I knew the Hard Right ‘d turn on McDonnell in a heartbeat. Now let’s see how he turns around and tries to woo them back again.
- Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on LGBT equality — and the wave of hate spreading across Africa – Go, Desmond, go!
- Glenn Beck Knows That The Maoists In The WH Are Getting Secret Messages From That Communist Woody Guthrie. Huh? – Glenn’s skipping his meds again. Crikey.
- Innocent man helped by Gitmo Attorney: the case Liz Cheney doesn’t want you to read about – Conor Friedersdorf – Metablog – True/Slant – Money quote: “Mr. al-Rabiah was thought to be innocent after a year. He sat in a cage in Cuba for eight years. Did giving him a lawyer hurt the War on Terror? Did his release make Americans less safe. It is absurd to say so. Ms. Cheney, Mr. Kristol, Mr. Thiessen and Mr. McCarthy have no answer to someone like Mr. al-Rabiah, and so they pretend that people like him do not exist.”
- The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy – A very solid takedown of the loathesome “lawyers who represented the Gitmo terrorists are traitors” argument making the rounds. Money quote: McCarthy strangely overlooks the basic fact that much of the litigation for the Guantanamo detainees concerns whether they are in fact the enemy. McCarthy presupposes that we all know that all the folks at Gitmo are terrorists, and the only issue is whether we feel like helping them knowing that it hurts America. But like the soldiers at the Boston Massacre, and like other criminal defendants, the Guantanamo detainees are ‘the accused.'” That’s the key: the Bush Administration’s presumption of guilt — if they are in Gitmo or are identified by someone as enemy combatants, then case closed — distorted the whole process. Being accused does not, in reality, mean you are what you are accused of. That’s what the whole legal process is about.
- The international war over exit signs – I saw my first example of the “running man” exit sign here in the States back in January at an airport. Makes perfect sense to me.
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Or, you know, just go through th Costco and not even deal with regualr dealer crap….the fleet guys are way cooler.
True enough, and the way we bought the van. I don’t recall Subarus being offered thru fleet discounts, which is why we did things a bit more conventionally with that car.
Nope, they do…well…at least the did, it was through the one near you, no idea since it changed ownership.