Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Free stickers from CREDO Action – Regardless of my opinion of the effort, I find it tremendously heartening that gays want to be counted in the census as such — that, in fact, they don’t mind if the census — the federal government, fergoshsakes — ends up with the names and address of gays across the nation (if their effort to get sexual orientation onto the 2020 census succeeds). I’m actually not kidding — that demonstrates how very, very far we’ve come as a nation.
- weird_comic.jpg – Very, very cool. I’d be tempted by a poster of this myself.
- VIDEO: Inside The 16-Hour Flight From Hell – And why did this happen? Someone at Virgin America didn’t want to spend some money one way or another.
- Ready to Launch – Space Shuttley coolness.
- 15 Noteworthy Websites That Changed the Internet – I don’t do enough music to be able to agree on Pandora, but I concur with Fracture that IMDB should be on the list. The rest — yuppers.
- Vatican sees bid to tarnish Church amid abuse row – The Church only harms its image by whining about conspiracy theories and pointing fingers at other institutions where sexual abuse takes place. If they seemed to be acting vigorously, righteously, and determinedly to determine the truth and act against the guilty, rather than obfuscate, bluster, and wrap themselves in entitled piety, they’d be teaching a much better moral lesson and doing a lot more to restore the more-than-tarnished image of the Vatican. Might I recommend to the Pope a review of how Tylenol took care of their “recall”?
- Major legislative breakthroughs are always controversial – Money graf: “Major change is always scary and controversial initially, until it becomes law and Americans realize the fears were unfounded. There’s every reason to believe the same will be true with the current reform proposal.”
- Could moon rocket demise bring space shuttle reprieve? – space – 16 March 2010 – New Scientist – The choice, I suppose, is who we want to rely on to get people into space, sooner or later.
- The Associated Press: Honda to recall 410,000 vehicles for brake problem – Toyota’s not the only one with trouble …
- IKEA planning fall 2011 opening in Colorado – The Denver Post – On the one hand, WOOT! On the other hand … 18 freaking months! I could assemble the store faster than that!
- Re-Branding the Prune: lisa
- Franken describes nominating breakdown as ‘nuts’: Steve Benen
- Eric Boehlert: Right-wing blogger attacks leukemia patient; lies about her medical expenses – The “have you no shame” question keeps getting answered with a resounding NO.
- Desperate times call for desperate rhetoric – Money graf: “If Dem lawmakers don’t notice the fear behind the Republican hysterics this week, they’re just not paying attention.”
- This is CNN? – Yet another reason to eschew CNN’s punditry programs (most of which aren’t worth watching on any channel anyway).
- Why talking to conservatives is exasperating – “In a normal, sensible debate, one side might make a provocative claim. The other side can challenge the claim, and provide evidence. If it’s proven false, the first side moves on to some other claim. Lather, rinse, repeat. But that’s not how Republicans work. They make claims that aren’t true, and after being corrected, either repeat those claims again anyway, pretend the matter is subjective, or both.” This isn’t exclusively a trait of the Right, but it’s sure been most visible there of late.
- The IOKIYAR Rule, procedural edition – I don’t necessarily trust either side to be unbiased with the procedures needed to get the HCR bills passed — but I’d certainly urge a minimum of procedural jiggery-pokery, even if the GOP are being flaming hypocrites for objecting to it, if only because it will got to court for adjudication, possibly up to the Supremes, and who knows how some of those yo-yos will come down on the question.
- Islam is a weakling’s religion [Pharyngula] – Honor stems from what you are and what you do, not from what other people think of you. The Prophet is no more honorable for all the folks who treat him with courtesy, and no less for all the folks who treat him with disdain. To pretend otherwise is to pretend to have power over the Prophet’s honor, which, in fact, dishonors him, doesn’t it?
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