Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- You could always ASK her – It’s like a mood ring. Only it lets guys pretend gals are in the mood. Swell.
- Best. Jon. Stewart. Evah. – It’s hard to send up someone who is a walking parody to begin with, but Stewart did a nice job with the Beck “homage”.
- The American Conservative » The Line of Pure Nastiness . . .
- Colo. Springs zoo searching for escaped otter – The Denver Post – Oops! Be safe, Kitchi!
- The arms deal that almost didn’t happen: Steve Benen
- Group wants “Confederate Southern American” recognized by the Government. – So is the next step to declare Lynching Parties to be culturally protected icons, denial of them to be the same as, well, a lynching party? Gimme a break.
- Just 10 days old and already being denied health insurance. – I wonder how Mr & Mrs Tracy felt about the ACA before Houston was born. I wonder how they feel about it now. The provision to cover their son is, unfortunately, several months away, but at least there's promise that future parents won't have to face this sort of "it's congenital therefore it's preexisting therefore coverage denied" bullshit.
- First-Ever National Study: Millions of People Rely on Library Computers for Employment, Health, and Education | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – But, remember, libraries are hoity-toity socialist collectivist budget holes that we can easily save money by cutting back hours or shuttering altogether. In the world of the Internet, who needs a library? Answer: people who need to access the Internet (among others) …
- Sharecropper Woman – Just a picture of a person. What was her life like? What were her dreams, her fears, her loves, her hates? How do people remember her … or does anyone? A portrait like this makes me want to know more.
- The prospect of recess appointments – On no! You Republicans will withhold bipartisan support of future Democratic legislation? Eek! Run! They’re threatening the nuclear option!
- RNC slaps away ‘civility’ outreach – “We’ll renounce violence and intimidation when we’re good and ready to.” Way to go, Party of Life and the Family! Jeez. Either these guys approve of what’s going on, or they’re afraid of standing up to the base they’ve already whipped into a frenzy. Neither speaks well of the GOP.
- Citing ‘irreversible damage,’ EPA nears veto of mountaintop removal permit. – Expect loud howls from the GOP and the mining company about the tyranny of the Democrats and the value of “clean coal.”
- These guys are dangerous nuts [Pharyngula] – See, I want to attack this guy's logic, but there's none to attack. The only thing left is to wonder why the "Law & Order!" Right aren't urging this guy be hauled off to jail (imagine, if you will, if this were some Lefty Loon urging this viz the War in Iraq) … unless they have no problem with the approach as long as it's directed toward their preferred target.
- Ben Dimiero: Pam Geller is outraged, and quite possibly color blind – Wait … is he wearing purple because he thinks he’s royalty? Or is he wearing purple to signal he’s all in with the Evil Unions? The two seem … contradictory. Or, wait … is he actually wearing purple at all?
- Murdoch Reveals Times Paywall: £1 Per Day From June – I certainly appreciate the need (let alone desire) to make money. That said, I just don’t see this being a big success.
- Slice of the musical pie – And guess which group screams the loudest about “piracy” and anything that threatens their profits …
- Faux-ny Towers: Cleverly Concealed Cellular Sites – I actually live near the cluster of small buildings at the bottom of the first set of photos, and used to drive past them every day on C470. I’ve also heard of them as disguised pump stations (and they do seem a bit low to the ground for cell “towers”).
- weather.com Disputed island disappears into sea – I’m sure someone out there will tout this as a reason why Global Warming, if it exists, is a “good” thing.
- Discarded photocopier hard drives stuffed full of corporate secrets – Making a note of this one for our security folks at the office …
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