Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- 10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account – I think FB remains a useful way to reestablish contact with people who simply aren’t spending much time elsewhere on the Net. But don’t post anything there — no matter how private, sooper-sekrit, and hidden you might think it is — that you wouldn’t want some corporation, identity thief, or government agency finding somewhere. (That’s true for the Internet in general, but seems to be increasingly so for FB in particular.)
- I’ve Swallowed Too Much Oily Water – Money graf: “Yes, who better to help author industry regulations than the very businesses to be regulated. After all, those businesses are dedicated (and bound by fiduciary duty to their stockholders) to maximize profits, so there’s no conflict of interest there.” And, as noted, it’s not just the GOP guilty of letting the foxes regulate the henhouse …
- GOP House Candidate Who Served In The Military: Gays ‘Were Taken Care Of In Ways I Can’t Describe To You’ – You can tell a lot about a man by what he later peddles as just “a joke.”
- Enforcing labor laws – Money graf: “[O]ne of the most glaring changes from a Republican presidential administration to a Democratic one is the decision to start taking labor laws seriously.” Really, this sort of thing should be a no-brainer.
- 688-5: Questions and Answers: Just des(s)erts – Okay, I have to confess I had no idea this was actually a third noun, and that I was spelling it incorrectly all along. Though the metaphorical ties to the (wrong) form make that work, too, and it seems to be becoming the accepted way of writing it. Remarkable.
- 688-3: This week – Yaka-wow!
- Both sides in Arizona’s immigration debate use crime argument – Los Angeles Times – Are there criminals, smugglers, human traffickers, drug runners coming across the border? Sure. Which is why border patrols are so important. But harassing some guy walking down the street in Phoenix because he looks like he “might” be illegal doesn’t do diddlysquat to protect a county sheriff who stumbles onto a bunch of drug runners in the desert.
- Rep. Taylor Downplays Gulf Oil Disaster By Comparing It To Spilt ‘Chocolate Milk’ – Gosh. I sure hope Taylor’s assessment turns out to be closer to the truth than what, well, pretty much everyone else is predicting. We’ll see.
- Fun with Secret Questions – I like!
- Free-Range victory: The boy gets to bike to school! – Kymlee Is Awesome – I never did see any reference to any policy being actually identified. I remain appalled that it takes a special ruling from the school board to allow something so commonsensical.
- Palin calls oil spill ‘tragic’ and defends offshore drilling | McClatchy – Yeah, “I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry,” too. I also want a pony, and a rocket ship, and a million-zillion dollars.
- Suspicions – McClatchy | Cartoons
- Quote of the moment: Jonathan Weiner’s Pulitzer-winning explanation of mosquitoes developing immunity to DDT – Evolution in action.
- Cuccinelli Witch Project – The Republican War on Science marches on …
- Not resisting the urge to say; “WE TOLD YOU SO” any longer – Regulations add costs. Lack of regulations add costs, too, but in much bigger and more disastrous chunks. (Oh, and next time someone tells you that something is completely safe? Stand up and walk away …)
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