Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- All Hail Iron Baby – And at least he has diapers!
- Ever Wonder What a Gelatinous Cube Sounds Like? – That’s … okay, I can go with that.
- Quiz: Could YOU become a citizen? | Need to Know | PBS – I got 95% (I missed one on geography). Woo-hoo! I can be a US citizen!
- Top 10 Greatest Food Combinations – Of all of these, it’s the last that I’m really not wowed by. At least not in a dunking kind of fashion.
- Outrage of The Week: Is This Really “Abuse”? Only To Deluded Judge – Based on this, most parents could, at some time or another, be convicted of child abuse or worse. Disgusting.
- Christianity and Conservatives – I linked to the original post Mike Lux made (http://bit.ly/dts5Ux); here are some of the, um, intellectually curious responses he got, trying to prove how Jesus really supported capitalism, the free market, and the rich.
- Former Bush Adviser: ‘Republicans Are So Far Out Of Step’ On ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ – I really hope this eventually bites the GOP in the butt — but I doubt it will, at least directly.
- Chris Columbus Enables Neil Jordan’s Adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ | /Film – Woot!
- “Obama’s Katrina”? Sure, in the trivial sense of… – Right — it’s the environmentalists fault because the only place the oil companies could convinced the public to drill (because it was far enough away to seem safe) was in deep water. If only we let them drill in our back yard, the damage would be limited … to our back yard. Right.
- Eat More Salt Or Your Food Will Taste Like Damp Dog Hair – A lot of this really does have to do with processed foods, which is what the processed food industry really wants to keep people from noticing.
- Where’s the oil? Right Wing pundits dismissed spill. – “No we didn’t! It’s … um … look, ACORN!”
- ‘Serves him right’ – Money graf: “At this point, the discourse seems to boil down to a) those who want to see the president don a wetsuit and head to the Gulf floor; b) those who want to see the president don a cape and fly around the planet really quickly in order to reverse time; and c) those who want to see the president pound on podiums and lose his cool, as if that would make a difference.”
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100%, but it says there are different sets of questions.
Yeah, it sounds like it randomizes to 20 questions amidst many. And the actual test, it sounds like, is of 10 questions (needing 6 to pass).
BBC radio 4 did a piece on the US peoples response to the Government response of the oil. Apparently one ‘Merkin said he didn’t understand what was stopping Obama because “The US Coastguard has guns, BP doesn’t”. Not quite sure what he thought military intervention would achieve. Anybody able to throw some insight onto this?
If it can’t be done with guns, it’s not worth doing?
No idea. Americans have kind of an odd concept of Government — it can Do Anything, which means it could Solve Anything We Want It To, but it could also be An Awful Tyrant if we let it do anything. It’s, sadly, a very paternalistic model that swings between adoration of the father figure and rebellion against it.