Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Empire State Building Sticks with Mother Theresa Snub – So failing to provide (voluntarily) an honor is, to Bill Donohue, a slap in the face. Wow. Sounds like an excellent reason why the ESB should never ever change its lighting no matter what the cause — because, inevitably, someone will get torqued because their pet honoree didn’t get the star treatment.
- Dismantling the Right Wing Campaign Against Elena Kagan – “The right-wing’s routine charges of ‘radicalism’ have settled into a tight little rhetorical circle which leaves no room for actual facts or logic. Here’s how it goes: because Obama is dangerously radical, anybody he appoints to anything should be assumed to be radical. And the fact that he is appointing radicals just proves how radically radical he himself is.”
- More than half the members of the GOP’s ‘Young Guns’ program are eligible for AARP membership. – The party of tomorrow — today!
- 8 Abandoned American Theme Parks “Open” for Exploration | NileGuide – Something very fascinating — and sad — about these.
- The goblin shark of Tokyo Bay will make you soil yourself [Shark Attack] – Okay, that’s plenty nightmarish for me.
- Makeup – I wonder what it says about me that I’ve never been a fan (at least in person) of significantly made-up women? (Perhaps it’s a “what are they hiding?” reflex.)
- Knowing whose ass to kick is crucial – Money graf: “Wisdom literature from every culture is full of warnings that anger is a direct cause of self-defeating stupidity. Most of that literature is hard-won knowledge; compiled by someone languishing in defeat and humiliation, or sitting in the ashes of a Pyrrhic victory. It’s no sign of manhood to be mastered by your anger. To the contrary, lack of self-mastery means you’re vulnerable to any enemy who knows how to exploit your weakness for bluster and chest-thumping. We need to get hold of ourselves.”
- Microsoft explains mystery Firefox extension, “fixes” update – I’ve never been wowed by these sorts of toolbars to begin with, and Microsoft’s fumble-thumbed handling of this update is a good support for that position.
- Pat Robertson To Woman Whose Husband Flirts With Other Women: Make Yourself More Attractive And Don’t Hassle Him – Yeah, Pat — that is precisely what Jesus would say, I’m sure.
- Michele Bachmann Agrees With Radio Host That Obama Is “Worst President In U.S. History” – The most burning question re Bachmann is whether she is fully aware she’s spouting bullshit for political purposes, or whether she is so delusional that she actually believes the ordure that issues from her mouth.
- In Beverly, laptops all around, but parents have to pay » Local News » SalemNews.com, Salem, MA – This is just silly-stupid. Require some sort of notebook? Fine. But I can’t think of anything that would compel a particular platform requirement, be it MacOS or Windows or whatever. There’s plenty of ways to use cross-platform standards that would keep this from being so onerous.
- Quiznos hires Subway employee fired for helping fire victims – Well, played, Quiznos. And, you, Subway, are PR idjits (as well as being poor employers).
- Congrats to Rush Limbaugh on his fourth traditional marriage – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com – Money graf (from the update): “They don’t really advocate the law’s recognition of Traditional Marriage, as they claim; rather, they only advocate that the law bar the untraditional marriages they don’t want to enter into (same-sex marriages) while recognizing the ones they do (multiple, serial ‘marriages’).”
- Souvenir Friday- Monsanto Adventure Through Inner Space Booklet – I loved Adventure Through Inner Space. Go, Mighty Microscope, Go!
- News Blog: Get your picture with Jesus – (Shudders.) Maybe Islam has the right idea about images of the Prophet …
- 8 of Professor X’s Biggest Dick Moves – Yeah … the Prof can be a real jerk sometimes. But always in a good cause, right?
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The GOP “Young Guns” reminds me a Mary’s experience with the “Young Opera Buffs”. I believe “young” in opera years was 50+