Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The Last Airbender :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews – It’s hard to tell how much of Ebert’s scorn is based on the tacking on of 3D (a cinematic tool he hates and one he spends considerable column length here criticizing) and how much is that the movie is just that bad. I would not discount his judgment out of hand, ever, but I know there are movies I like that he doesn’t.
- Cuccinelli: Gay men and women are excluded from the 14th amendment’s protections. – Doubtless he’d like to exclude them from others as well.
- Wonder Woman’s dowdy fashion makeover – Comic Books – Salon.com – Okay, I am second to none in admiring JMS’ writing savvy, and Jim Lee is a hell of an artist. But … well, aside from ratcheting WW through yet another reboot, does it really serve one of DC’s iconic heroes (and the most prominent female among them) to change from the swim suit and red boots she’s worn (mostly-sorta) since the 30s into pants and a jacket? I think not (and think it’s a sign the reboot will, eventually, get retconned away).
- GOP Thurgood Marshall attacks in historical context – War Room – Salon.com – So Orrin Hatch (R-UT) isn’t willing to say he would not have stood with the 11 notoriously racist Senators who voted against Marshall’s confirmation. And Tom Coburn (R-OK) said the same thing today. Good to know.
- Djou, Cantor, Most Of GOP Caucus Cave To Steve King’s Effort To Repeal (And Not Replace) Health Reform – Wow. It’s both amusing and disturbing to see the GOP leadership let themselves dragged even further right.
- ‘Weapons’ seized in G20 arrests not what they seem – The Globe and Mail – Hey, Canada, you still have a long way to go to beat our police when it comes to acting stupidly during protests — but keep on trying!
- Dork Tower and Dr. Blink Comic Books, You Ask? – This is very good news.
- Venn Diagrams – DORK TOWER, Friday, June 18, 2010
- Value – SMBC June 30, 2010
- Deregulation, In Jesus’ Name – First off, saying that civil law should only be for the “bad” and not for the “good” is pointless, since people don’t go around with big green lights or red lights on their foreheads. Unless the suggestion is that, well, good Christian citizens and corporations should be deregulated because, well, they’re good Christians. Second, the item from 1 Timothy (besides the interesting edited noted in the article) isn’t actually about civil law, but (from context) about religious law and teachings. But don’t let that stop you from extrapolating holy economic regulatory guidance, guys!
- Beck blames Woodrow Wilson for single-handedly enacting 17th Amendment | Media Matters for America – I do have to give credit to Beck for making Wilson far more famous than he’d been for generations. Of course, that only applies under the principle of “there’s no such thing as bad (or dishonest) publicity.”
- Right-wing media change standard on questions a Supreme Court nominee should answer | Media Matters for America – Hiding from hypotheticals for me, but not for thee!
- Tooth Regeneration Gel Could Replace Painful Fillings – This could be damned revolutionary (and another reason why dentists have been shifting over to more cosmetic areas of the field).
- What Boehner considers an ‘ant’ – “Ladies and gentlemen, the man who would be Speaker.”
- Engle: Obama Unleashing Demons With His Father’s Day Declaration: Kyle
- Fox News Attacks Chicago Libraries – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat – What a bunch of (appallingly influential) maroons.
- Angle Calls Unemployed Americans ‘Spoiled,’ Claims There Are Plenty Of Jobs Out There – Let them (work for people who) eat cake!
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