Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- New Google Phone Service Whispers Targeted Ads Directly Into Users’ Ears | Onion News Network – If you told me someone has seriously thought of this at Google, I would believe you.
- It’s been too long since we walked on the Moon | Bad Astronomy – I had not realized until the other day (when it was framed as a trivia questions) that all the manned moon landings were during the six years of the Nixon Administration. Crikey.
- Brian Michael Bendis And Alex Maleev’s Scarlet | Comics Should Be Good! – I had my doubts about this series beforehand — Bendis was just a bit too excited about it — but the first issue pretty much rocked.
- Appealing Poll: Texans Stand Tall For Church-State Separation « The Wall of Separation – That’s promising, even though it seems a fairly small sample.
- McInnis vows to stay in governor’s race despite plagiarism accusations – KDVR – Honestly, I’m surprised (though pleased) that this has gotten as much traction as it has. Despite his “vow,” McInnis looks to be in a huge amount of trouble within his own party.
- The most cynical of calculations – “Republicans aren’t just treating the public like fools, they’re counting on the public to be dupes. When an entire political party takes on the role of a con man, on purpose, because it sees the electorate as a bunch of suckers, it’s really not healthy for the political system.”
- Ben Nelson and ‘doing the job’ he’s elected to do – I find the procedural shenanigans of the Senate maddening, to say the least.
- Greenspan Calls For Full Expiration Of The Bush Tax Cuts That He Helped Enact: Pat G.
- Peter King: Republicans Shouldn’t ‘Lay Out A Complete Agenda,’ Because It Might Become ‘A Campaign Issue’ – Um, yeah … that’s kind of the point, inconvenient as it may seem. An informed electorate should be able to make a better choice.
- Anti-Vaccination Beliefs Spark Epidemic – Honestly speaking, vaccination is one of those issues that may cross the line between “personal freedom” and “societal obligation.” As in, when enough people use their freedom to decline vaccinations, it doesn’t just endanger them (and drive up health care expenditures), it endangers others, including me and mine.
- Make a Remote Sleeve for Technologically-Challenged Visitors or Family Members [Clever Uses] – That’s actually kind of a clever idea.
- A Meme that Needs to Die – “Illegal immigration is a boogeyman, drummed up because it taps into easy fears about outsiders and interlopers, and because it provides an easy scapegoat for the crappy job market and shit economy. The narrative today with Mexicans is the same one that worked against the Irish and Italians and Japanese and Germans and Jews in the past.”
- The Response I Wish More Christians Would Give – On a visceral, knee-jerk, “one can see why this would still inflame some irrational but very powerful emotions” level, I can understand (if still disagree with) the opposition to the Islamic Center near Ground Zero. But as a matter of principle, law, and liberty, it is unconscionable. For all that we boast of religious freedom, for too many it’s simply “freedom to be mostly like us.”
- Bennett School For Girls in Millbrook, New York.(photo by Andre… – Ooooh … lovely spookiness …
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