Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- BP Launches Effort To Control Scientific Research Of Oil Disaster: Brad
- The problem with short memories – Short memories? Or manipulated memories? If you just keep repeating a lie, pretty soon people start to think it’s the truth.
- Post poll: McInnis losing support, Republicans like Tancredo – The Denver Post – Tom “The Only Good Immigrant Is A Deported Immigrant” Tancredo? Crikey. (And color me SHOCKEd that Tom “Yeah I campaigned on a promise to quit after three terms, but let’s go for number four!” Tancfredo is evidently toying with the idea of trying to step into the race.)
- Vitter manages to shed any pretense of class – What a creep.
- The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating « OkTrends – I find the data crunching that OkCupid is willing to do based on their population (and the results they get from their crunching) to be fascinating.
- Saving Kittehs in the Midst of War – Waiting for the wingnuts to start warning about the country being quietly invaded by Islamicist Kittehs!
- Boehner eyes a return to failed regulatory policies – “I suspect much of the country gives very little thought to regulatory issues, and wouldn’t necessarily recognize why this is radical and dangerous. I’ll just put it this way: if you love lead paint from China, you’ll love the Republican deregulation agenda.” Regulations are perceived only as a cost, with no recognition that, when they do what they are supposed to, we “only” are kept safe and healthy.
- It doesn’t have to be this way – “It doesn’t have to be this way, but the political will to act doesn’t exist, and the only segments of the public screaming for political attention are deeply confused anti-government zealots who want the unemployment crisis to be slightly worse.”
- Freelance Writer Now Desperately Seeking Help from McInnis – Heh heh heh …
- Topless Robot – 10 Minor Star Wars Characters With Completely Unnecessary Backstories – Shades of the Lexicon game …
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