Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Tough folks to please – “I feel ridiculous defending Graham from other Republicans, but the larger significance of this is important: the GOP base wants to create an environment in which Republican lawmakers should be afraid to even TALK to Democrats.”
- Fischer Calls for Blacklisting Any Company That Works On Ground Zero Mosque – And they’ll know we are Christians by our love …
- Right Reacts Preemptively to Expected Prop 8 Loss – I had no idea that there was a “core civil right to vote for marriage.” Just goes to show, I guess.
- Cox Becomes Third Health Care Plaintiff To Lose Gubernatorial Bid: Scott Keyes
- Think Progress » After being called out for adding a white nationalist tweet to his favorites, Beck deletes his entire list. – It’s certainly possible to inadvertently flag something as a Favorite in Twitter. But if that happened, you’d expect just the one item to be deleted and an “oops” Tweet to go up.
- Apple Launches Cloud Music Service in Uncharacteristic Fashion – Interesting. I suspect the labels will have a point here, but the idea of hosting my own music store on the cloud rather than on a single (well-backed-up) hard drive at my home is … attractive.
- Ted Haggard “over-repented” quote taking on a life of its own – Denver News – The Latest Word – The difference between Haggard vs. Woods and Vick — their transgressions / failings had nothing to do with their standing in their chosen profession.
- Tom the Dancing Bug: The Republican plan to commemorate Ground Zero – “Who better to decide how to memorialize the 9/11 attack on a multicukltural eastern city than white, western right-wingers?”
- Bad Drug Test = Thousands of Wrongful Convictions : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – So not only do we have a War on Marijuana of dubious value to begin with, but we’re taking lots of money-saving shortcuts that GUARANTEE that lots of folks are being sent to jail without verifiable evidence. That’s just peachy.
- Bike agenda spins cities toward U.N. control, Maes warns – The Denver Post – Wow. Lunatic Fringe ‘R’ Us! I mean, really … the only objection raised here is that it’s a suggestion made by a group within (GASP!) the UN. Which obviously means it’s part of a world-wide socialist anti-American cabal out to pollute our precious bodily fluids! Yeesh.
- New Start: the worst GOP obstruction yet | Michael Tomasky – “A semi-serious legislator, the kind trying to do the job he’s paid by taxpayers to do, would get in there and negotiate and get more money for upkeep or Star Wars or whatever, bearing in mind that US-Russia relations on a matter as grave as this should not be held hostage to electoral politics. Believe it or not, that’s how things actually used to work in this country. Not any more. And one party is far, far more to blame than the other. Disgraceful.”
- Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in the Digital Age – NYTimes.com – I tend to agree that it’s not so much a philosophical shift as that it’s just plain easier to to these days, and writing (or rewriting / synthesizing) is hard work. Which, of course, is kind of the point.
- Why would Steele want face time with foreign diplomats? – Honestly, I think it’s highly inappropriate for a national party head to meet with foreign diplomats. That would be true for any party.
- “Freedom:” The Right of Religious Fundamentalists to Discriminate Against Everyone Else | RHRealityCheck.org – “People are allowed to believe whatever bigoted things they want about their fellow human beings. What they aren’t allowed to do is act in bigoted ways contrary to their profession and expect to keep their jobs, a much different thing.” Someone whose conscience does not allow them to serve all members of the public equally should find another line of work, not demand that society allow them to discriminate against their clientele.
- 9 Minutes of Hot Catan-on-Microsoft Surface Action – Wow. That’s so cool. I can’t imagine actually buying this just to play Catan … but … still … so cool …
- GenCon Agenda – DORK TOWER, Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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