Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Conservative Base Erupts At Tancredo For Jeopardizing GOP Chances With His Third-Party Candidacy – Stay the distance, Tom! Nobody likes a quitter! (Hee-hee …)
- Why Can’t All Credit Card Agreements Look Like This One-Page Piece Of Beauty? – It’s understandable and it (clearly) still lets the card company make quite a bit of money. You’d think it’d be a win-win.
- FDA approves ella as 5-day-after emergency contraceptive – And, on-cue, the “It’s all an evil pro-abortionist anti-life radical agenda from the Obama Administration’s gang of baby-killers” rhetoric fires off. Especially since it may actually be eligible for insurance coverage that might, somewhere, in some fashion, involve a tax dollar or two.
- Perfectly Exposing The Utter Hypocrisy At the Heart of The Right’s Anti-Mosque Crusade – It is appalling (even if cynically to be expected) to see so many people starting with “I respect religious rights” and ending with “except for those rights over there being exercised by THOSE people.” Frown the slightest at any of these Christianists and they cry “persecution!” and “suppression!” and “End Times!” And yet they have no compunction of vilifying any other religious group they choose, and that’s because they aren’t interested in freedom of religion per se, they are interested in freedom of THEIR religion alone.
- Insincere bigotry – “The question I am puzzling over here is does it matter whether or not the Liar Tony Perkins is, himself, a SINCERE bigot? Is there any sense in drawing a distinction between an actual bigot promoting and profiting from a bigotry he truly believes and a con-artist demagogue performing the exact same actions and saying the exact same things despite not actually believing the bigoted lies he’s selling?”
- 2. Sewers and storm drains – “So, to recap: The eat-your-straw crowd is advocating continued high unemployment, decades of huge deficits and raw sewage in your basement (for those lucky enough to still have a basement). I’m supporting the alternative to that, which says that when we have A) work that needs to be done, and B) people who need work to do, then we don’t actually have two problems, we have one obvious solution.” Can we elect this guy to the White House? And Congress?
- Senate Majority Leader Reid opposes Obama on mosque project: ‘Should be built someplace else.’ – Disappointing. But, again, WTF is any US Senator — except, MAYBE, one from New York — doing weighing in on this subject?
- The Straight Dope: Why must you alternate plus and minus when inserting batteries? – All makes sense, but sort of cool to see it explained.
- Court Says California Mall Can’t Ban Customers From Talking To Each Other – Um, yeah, that’s pretty much unconstitutional. Also, dumb.
- Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future – This just strikes me as weird — I have no desire for a radio receiver in my phone, and no desire to pay more for one.
- Coding Horror: Groundhog Day, or, the Problem with A/B Testing – Oh, I spotted “Groundhog Day” as a horror film (or at least one that’s makes me hauntingly uneasy) a long time ago. And it’s hard to believe it’s that Phil’s going to have an easy time of it after the movie is all over …
- Stop Gay Marriage Or Say Goodbye To Christian Civilization – Really? Ancient Greece declined because of “the proliferation of the gay lifestyle and its public acceptance”? Really? Political infighting, the Macedonians, and the Romans didn’t have anything to do with that?
- The Religious Right’s Exclusive Claim to Religious Freedom – Yes. It’s all about “Us” vs. “Them,” and “Us” is explicitly Christian (especially Right-Thinking Christians), with Jews allowed to tag along for some good feelings and Apocalyptic fodder.
- Howard Fineman almost has a moment of clarity – Yup. It’s all about race, whether it’s the Latino Non-Whites, the Middle-Eastern Non-Whites, or all those other Non-Whites. And it’s despicable.
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