Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Verizon Rolls Out Android 2.2 to Droid Incredible | News & Opinion | PCMag.com – Pushed out to my Incredible today.
- Outrage of the Week Reversed! Maybe All Men AREN’T Pervs, Airline Realizes – No, we’re mostly pervs … just not that kind of perv. Yeesh.
- A Closer Look at the Second Quarter G.D.P. – NYTimes.com – Not quite a “damn lies and statistics” moment, but an interesting deeper look at what goes into the GDP numbers and how that can be misleading.
- Ten minutes could prevent one-third of road deaths, Spanish study finds – Yeah, a shame about having to cut back on first responders because people want lower taxes. Hope they don’t get caught by one of those “rolling brownouts” of coverage.
- Children raised by gay couples show good progress through school, study finds – Clearly a biased study!! Public schools do a horrible job teaching all kids!! They should have compared achievement scores of homeschooled-by-straight-Godfearing-Christian-parents vs homeschooled-by-evil-gay-Sodomite-parents!!
- Why some Americans believe Obama is a Muslim – Well, I wouldn’t call it wildly encouraging, but maybe it indicates that folks aren’t quite as stupid as the surveys indicate, just a bit, um, loose with their unconscious associations.
- Farris: Beck, Coulter, Mehlman Are Not “True Heroes” Of the Conservative Movement – The Purity Patrol strikes again!
- Glenn Beck Judges Not. Not. – “Whew. What would Beck demonizing somebody look like?”
- For Bryan Fischer, The Complete Absence of Evidence Is Definitive Proof – To be fair, it appears that Fischer simply didn’t check the current state of the story before clicking POST on his blog. That said, he’s certainly over-eager to jump on any breaking news that would fit his thesis of EVIL MUSLIMS ARE OUT TO EAT OUR HEADS! Of course, if you read the comments (or the comments on the WSJ site that eventually shows up in the link chain), it’s clear that there are a lot of other folks who agree with Mr Fischer, and who think suspicious but non-criminal behaviors should get someone shipped off to Gitmo, especially if it’s by SCARY MUSLIMS!!!!!
- Discount grocer SmartCo to open 5 Front Range stores – The Denver Post – This article is from March, but S&FI is one of those "institutional / party" standards that Jim & Ginger make use of for entertaining. Margie's noticed a couple of these SmartCo stores opeing up, so we'll have to check them out at some point.
- Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ being adapted … as a TV show (exclusive) – Wow. That’s … worrisome and exciting at the same time.
- Colson Demands An Explanation After Obama Destroys His Favorite Conspiracy Theory – “I hate to break it to you, but the Administration does not owe you an explanation about why your right-wing conspiracy theory has come completely unraveled in the face of basic facts, nor it is obligated to clear up the confusion caused by your own cluelessness.”
- The Walking Dead Have to Walk a Bit Further – That’s pretty promising. On the other hand — a 6-episode season? What is this, the UK?
- Hey Carmel, here’s where you can stick your school supplies – I’m sure someone at the Carmel Public Schools will point to some regulation that says that school supplies cannot be given away (for fear that someone will use that to defraud), and thus must be, for some reason, thrown away instead. (I, on the other hand, dumpster-dove regularly at the end of each year in high school and college; bought very few notepads and nary a three-ring binder the entire time. People throw away the most amazing things.)
- Pakistani officials leaving in protest – Look! Ay-rabs! Making ambiguous comments to flight attendants! Let’s detain ’em, not let them contact anyone official, until they can prove they’re not terrorists or Muslims or something else suspicious! (Amusing how “homeland security” can lead to weakening of our “national security.”)
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