Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Gay Saudi Diplomat Fears For Life, Seeks U.S. Asylum – Can’t wait to hear Fox News’ take on this, given their Islamophobia, their homophobia, and the major stock holdings in News Corp by a Saudi prince …
- Exploring offensive symbolic expression – “Here’s my long-term prescription: we must resolve to stop killing one another over symbols. We will always have our hands full responding to actual acts of real violence or oppression; we don’t need to be blowing each other up over ideas. And if the objection is made that some cultures lag behind us in that conviction, we won’t help them catch up by becoming terrorists ourselves. Our best strategy is to demonstrate our convictions; stick by them, live them, and never back down from showing the world what freedom looks like.” Amen, Brother George.
- Protesting xenophobic ignorance – I picked up a copy of the Qur’an last week, and have read a bit of it. I’ll give a “review” eventually, but I like to think that trying to learn about people is a hell of a lot better than listening to talking heads on Fox News about them.
- It’s full of stars!
- On Religion – Muslim Prayer Room Was Part of Life at Twin Towers – NYTimes.com – DON’T INTERFERE WITH OUR XENOPHOBIC STEREOTYPING TALKING POINTS WITH YOUR NUANCED REALITY!!!!!!!
- Sarah Palin Speaks in Wasilla on 9/11 – “I know. What would we do without Fox News? I don’t know.” I suspect we’d hear a lot less from the Divine Ms. Sarah … who would probably still be serving as governor of Alaska.
- Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors
- Carolina Beach restaurant says “no” to screaming children – WECT TV6 – WECT.com – Wilmington, NC news and weather – – True, Ms. Heflin, kids will, on occasion, scream. At which point what you CAN do is take them outside where they will not bother anyone else. That is, of course, inconvenient for you. It might even cause your food to get cold. That is, alas, one of the burdens that responsible parents must bear. Deal with it.
- The dignity that is Cat
- Incoming! – Yikes!
- Africa is bigger than you think
- Beer Styles Guidelines – An interesting breakdown of different types of beer.
- A G.O.P. Leader Tightly Bound to Lobbyists – NYTimes.com – Remember: this is the man who will be the Speaker of the House if the GOP takes that chamber.
- What the Things You See When You Rub Your Eyes Are Called – Used to love generating these for myself.
- Give Me Inefficient Lighting or Give Me Death! | Mother Jones – Why am I not shocked? Because my opinion of the rhetoric from the Breathless Right has sunk so low. Whetehr it’s bloggers like Erick Erickson or vapid pols like Michelle Bachmann, it’s never just a matter of engaging about the facts, but going after third- or fourth-order symbolic nuttery like this, and turning it into a symbolic referendum on THE LIBERAL-SOCIAL-MUSLIM-ATHEIST-SCIENCE MENACE!
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