Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The Forever Culture War | The American Prospect – “Even as we make progress on specific issues, however, the broader culture war seems to get uglier and uglier. The underlying sentiment that has fueled this conflict from the start — that only certain Americans are ‘real Americans’ who deserve rights and respect — has not gone away.”
- Random Book Blogging: Abolitionism as a Threat To Family and Christianity – “In Fitzhugh’s view, abolitionists sought nothing less than the reorganization of American society. They wished ‘to abolish … or greatly modify the relations of husband and wife, parent and child, the institution of private property of all kinds, but especially separate ownership of lands, and the institution of Christian churches now existing in America.’ If they are successful, Fitzhugh warned, government, law, religion, and marriage would be among the causalities.” The more the subject changes, the more the rhetoric stays the same …
- ‘Young Gun’ Paul Ryan Breaks With Boehner: ‘We Do Not Want To Negotiate Down’ On Bush Tax Cuts – Careful, John — the herd is always willing to turn on the leader if he isn’t careful …
- chookooloonks blog > love thursday: so, about that photobomb – “Even if it doesn’t change the outcome, I know that participating at least changed me.”
- Republicans and Fox News – joined at the remote – “It’s hard to overstate the impact of Republicans having their own cable news network, fundamentally changing the course of contemporary American politics.”
- Mike Johanns and the ‘1099 problem’ – The pro-loophole, anti-vaccine wing of the cheap-labor conservative movement strikes again!
- The Democratic fear-based strategy – Glenn Greenwald – Never underestimate the Democrats’ ability to sink themselves.
- Colorado Republicans come out against tax-slashing measures – The Denver Post – Might there be some slight, brief, appearance of sanity within the state GOP? Hard to believe, but …
- Responding to the fires in San Bruno – The Before and After pix are awful.
- Surplus – Real Life Comics September / 13 / 2010 – WANT!
- Issue #40 – Eugene JjAR – For all those that thought Garth Ennis’ Punisher MAX series was cartoonish, the whole FrankenCastle fiasco makes it look like Dostoyevsky. It’s been a massive jumping of the shark. A robot shark. With fricken lasers. Very sad.
- Libertarian Doctrine And Education – Libertarianism works great when you assume that (a) everyone has a perfectly equal opportunity to succeed as a free actor, and (b) others’ success or failure are none of one’s concern. The first is as unreal as a frictionless surface in physics experiments, and the second is morally repugnant.
- Paranoid Palin Hunts For Media ‘Moles’ At Montana Speech: Alex Seitz-Wald
- Study: ‘People Who Matter’ To Sunday Talk Shows Are ‘White, Male, Senior, and Republican’ – There’s something to the argument (whether or not it belies the mission statement) that the majority of congressional newsmakers and shakers are old white men. That the vast majority are also Republican is a bit harder to rationalize away.
- REPORT: Grand Old Deniers — Nearly All GOP Senate Candidates Deny Global Warming – And, unfortunately, they’ll all probably be dead before things get too awful.
- John Fund Attacks Public Workers By Claiming ‘Very Few Teachers Have Been Laid Off’ – Don’t let the facts get in the way of your nice diatribe, John!
- Quran Destroyer Randall Terry Dismisses 9/11 Families’ Concerns About Politicizing Terror Anniversary – Geez — imagine if someone on the Left dismissed 9/11 victim’s concerns about politicization of the anniversary, saying he wouldn’t “let the tail wag the dog.” There would be a cacophony of protest, condemnation, accusations of insensitivity, characterizations of unfeeling liberals, and general brouhaha. About Randall Terry though … only crickets.
- The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy – “When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, you forget about stochasticity. You are lulled by the signal. You forget about noise. With meaning, you overlook randomness, but meaning is a human construction.”
- 703-5: Questions and Answers: Troop – As usual, I’m not thrilled by this particular linguistic evolution, but concede it will be hard to back out from.
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