Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The fatted calf is delicious, you should come inside and join the party – What? Add context to a proof text? That might muddle the clear, bright, razor-edged, exclusionary rule we’ve picked out! Nuance is antichrist! Compassion is disrespect for the Law! And the Law is what Jesus was all about! Right? Right?
- New Plugin: Nice Links for Twitter Tools – Giving this a try on Blog of Heroes (for which I use Twitter/bit.ly a lot).
- The myth of Ellis Island name changes – Interesting. Though I suspect there was still some minor drift in mistranscription or difficulty in reading some handwriting.
- Obama appoints record number of gay officials – Boston.com – I suspect this will not make folks on the Left much happier, but will give plenty of grist to the mill on the Right.
- The Stalemate State – “But, as we will learn next year, gridlock is not neutral. It is corrosive. The policy results that follow are neither centrist nor stable. Rather, stalemate in Washington leads to a slow and steady deterioration of governance — deterioration that is at the heart of our present economic crisis.” Which, of course, is just what the political most responsible for the gridlock wants.
- Changing Faiths – Some interesting, studied analysis of the role of religion in contemporary American society, probing a bit beyond the various soundbites.
- Omar Khadr’s Canadian Lawyer: ‘The Americans Have Made Up The New Rules In The Laws Of War’: Ben Armbruster
- Rumor: Is Apple Looking To Acquire Sony? [TNW Apple] – Actually, I’d think the Sony brand — create high-quality, creative, and highly-proprietary products — would fit right in with Apple. Btw … $51 billion in cash? Jeez — they could outfit a small air force … (Note: it would be amusing to have Apple buy Adobe and kill Flash that way …)
- Dumbass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – Because extremism in the cause of extremism is no vice.
- Details of Kentucky assault come together – Ah. We do, finally, have a “condemnation” from the Paul campaign.
- The perilous fate of immigration reform – Your future House GOP Majority at work!
- Ideological litmus tests for future Hill staffers – Stay pure, GOP!
- The war on the church-state wall – An interesting question. If there is no barrier between church and state, how do Buck et al. propose to proceed? With which churches will the state become entangled? Who gets money? Who decides? Presumably Christians will be in charge, but will evangelicals and the SBC get the lion’s share? Will Catholics be back on the “outs” again? What about the Mormons? Will post-millennial dispensationalists be running things, or will they be hounded as heretics? Inquiring minds want to know!
- Condemning violence shouldn’t be difficult – “I don’t mean to sound picky, but a defenseless woman was stomped on the head by Rand Paul supporters, and wound up in the hospital. I was hoping Paul would have the decency to use words like ‘condemn’ and ‘denounce.’ Maybe he could give her a call to see how she’s doing. Instead, he sought comfort on a Republican news network — where Paul knew he wouldn’t be pressed for a stronger statement or face follow-up questions — and talked about ‘both sides’ being worked up, and his dissatisfaction with ‘crowd control.'”
- YouTube – Ken Buck: The Corporate Manchurian Candidate – Hrm. Clever in a number of ways, but a bit too … well, ad hominem for my taste. A more nicely crafted version of the “Has Ken Buck answered whether he’s stopped beating his wife” minor chord extraviganza.
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