Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- The Ken Buck Rape Case | Mother Jones – This wasn’t a “she-said, he-said” case. It was a “she-accused, he-confessed” case, and Buck still didn’t prosecute. The other factors mentioned are interesting, but fail to address this core fact.
- Rand Paul Head-Stomper To Victim: ‘I Would Like For Her To Apologize To Me’ – The last refuge of the bully: playing the victim.
- Asked If Being Gay Is A Choice, Joe Miller Dodges And Says ‘It Really Is A State Issue’ – It’s a state choice! Except when the states choose wrong! Then it’s a federal choice! Except when the feds choose wrong! Then it’s a state choice! Except …
- Nook Deletes All Your Files, Barnes & Nobles Shrugs – I have not updated my bookshelves in a while, but, mercifully, the used books I have there have not vanished. Except the ones I chose to give away.
- Arkansas School Board Member Says He’ll Only Wear Purple If “Queers” “Commit Suicide” – Stay classy, Arkansas!
- Alaska GOP Senate Nominee Joe Miller Admitted Lying About After Being Caught In Ethics Violation – Note this is all of two years ago.
- The Hobbit Shall Not Pass… Out of New Zealand After All – Huzzah!
- Is Downward Dog The Path to Hell? – Yes, because once you start taking yoga, “loneliness, alcoholism, and promiscuity” are the well-known, inevitable results …
- The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda – And they’ll know we are Christians by our love …
- Viagra for convicted rapists?: Bizarre false claim gets anti-Ed Perlmutter ad yanked (VIDEO) – Denver News – The Latest Word – I’m finding it interesting the number of stations that are (belatedly) fact-checking and yanking some of these ads.
- The New No. 2 – Wow — some pretty massive changes to Disney California Adventures. Kind of glad I finally got a chance to see the “before,” so I can hopefully appreciate the “after” …
- Calvin and Hobbes for October 27, 2010
- Dudes At Yale Pick Knuckles Up Off the Ground Just Long Enough to Type Some Nonsense [On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess] – Translated: “Well, yes, they went too far with their little button-pushing shenanigans, but boys will be boys and no harm, no foul, right? Lighten up, ladies! Come on over for a brewski or two!”
- U.S. College Degrees by County – The concentration of higher education in urban areas is much greater than I’d expected – and rather disturbing, too. Compare the “reddest” areas with the “red states,” too.
- Cookie – strip for October / 26 / 2010 – This is why I don’t keep cookies around me. Well, not for long, anyway.
- BBC News – US mid-term election spending nears $2bn mark – The best government money (er, “corporate free speech!”) can buy.
- San Francisco Earthquake & Fire – Remarkable post-Fire films. Devastated landscapes, still-smoldering ruins, building demolitions, tent cities … but also, a lot of folks still carrying out life and living as before.
- San Diego Zoo Gets Funky – Cool.
- Star Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court – Not sure if I should be amused, or make a snarky comment about the uproar from some quarters if the same lines had been attributed to a European court.
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Wargames Forum I belong to set up a seperate Current Affairs and Religeon site after “the incident”. Unfortunately all this did was distill the right wing tendencies of the majority, and very few liberals now visit it.
The latest “thoughts”. The Paul stomper was a left wing plant, and it was a stunt to smear Paul.
Which is why he’s an acknowledged local leader in the Paul campaign, has donated a substantial amount of money, and has had his name acknowledged in various print ads. Those clever, fiendish Lefties …