Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- ThinkProgress » Flashback: NASA Agency That Discovered New Life Form Was Subject To Severe Budget Cuts Under Bush – Why would we want any pointy-headed scientist types working for NASA anyway? They should all be working for Monsanto and GE!
- ‘Constitutional conservatism’ is clearly the wrong name – “Constitutional conservatism” really means more “changing the Constitution, in text and in interpretation, to be more the way we conservatives like it.”
- Drake Opposed CA Mosque Because He Doesn’t Want Terrorist Pagans In His Back Yard – Yeesh.
- Introducing Google Earth Engine – Very cool (and socially beneficial).
- Christian Group Says Jesus is Coming Back… Let’s See Them Back It Up – No man shall know the day or hour … except US! On our BILLBOARD! Come to our website and buy the t-shirt!
- TSA recommends using sexual predator tactics to calm kids at checkpoints – Stay classy, TSA!
- NASA Finds New Life (Updated with Pictures) – Very, very cool. (Plus a shout-out to Mono Lake!)
- Police Spend All Day Investigating “Murder Scene” That Was Really a Movie Set – Heh.
- The physics and biology of the TSA’s backscatter security scanners – An excellent summary article on why backscatter x-rays aren’t — but might be — a risk. Plus a pointing out of an even bigger problem that might trump the scientific debate: system maintenance and human operators.
- FTC wants “do not track” button on your browser, pronto – Sounds like a fine idea to me. I doubt I would use it much, but it would be nice to have the option.
- Boehner Blasts Dems’ ‘Chickencrap’ Tax Cut Vote Gambit | TPMDC – How DARE they outmaneuver us and exploit House rules in a way that benefits THEM?! The NERVE of some people!
- Christian Minister: Muslim Congressman’s Support Of ‘Homosexuals’ Is Part Of Sharia Plot | TPMMuckraker – While on first blush this is absurd (gays are treated rather poorly in theocratic Muslim countries), digging down I think he’s actually warning gays that they shouldn’t hang out with a scary Muslim congressman. Or something like that. It’s all kind of, um, muddled.
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5. ‘“We hope that anyone would get a Bible out and try and prove that this is wrong,” he said. ‘Too much trouble. I’ll just do nothing for a few months and prove it wrong. And if they’re wrong about it, what else are they wrong about?
Say, any of the believers that have enough money to survive until May 21 should quit their jobs and stop giving money to a church that will have no need of it (surely it will last six months; heck, they can take out a mortgage!). They can now devote all that time formerly spent working to doing whatever God really wants them to be doing.
11. Tax cuts are “nonsense”? How un-Republican of him! (OK, he was criticizing the method of passing the cuts, I guess, but it’s a method the Republicans happily used against the Democrats umpty-seventeen times, so “nyaah.”)