Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- How the Right and Left View America : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – Cf. Al Franken’s idea that the Right views America like a 6-year-old views its parents, while the Left views America like an adult views its parents. Which do you think is more realistic, and more productive?
- 5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically B.S.) | Cracked.com – The Good Old Days are, of course, not.
- How a Statistician Beat Scratch Lottery Tickets – Y’know, I’m married to a statistician, but …
- Religious Right Leaders Rush To Embrace Hoax Video Attack on Planned Parenthood – Amazing! Folks who think Planned Parenthood is evil are quick to jump on an demonstrably false scam operation (already reported by Planned Parenthood) as proof of just what they believe! Amazing!
- Would you call this pedagogy? – People who willfully obscure the truth to their own purposes … are evil.
- USDA’s New Guidelines Finally Listen To Tyler – “Enjoy your food, but eat less.” YES. Easier said than done, by far, but a healthy, doable key to lower weight for most people.
- What women want: For you to want them – Sex News, Sex Talk – Salon.com – “Fantasies are sexy because they aren’t real.” Yes.
- Chrysler orders Fiat dealers not to haggle [New Cars] – I love you, Chrysler!
- A history lesson from the Tea Party – John Quincy Adams on a Triceratops FTW!
- “Pioneers of Television”: The bloody, sexy rise of the American crime show – PBS – Salon.com – Hrm. Wish I’d spotted this earlier.
- Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results – Evil Empire is still Evil.
- After Lobbying To Kill The Stimulus, Koch Meeting Attendees Guarded By Police Saved By Stimulus – No worries! Even if the “stimulus” hadn’t saved all those county sheriff jobs, the Koch Krew could have simply hired Blackwater to protect them from protesters (and then written it off as a business expense).
- FWOTW: biblicalscholarship.net – People are sometimes incredulous when I mention how the King James Version is considered by some to be the One, True, Holy Writ of God (As Intended By Him In English!). Surely nobody is quite that zany in their Biblical literalism …
- Live Action Gives Planned Parenthood the ACORN Treatment – Because it’s okay to lie and cheat and defame as long as it’s for the forces of Jesus and the GOP!
- It’s an epidemic! – “We can’t pretend to be world leaders in science and knowledge while our best schools are turning their back on reason and evidence to sell magic charms and superstition to the populace.” Unfortunately, real science is scary and hard, while pseudo-science is comforting and easy. Farewell, world leadership! Hello, backwater tourist mockery!
- Apple announces iStore changes, prohibits Sony from selling competing ebook app – Look! More reasons to eschew ereaders! (Sadly.)
- Bolton: Mubarak’s Downfall Would Mean We Need To Bomb Iran Sooner – As far as I can tell, the weather, skirt lengths, or the winners of the Golden Globe are all sufficient reasons for John Bolton to hasten our bombing of Iran.
- Don’t Put Your Wife on the Do-Not-Fly List – Unchecked and poorly regulated authority will always, always, lead to abuse. Something that our oh-so-protective and security-conscious leaders always, always fail to consider.
- So Much For Small Government – Small government is great! Except when we want government to force people to do stuff we like!
- Stupefyingly Oblivious – Ha!
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5. Does he not realize that his “Were you there?” tactic can be applied to his beliefs as well?
10. Just set my DVR to record a hi-def airing on Friday. Hmm… Episodes about westerns, late-night, and local kids’ shows? Hmm…
13. Is there a bible out there that doesn’t contradict itself? I’m pretty sure that’s not limited to “unauthorized” versions.
5. The thought had occurred to me. Obviously not to him. Because, of course, he KNOWS it’s true.