Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Limbaugh mocks Japanese disaster, suggests Japan was struck on purpose because country was environmentally aware – A dolt. And a bully, a cruel and vicious bloviator who doesn’t care who he hurts as long as he gets his ratings, his paychecks, and his fat-ass cigars.
- REPORT: In 12 States, GOP Plans To Slash Corporate Taxes While Increasing Burden on Working Families – Yes, tell me all about that “shared sacrifice” stuff again, GOP …
- Rep. Steve King Not In Favor Of Restoring Tsunami Funding, Warns Against ‘Over-Reacting’ – Yes, by all means, lets not overreact to tsunamis and their devastation by, y’know, actually trying to prepare for and and have early warnings for them. After all, things like that only happen to poor third world countries, not first world countries like the US, right? Jeez, what a dolt.
- The Obvious, Yet Never Stated Consequence of Balancing Budgets for Balance’s Sake : Mike the Mad Biologist – There is no particular virtue, nor benefit to a balanced budget. The question is, how are you doing the balancing, who’s affected by it, etc. But the idea that governments are not the same as individuals, in terms of what budget deficits mean (among other things) is either too difficult for people to understand, or too inconvenient for folks who profit otherwise.
- Is Islam the Problem? – Why is the Muslim (or, let’s say, Arab/Persian Middle-East) world today so far behind the West when it was so far ahead at one point? This article suggests it wasn’t Islam per se, or the anti-Islamic West, but some little things — little things that are no longer an impediment.
- XKCD’s radiation dose chart – An excellent chart.
- Bishops being helpful [Pharyngula] – There’s an irony here that a lot of folks defend the Catholic Church, saying, “Well, yeah, some folks there have done some bad things, and I don’t agree with some of their theology and teachings, but the Church also does a huge amount of good in the world.” That sort of “relativist” thinking apparently is not shared by some Catholic Bishops.
- Republicans Trying To Slip NPR De-funding Past While We’re Busy Chomping Down Iodine Pills? [Greg Laden’s Blog] – Because, of course, real “emergencies” are ones that play to the social conservative base.
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