Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Ten Angry Men – “What we saw was a House press conference held by 10 people who look remarkably similar to one another: 10 powerful, conservative, white men in dark suits, who make more money in a year than the vast majority of the American people. And these 10 powerful, conservative, white men in dark suits all want the same thing: to approve a budget that imposes hardship on the elderly, the disabled, low-income families, and the middle class, while rewarding the wealthy and corporations with even more tax breaks.” Because that’s the American way!
- Bristol Palin’s Nonprofit Paid Her Seven Times What It Spent On Actual Teen Pregnancy Prevention – Nice work, if you can get it.
- The XM25: A Future Weapon Killing Bad Guys Right Now – Wait … 25mm ?! That’s, like, an inch. Crikey. “Extremely accurate counterdefilade capability at the squad level” indeed.
- Paul Ryan bravely takes us into the new “Bring Outcher Dead!” era of American prosperity – I’m sure they can save even more money by hiring minors (once all those pesky child labor laws are repealed).
- Shocker: Cheap Liquid Dish Soap Cleans Just As Well As The Pricey Stuff – Yeah, pretty much. Soap = soap.
- The anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all – George Monbiot – Guardian – Interesting indeed. This doesn’t invalidate some of the other arguments against nuclear energy (not least of which being, what to do with the waste), but it does indicate that a lot of the anti-radiation fears have been ginned up to dishonestly support a policy direction.
- Ben Dimiero: American Thinker Decries Stamps Adorned With “Blacks No One Has Ever Heard Of” – Hey, Alan Fraser — I’ve never heard of you, either.
- ‘Cold War City’ – Fascinating, in a macabre sense.
- Atomic brand names
- GOP Rep. Blackburn: It’s ‘Economic Child Abuse’ To Oppose Budget That Kicks 200,000 Kids Out Of Preschool – Won’t somebody think of the RICH children?
- ThinkProgress » Rep. Gerry Connolly Proposes Officially Changing Title Of Anti-EPA Bill To ‘Koch Brothers Appreciation Act’ – Let’s at least be honest about it.
- Are you feeling fired up? – “This time around, I’m falling back to my old way: ‘Can’t let Orange Johnny Boehner and Pickled Mitch McConnell have a partner in the White House. Guess I’ll vote for Obama.’ It’s a valid way of assessing the situation and it provides some motivation, certainly, but it hardly fuels a fire in my belly.” That’s how, sadly, I’m feeling. And while I expect I will donate this coming election cycle, it will probably be to organizations I can trust to stay true to their message, not directly to the Obama campaign.
- Krugman on the Medicare crisis: It will come down to Obama – And if it comes down to Obama, unfortunately, we can expect him to give away half the store as an opening position.
- Paul Ryan’s “fundamentally immoral” plan to privatize Medicare – “Mr Ryan’s proposal to privatise and voucherise Medicare attempts to reintroduce the incentive to cut costs by dumping that risk back onto individual seniors. And the greatest risks will fall on the poorest, sickest, or least savvy elderly; they will be the ones most at risk of going uncovered. I agree with Mr Ryan that the government needs to limit taxpayers’ exposure to Medicare cost inflation. I think this plan is a fundamentally immoral way to do it.” Pretty much, yes.
- WPCandy: WordPress 3.1.1 has been released with maintenance and security upgrades – Yeah, I need to do this …
- Who Was Walter Reed? – Some fun trivia.
- Fischer: Welfare Just Gives Money To “People Who Rut Like Rabbits” – Stay classy, Bryan!
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