Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Maine bill will make it illegal to look at kids – “Visual sexual aggression”? And a felony? Really? REALLY?
- Pitiful wages, anti-union policies and corporate welfare to make America competitive with China – “But will American workers be willing to sign pledges promising not to commit suicide?”
- Billions turned down by Florida to be handed out elsewhere – Florida’s voluntary loss is everyone else’s gain.
- Navy Agrees To Perform Same-Sex Weddings; Right Wing Has Nervous Breakdown – If the chaplains are certified by the STATE to perform marriages and the STATE allows gay marriage, then military chaplains ought to be able to perform them, DOMA or not. I find it utterly hysterical (if contemptable) that the “states rights! states rights!” Right suddenly changes its tune when it comes to gay marriage.
- Microsoft to buy Skype for $8.5 billion cash – Business – US business – msnbc.com – Hmmm. Another reason to not use Skype.
- Budget Mix-Up Provides Nation’s Schools With Enough Money To Properly Educate Students | The Onion
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Ah, the Navy. Back in 1987, I was told of a Navy ship on which women served, where they were doing a search for “lesbian sex toys”. I recall looking down at my hands, and looking back up at the speaker, and he said something to the effect of not thinking things through thoroughly being typical. Mind you, the Navy, to the bst of my knowledge, never did go looking for “gay sex toys” before women served onboard ships… How do sex toys express their orientation, anyways?
Sigh about Skype. Husband and I have a getaway home in a remote rural area in which a) we’re reluctant to pay for a landline, since we’re there so seldom, and b) our internet service is much more reliable than our cell phone service. So we were thinking of getting into Skype as a phone solution there. But now that Micro$oft has bought it, it’s days of being unencumbered-ly easy to use are over.