Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Robertson Suggests Crack In The Washington Monument Was A Sign From God – A crack in the Monument is a message. If the Washington Monument stayed intact, that would be a message. If the top fell off, that would be a message. I could come up with whatever message you want from any of those. Now, if a middle section snapped, flipped 90 degrees, and the top landed intact on it, forming a giant cross … THAT might be a message. But, then, that didn’t happen.
- Rick Perry To Spend The Weekend With A Pseudo-Historian, A Christocrat, And God’s Sugar Daddy – Rick Perry is a dolt. I can’t imagine spending a weekend with David Barton without an attack of apoplexy.
- News Corp Set To Air 9/11 Documentary Glorifying Bush; Producer Says He’s Not Interested In ‘Facts’ – Wow. Sorry to see National Geographic involved in this.
- Fox News: ‘Facts Are Certainly’ On The Side Of Global Warming, But ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ – At least he’s honest that the facts don’t matter, just what they can rile up the crowds with.
- Rick Perry: Extending Private Health Insurance To Everyone Is ‘A Huge Problem’ – Rick Perry’s a dolt.
- Cantor Says No Earthquake Disaster Relief For His Home State Unless Spending Is Cut Elsewhere – Stay classy, Eric. And, Virginia voters … remember this, please.
- The ‘Depravity Of The Poor’ – Ah, yes. The poor. It’s all their own fault, you know. I mean, are there no prisons? No workhouses?
- Stuck in Line at Airport Security: Cheezburger Network
- On the Internet, Christianity is Losing By a Long Shot – It’s a sad excuse for Christianity that cannot engage with the world, bear the discussion of different views, hold up to the information and ideas on the Internet, defend itself, engage with people where they are (not depend on people coming to them), etc. Jesus didn’t hang out in the Temple, afraid of being contaminated by the skeptics and pagans in the world around him, nor is that what he instructed his disciples to do. If you aren’t willing to step out of your enclave (virtual or physical), then you are a dying creed, and deservedly so.
- Free Markets as Regulations – Those who most press the idea of a “free market” stand the most to lose if a truly free market — a war of “all against all” with no courts, property rights beyond one’s strong arm, no enforceable contracts, no police — were to take place. So, as the article says, “So the question, even when we are talking about the ‘free market’ is not a question of whether we should adopt a regulated economy or an unregulated economy. The question is: Which set of regulations should we adopt?”
- Why Are We Letting An Obsolete Gatekeeper Drive The Debate On Anything? – “They’re falsely convincing politicians, the press and even some of the public that rather than representing obsolete distribution mechanisms, they represent the content itself. It’s why you hear the recording industry referred to incorrectly as ‘the music industry.'”
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