Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Irene costs restart Washington budget battle | Reuters – Because, of course, it’s okay to fight a war or two “off the books,” but heaven forbid you recover from a disaster that way.
- Census Reveals Gay People are Shockingly… Normal | Religion Dispatches – Inconceivable!
- Bachmann Plays Down Comments Linking Disasters and Deficits – NYTimes.com – Bachmann’s explanation is incoherent (why, yes, we do have earthquakes in the United States every day), and, honestly, given that people have actually died due to this hurricane, even joking that it’s God’s way of getting politicians’ attention is in bad taste.
- Bill Watterson Writes, Illustrates, Shreds New ‘Calvin And Hobbes’ Strip Each Morning Out Of Spite | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Dammit, Onion! Some things are too horrible even to joke about …!
- Republicans Against Science – NYTimes.com – Abe Lincoln and, more particularly, Teddy Roosevelt, are spinning in their graves over what their party has become.
- Why You Won’t See Martin Luther King Jr’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech on YouTube [Copyrights] – Insanity.
- Federal Court: Massachusetts Law Against Recording Of On-The-Job Cops Is Unconstitutional – YES.
- AT&T Now Charging You For Not Using Enough Long Distance – Company’s Nickel and Diming Continues Despite T-Mobile Desires – Stay classy, AT&T.
- Improvements in Windows Explorer – Okay, that looks pretty cool.
- Michele Bachmann Thinks God Is Using Extreme Weather To Get Our Attention (Updated) – Oh, yes, Ms. Stewart, “obviously.”
- Women fighters in reasonable armor – Yes! (And she’s still damned sexy.)
- Republicans Complain About Cuts to FEMA Hurricane Relief…You Know the Cuts They Wanted – It’s all fun and games until it’s your eye getting poked out with a stick.
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3. That was a joke? Maybe everything she’s said so far was a joke!
4. That’s both hilarious and agonizing at the same time.
8. The American Way, baby, the American Way.
9. They seem to be looking at this from the user’s perspective and really shaping it up! I’m impressed.
11. A scowling woman with a sword is sexy to you? I’d be too scared to even contemplate any hanky-panky.
3. And, as I said, generally in bad taste.
11. She looks competent and confident. That’s sexy.
Yeah, well, Baba Yaga looks competent and confident, and I don’t think that equates to sexy.
(1) She’s not the illustrated figure in question.
(2) She’s not on the site in question.
(3) I don’t know about you, but I’M not going to tell Baba Yaga she’s not sexy (should the situation arise).
Ah. I took your statement too generally, then. My apologies.
Thanks for not flaming me for my error. It’s one I seem to make frequently, and many people react much more strongly than you did. As usual, you are reasonable and courteous. I applaud you, sir.