Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Garden & Gun Magazine Subscription – Hidden Deal – It’s two taste treats that taste great together! Um …
- Postal Service “Crisis” Comes Entirely From Unorthodox Pre-Funding Mandate – Not the first time this has been mentioned, but worth mentioning again.
- Living Surnames: A Manifesto | The Baby Name Wizard – Margie kept her last name, which I was fine with. What’s interesting to me is how keeping, or changing, last names has gotten both harder and easier … easier in terms of the real records for folks are tied to national ID numbers and the like, harder because name data is recorded in so many places now and needs to be changed in each one. This is another “I’d love to go forward a century and see what the norm is” question.
- Chances Increase for Sooner Supreme Court Review of Healthcare Law | People For the American Way Blog – An interesting move by the Obama Administration — hoping, I’d imagine, that a favorable SCOTUS ruling would both bolster Obama’s reputation, and that by getting it settled pre-election, then if the GOP takes the White House the individual mandate will be a fait accompli.
- OnStar Scraps Plans To Track Your Car After You Quit Service – Good. Of course, Facebook will soon do it for you, so …
- Global warming “denialism” is becoming a tribal marker for Republicanism – Or, rather than “tribal marker” perhaps a “religious belief.” Which is a reason why the occasional attempts by some evangelical or conservative Christian leader to actually pay some attention to the issue has cause so many conniptions.
- Small Businesses Create Jobs But They Also Destroy Jobs, Says Economist – And this is where we get into the further tangle of small business “job creators” being hurt by individual income tax, and further how it’s all used as decoy for the interests of large businesses (who aren’t hurt in that fashion, but whose executives and board members and large stockholders are).
- The decline of violence: Steven Pinker’s new book argues that the modern world is more peaceful, not less: Azra Raza
- Jamey Rodemeyer’s Sister Talks About the ‘We’re Glad You’re Dead’ Chants at Homecoming Dance: VIDEO – They have “the heart to do it” because they think that’s normal, socially acceptable behavior, and they expected to have other folks join in. And so they ran. Which is a silver lining here.
- Judge considering religion requirement – Monday, Sept. 26, 2011 | 7:01 p.m. – Las Vegas Sun – I’m not sure how the Nevada officials here can justify their position on who can perform marriages — and the one who tries here is fairly incoherent. If you allow a variety fo government officials to do it and religion-affiliated private individuals, but hasten to point out that those religion-affiliated private individuals don’t have to do anything religious as part of what they do … then what’s the point of the distinction you’re making?
- Simon Maloy: O’Reilly Happy To Let “Totalitarian” NPR Promote His New Book – Of course! There’s money involved! That’s the American Way!
- The Prestige – Heh.
- DC Comics doing market research into new 52 with Nielsen – A self-selected survey automatically has some problems, but as a way to gather up some specific data, this might be interesting. I’ll wait until after I go through this week’s pull (the last with new New 52s) before taking it.
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