Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Liberty Counsel Launches the Ninth Annual “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign” – Could you at least wait until December, guys? Or even November?
- The tea party vs. OccuMob – Pat Boone: “I not only attended and spoke at several tea-party events, my neighbor Josephine Resigno and I created and hosted two Beverly Hills tea parties, right in front of the big tourist attraction Beverly Hills sign on Santa Monica Boulevard. At each one, we attracted over 500 of our neighbors, had speeches from rabbis, ministers, celebrities, elected officials and just plain citizens, including Cuban and Iranian immigrants. We sought and obtained police and city permits, rented porta-potties and umbrellas and a good sound system.” Well, good heavens, Pat, clearly you and your Tea Party types are far more patriotic and concerned with the health of the nation than those “rebellious, raucous, often profane and filthy, at times illegal, angry and purposeless mob scenes.” I mean, they couldn’t even be bothered to rent porta-potties! Damned, dirty hippies!
- 10 reasons Christians should reject Romney – Wow. I’ve never felt so pro-Romney in my entire life. If only I had any level of confidence he’d be this far the Left in the White House, I might actually be tempted to vote for him.
- Dear Religious Right, Nothing To Fear Over Halloween – The need of some Christianists to zealously either denounce Halloween as Satanic, or else claim it is purely and completely a Christian holiday, both amuses and disturbs. It’s a division of the world into Us vs Them that seems completely at odds with what Jesus taught.
- Fischer: Jesus Would Oppose And “Take A Whip” To Occupy Wall Street – Bryan Fischer is a dolt. Jesus hardly condemned taxes (indeed, when his enemies tried to trap him into a question about taxation, he replied to “render unto Caesar …”, rather than calling it a case of theft and covetousness. I certainly cannot say that Jesus would join the #OWS movement, but if he were in lower Manhattan, I sincerely doubt they would be the first folks in the vicinity he would “take a whip” to.
- Time for performance reviews to go social [infographic] – Holy Kaw! – A rather timely infographic, as I’m in the middle of performance reviews …
- Reagan–Our Pro-Apartheid President : Lawyers, Guns & Money
- Paul Ryan Gets an English Lesson – I am so waiting for this guy’s 15 minutes of political fame to expire.
- How Useful is the Concept of Sexual Orientation? – While plumbing is an important part of sexual attraction, it’s certainly not the only part. Beyond that, there’s a difference between sexual attraction (she’s hawt!) and relationship attraction (I’d like to go out with her and maybe more!). There may (and is) overlap, but SEX is not the only thing in the world (however cool it is).
- SOPA in depth: the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history? – This really is insanely bad, akin to someone being able to walk up to your house, claim it’s yours, and get the sheriff to evict you without any sort of court proceeding or opportunity for you to provide your title to counter the claim.
- In-N-Out Burger will come to Denver…for a price – Denver Restaurants and Dining – Cafe Society – I like In-N-Out … but not THAT much.
- #OWS, Class Warfare and a History Lesson on the Bonus Army of the 1930’s – The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, to paraphrase another cliche, those who forget the history of protest are doomed to see it repeated.
- When Worlds Collide – I wish they’d do more of these sorts of things on coffee cups. They last longer, and I have more cool t-shirts than I know what to do with (but can’t bear to be parted from any of them).
- Frozen Promises; Or, Life is NOT a Journey – There’s a reason why society doesn’t let people sign legal contracts until they are 18. Convincing your daughter to sign a “purity contract” at 9, or 11, or 13, is setting up everyone for heartache and broken promises. I have my own ideas about how I’d like to see my own daughter’s life and relationships and sexual experiences go in the coming decade — but I wouldn’t dream of trying to sign her into a guild contract over them. I’d rather simply try to stay in relationship with her, make my own feelings known (and hear hers), and help her along the way.
- Two-thirds of nation’s millionaires want their taxes raised – I’ll betcha the Koch Bros. weren’t on the “Yea” side of that poll, which tells you all you need to know about the last question here.
- Review: Happiest Haunts Guided Tour At Disneyland – Do you Dare? | The Disney Blog – Oooh. I’d definitely do this.
- HOWTO defend yourself against tear-gas – Boing Boing – Good to know.
- For Young Women, A Horrifying Consequence Of Mubarak’s Overthrow | The New Republic – Stupid, stupid human creatures.
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5. Wait. Is he seriously suggesting that the Wall Street financiers are not “covetous”? That bankers that process checks before prior deposits so as to charge cascading overdraft fees are not “thieves”? WWJW?
16. If only I still lived in SoCal!
#1 Read the website. Was stunned at one of the claims. Can someone please tell me where senior citizens have been banned from singing Christmas carols? What happens? Do the Christmas Police roam through adult facilities confiscating Perry Como albums? No more Mannheim Steamroller allowed!? Your Dogs Barking Carol tapes or it’s straight to the hoosegow for you?
@Avo: (5) Don’t you recall that famous part of the Gospels when Jesus went to the temple and drove out all the people there protesting against how the money changers had brought down the local economy?
@Ellie: (1) Typically, these sorts of sites take a story that’s grown like Topsy through the Internet, usually turning an innocuous or understandable incident into Daniel being thrown amongst the lions. Now, if you told me there was some over-zealous person who decided something akin to senior citizens not being allowed to sing Christmas carols (such things do happen on occasion), as a one-off thing, I wouldn’t be utterly flabbergasted, but I’d want to read some primary materials first before I got all huffy about it.