Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Site Lauches To Out DC Priests – I am very conflicted on this, as I think “outing” someone is a tremendous intrusion on someone’s life and privacy, even if they are being hypocritical about it. On the other hand, I can understand and sympathize with the comment, “The Church hierarchy has crossed the line in diverting the mission of the church from helping the poor and caring for the sick to waging political campaigns to strip LGBT citizens of civil rights protections. We can no longer remain silent while this happens. Nor can our parish priests.” The question is, aside from the ethical conundrum, will it actually have any practical effect?
- Arrival Clocks Pull In Late For MTA – We recently got arrival time clocks at the Denver Light Rail stations — which are okay, but I’d rather have a count-down clock like this (since the clocks don’t actually tell what time the system thinks it currently is, thought that gives them some wiggle room on when the trains actually arrive). In other words, it’s less important to me that the train is arriving at 5:38 than knowing that the train is arriving in 4 minutes.
- In which it is revealed that Mitt Romney is the Queen of Hearts – “Sarah Palin is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most rogueish human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
- Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh: ‘Are we warming or are we cooling?’: Brad
- Palin On Muslims In The Military After Fort Hood: ‘I Say, Profile Away’ – I’m tremendously amused by how Palin is quick to call for profiling of Muslims, but has a hissy-fit any time someone stereotypes her.
- U.S. ‘dismayed’ at plan to expand Jerusalem neighborhood – washingtonpost.com – I feel a good deal of sympathy and support for Israel, but their relentless annexation of Jerusalem, etc., through settlement expansion goes a long way to undermining it.
- The “Extraordinary Circumstances” Of The McCain, Graham Filibuster Vote: Kyle
- Harry R. Jackson, Jr. : Can Jesus Be Blackmailed? – Townhall.com – Um … no, Jesus didn’t actually spend money on anything. He didn’t donate to any causes. He certainly didn’t donate to activists, but encouraged people to give all their money to the POOR and to follow him, not to contribute to political causes. Note, he also didn’t preach rebellion or withholding of taxes from Rome or the local kingdom. Jesus, based on his actions as recorded in the Bible (which I presume Jackson us as his same source) would have no problem with Jackson preaching his message; I think he would have a problem with Jackson dabbling on local politics. Jesus might very well have told people that if the local authorities were unjust, they should find their own way to support the poor with their offerings (though he never seemed to condemn alms-giving to the Temple, despite criticism of the religious leadership’s activities there). Again, that is any giver’s prerogative, how to best get that money to those who need it. But that’s different from saying, “If you don’t let us do what we want, we’re going to take our charity money and go elsewhere with it.”
- Palin: Ignore the woman abusing the flag and look at those gams!: Ed Darrell
- Csi zoom story « Make My Mood – This is one of my biggest pet peeves on any of these high tech police (spy, investigation, journalism, etc.) shows. Almost as much as the COMPUTER PROMPTS IN BIG WINDOWS AND GIANT LETTERS SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT’S ON THE SCREEN FROM YOUR TV.
- Reality Check: Beware What “Critics Say” on Reform and Mammograms | The White House – Lovely that health care opponents are touting new task force mammogram recommendations as a threat of “rationing.” Ask them if the government should provide women with free mammos within the guidelines, and see how quick they would be in declaring that’s socialism.
- Who would have thought that some little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness. – I really need to watch this movie again some time soon. Preferably with Katherine.
- “Discount club” scams filch billions from online shoppers – Always, always, always triple-check on these sorts of offers. And then, in general, don’t do ’em anyway.
- Dethroned Miss California loses it on Larry King Live set – Can Ms Prejean’s 15 minutes of fame PLEASE be over, so that she can join Joe the Plumber over in the “where are they now?” bin?
- Waters of Mars – Press reviews. – I’m putting my fingers tightly in my ears — and will probably stop following Dr Who news in general for a while.
- The truth hurts: Newsweek’s Palin cover: Lindsay Beyerstein
- Doctor Who “The End of Time” trailer hits the net. – Mostly pretty fanboy stuff here — looking forward to it, of course, but nothing here that makes me really go squee (except the return of Donna Noble).
- The Dark Tower Reopening for Business – For those who follow such things.
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Dark Tower! Squee!
Dave, you missed staring into the maw of the abyss last night….Larry King interviewing Joe the Plumber about Sarah Palin. Really, we were about one princess jesus boobies question from a quantum sigularity forming in the CNN studios. =P
Wow. Y’know, rumor has it that Larry King was once a serious journalist.
“This is one of my biggest pet peeves on any of these high tech police (spy, investigation, journalism, etc.) shows.”
Almost any depiction of computers and their use is going to irk me. Everything that prints on the screen makes a noise. Passwords are cracked one character at a time. Online games allow animations and sound that are customized to ridiculous levels.
About the only TV/film trope that annoys me more is showing the view through binoculars as two overlapping circles. Has nobody in Hollywood ever used binoculars???