Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- JMS Takes Over Superman and Wonder Woman – This should be damned interesting. Heck, even if I didn’t care for some bits of his Spider-Man, I give him credit for trying some new (and epic) stuff with the character. If anyone can forge something relatively clean and awesome from these two super-powered icons, it’s Joe.
- The 5 Best and 5 Most Ridiculous Episodes of The Flash TV Series – Hard to believe I was at the San Diego Comic-con where they announced the show, too. Yikes! Just put the DVDs on my Wish List.
- Tim Burton Has a Great Idea – Okay, I do like Tim Burton (and, for that matter, Danny Elfman). But this is still pretty funny.
- What’s in it for the left – Short answer: “The answer is pretty straightforward: they get health care reform.” Which is a damned sight more than we’ll get without the current HCR bill passing. And the bar gets raised for further, more positive efforts in the future.
- Palin endorses Canadian-style socialized medicine? – Money quote: “Universal health care: good enough for Palin’s family, but not for yours?”
- Courting Disaster – The attempt to normalize, justify, and defend torture sickens me.
- Engandered_Species.jpg – The US is high on the list — alone among the industrialized world — because Europe killed off much of its wildlife centuries ago. Which doesn’t excuse us at all, but gives us an opportunity to lead.
- Palin Admits To Travelling To Canada For Health Care – You’d think that someone who admitted to hopping into Canada for free health care, until they netted a nice union job that had good coverage, wouldn’t quite be the darling of the Right …
- Corker And Alexander Place Hold On Aviation Funding Bill To Prevent FedEx Drivers From Unionizing: Pat G.
- Today In Gay News: No Tax Breaks for Florida Films, Forced Relocation in Utah – Goofy and horrifying … both of ’em.
- Salmonella In Common Food Additive Leads To Recall Of Pretty Much Every Food Ever – None of the identified products are something I think we have, but … yikes.
- Well, This Employment Graph Is Just Terrifying – I have it on good (Republican) authority that’s just because we’re paying all those slackers unemployment insurance.
- Scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material – This has a ton of applications. Exciting.
- Shop Teacher Suspended in Religious Dispute [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – If the shop teacher told people they could only make Christian tchochkes, or forbade everything but Chrsitian tchochkes, that would be clearly wrong. Less clearly (but still) wrong is telling them they can’t create any tchochkes with a religious theme as long as everyone has the equal opportunity to do it. Of course, reading the article, it appears the shop teacher forbade Christian stuff for fear of being sued, but Wiccan stuff because it was “EVILLLL!!!!”
- Ubisoft DRM server down, no playing AC2 on PC today – Fragland.net – Dial-in DRM like this is one more point of failure (and, ultimately, a permanent one when the vendor decides to shut down). A good reason not to get a legitimate copy of the software, it seems to me.
- How Well Do Hand Sanitizers Work? – Answer: not very well at all, to judge by actual studies. That’s because (a) we always touch a lot of stuff, (b) a lot of diseases (like H1N1) are airborne rather than touch-borne, and (c) like vaccinations, it only works at if everyone is doing it vigorously and thoroughly, which simply isn’t the case.
- Another reform push, another deceptive response – Money quote: “Op-eds like this are best understood not as actual attempts to influence legislation but rather as strategic contributions to a larger narrative alleging that President Obama is engaged in grand conspiracy to drag unsuspecting Americans down the road to serfdom. It’s not true, but standards of truth are very lax when U.S. Senators write for the op-ed page of the Washington Post.”
- Liz Cheney’s DOJ smear faces increased blowback – Money quote: “The attack on the so-called Gitmo Nine or al-Qaeda Seven wasn’t just an attack on a handful of liberal lawyers, it was an attack on the American system of justice, suggesting that certain classes of people aren’t entitled to robust legal representation and that those who chose to represent them in order to ensure due process are America’s enemies. If anyone can be denied due process, than all of us can be denied due process.” Damn straight.
- The GOP still just doesn’t like the unemployed – Let them eat cake!
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1990 was also the last year before Comic-Con moved into the ‘New’ San Diego Convention Center. Where we though the Con had all the space it would ever need (at half the space it now has, which still isn’t enough).
I can’t wait to see what you think this year.