Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- FRC: Washington DC Losing Black Population Because Of Planned Parenthood – Wow. That FRC “email alert” has an stunningly high number of lies, misrepresentations, distortions, and dog whistling per word.
- Why does the Catholic church allow Bill Donohue to speak for them?
- Watchmen writer adapting Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern to film [Movies] – Interesting indeed. (I was shocked to discover, in looking at the books recently, that the first was published in 1968.)
- The End of the Line for Troy Davis? – Alas, the justice system is more about process than about justice (for a variety of reasons, not all of them bad). Which is a great reason why the death penalty needs to be abolished. Not because there aren’t people who justly deserve death, but because there are people who justly don’t.
- Internet birthplace to be preserved for future generations – It seems funny to have a physical space to commemorate the great virtual space of the Internet — but I like it.
- Correlation is not causation, or why a primary challenge of Obama in 2012 might just work – This makes a great deal of sense. It’s possible a primary contest may have some small affect on the general election campaign — reduced support (but not vote change) from the far base, expended campaign coffers, perhaps some drift in the middle. There’s also the risk of selecting a candidate less likely to win in the general election. But as a rule, political causes and operations only get stronger as, like muscles, they are exercised.
- Michele Bachmann Can’t Answer If Homosexuality Is A Public Health Hazard – Actually, it’s more like Michele Bachmann isn’t willing to torque off her supporters who smoke.
- Can alcohol help the brain remember? Repeated ethanol exposure enhances synaptic plasticity in key brain area, study finds – Unfortunately, what it seems to help us most remember is that we had a good time when we drank (or at what we did when we did drink), which is not always a productive thing to encourage.
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