Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Archbishop Dolan Compares Marriage Equality To Communist Dictatorship: Zack Ford
- GOP Cuts To Food Aid For Seniors And Food Banks Equals One Day Of Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires – Stay classy, GOP!
- How Hackers Stole 200,000+ Citi Accounts Just By Changing Numbers In The URL – For this level of negligent stupidity, I hope somebody sues the snot out of Citi. Idjits.
- AT&T Murders Wisconsin’s WiscNet – Who Needs Fiber When You Can Get An Over-Priced T1? – Best government money can buy.
- Video: Pool-Moving Crane Crushes House – Wow … and you thought YOUR home improvement went wrong …
- The “Don’t Join A Union” Video Target Makes New Employees Watch: Ben Popken
- GOP House To Cut Aid For Pregnant Women, Children While Spending $17 Billion More On Defense – Well, yeah — if you rule out tax increases and insist on increasing Pentagon spending … then, yeah, everything else has to get slashed. It’s win-win, right?
- Climate Cartoons from Lukovich and Toles – Yup, just about right, on both counts.
- Let’s Just Go Ahead And Assume We’ve Learned The Lessons Of The Gabrielle Giffords Shooting | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – Just like the Daily Show, it’s really sad when The Onion makes the hard points that the rest of the media ignores.
- Budget crisis in Minnesota could impact national public health – Boing Boing – I’m sure there are some who consider that a feature, not a bug.
- By the Numbers: All Religious Affiliations Pro-Choice Except White Evangelicals | Religion Dispatches
- Gay jurist in Proposition 8 case had no legal obligation to remove himself, judge rules – latimes.com – Good.
- Statue of Hindu God included in public art project and Christians freak the fuck out. – We believe in the Constitutional Right of Freedom of Religion! But that just means our Religion, right? (Yeesh.)
- Joe. My. God.: Brits Fear “American-Style” Health Care – “A catalog of horrors that include grossly expensive and unnecessary medical procedures and a privatized system that favors the rich” = Best Health Care In The World!
- Some of Springs’ oldest trees to be chopped down – Colorado Springs Gazette, CO – About 100 trees, victims of drought “and city watering cutbacks.” And being replaced by half as many mere two-inch saplings. But who needs taxes, as long as you’re willing to live in a crumbling, barren cityscape?
- Joe. My. God.: Liberals Are Mentally Ill – Yeah, goofy — but I find most psychiatric interpretations of liberalism or conservatism to be equally goofy. Though I must admit, having it flogged by World Net Daily does give it goofiness-plus.
- What will we tell the children? : Tea Party Reeducation Camp – But Indoctrination is okay when it’s GoodDoctrination! It’s DoublePlusGood!
- Google announces Search by Image and Voice Search for desktop, revamped mobile search – Ooooh …
- The wrong ‘totem of credibility’ – Ryan says what the Right wants to hear, and proposes plans the Right wants to follow. That it’s all stuff and nonsense is beside the point.
- Following Presidential Announcement, Bachmann Will Not Seek Re-Election To Congress – Unfortunately she can still run for Congress again if her bid doesn’t pan out. Hopefully she’ll be so discredited as a zany (if she weren’t already) it won’t be an issue.
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