Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Jeffress Says Satan Is Behind Roman Catholicism – Hey, all you folks who thought I was exaggerating about how Catholics are seen as just as bad by some on the Right as Mormons? Read on …
- Bryan Fischer’s Speech To The Values Voter Summit – I think I won’t watch these. Having an aneurysm isn’t on my calendar this week.
- Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users – I’ve been not doing all that much on G+ because, to be honest, it doesn’t tie into anything. Give me a way to easily crosspost to it — or from it — and I’ll be there.
- Barnes & Noble Won’t Sell Physical Copies Of Kindle Exclusive Comics – I’m not sure how you are supporting your promise to “make available any boo, anywhere, anytime” when you’re not carrying something in your physical stores, just because you aren’t allowed to carry it in your digital store.
- Panic of the Plutocrats – NYTimes.com – “Wall Street’s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is. They’re not John Galt; they’re not even Steve Jobs. They’re people who got rich by peddling complex financial schemes that, far from delivering clear benefits to the American people, helped push us into a crisis whose aftereffects continue to blight the lives of tens of millions of their fellow citizens. Yet they have paid no price. Their institutions were bailed out by taxpayers, with few strings attached. They continue to benefit from explicit and implicit federal guarantees — basically, they’re still in a game of heads they win, tails taxpayers lose. And they benefit from tax loopholes that in many cases have people with multimillion-dollar incomes paying lower rates than middle-class families. This special treatment can’t bear close scrutiny — and therefore, as they see it, there must be no close scrutiny.”
- X-Ray of foot in high heeled shoe – Are you watching, comic book artists?
- Black & Blue – AWWWWWW! TEH CUTE!
- Fischer: Rights Endangered If President Believes In Evolution – Bryan, Bryan, Bryan … off your meds again, I see.
- Joe the Plumber Is Running For Congress [Candidates] – (Rolls eyes.)
- WIN: I Hope This Adds a +2 to His Defense – Ooooh. I would have wanted one of these in school. (Probably just as well I didn’t have one.)
- NYT editorial spells out what #OccupyWallStreet wants – “It is not the job of the protesters to draft legislation. That’s the job of the nation’s leaders, and if they had been doing it all along there might not be a need for these marches and rallies. Because they have not, the public airing of grievances is a legitimate and important end in itself.”
- The Hungry Muppet: Our National Shame
- GOP Rep: ‘We can’t allow’ more coverage of Occupy Wall Street | The Raw Story – Heaven forbid folks in the streets should shape policy. Unless, y’know, they’re waving tea bags around.
- AFP: Did chemical reactions cause Twin Towers collapse? – Some interesting speculation here.
- Financial Romanticism – NYTimes.com – Laissez-faire works just as well — and as pitilessly — as Darwinian natural selection. You may very well end up with a most-fit outcome, but you’ll also end up with a lot of extinctions and population crashes along the way.
- World’s Largest Shopping Mall is Empty: Joanna Ong
- What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs – It’s been interesting watching the coverage of Jobs on his passing — from the immediate hagiography to the legitimate critiques (and less legitimate iconoclasm) of his practices and philosophy. Let’s say that, like the hypothetical TIME Man of the Year, he was a man who had a tremendous impact and leadership in the realm of IT and consumer electronics. Like Ford and Edison, he was a seminal figure in his field, and like both those men, there was a lot both to admire and criticize.
- Did Steve Jobs give good advice?
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