Weekend link dump for October 11

Windows 7 for the economic recovery.

Apparently, it’s not possible for some people to be so egregiously wrong about something that they get disqualified from being consulted as experts about the thing they were so egregiously wrong about.

Case in point: Whoever said “Honesty is the best policy” never met Betsy McCaughey.

If strip clubs are an indicator, the economy is indeed getting better.

Save the Ta-Tas. And if you don’t like that message, read this.

What is the world coming to when an elected official can’t brag about banging lobbyists without getting hassled by The Man?

The privacy problem we actually do have.

A chat with Berke Breathed. I want a copy of that “Bloom County” compendium.

Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer ever.

Has George Will always been such a dishonest, lazy hack, or is this a relatively new thing?

Aren’t Christian conservatives always telling us that the Bible is inerrant? If so, then why are they trying to fix it? Isn’t that, like, sacreligious or something? Interestingly, I once debated a friend of mine about the Bible’s inerrancy. How can it be so, I asked him, if what we have today is a serious of human translations of the original text? His response was that God guided the work that those translators did, so that it remained His genuine words. I guess that’s not operative any more. Thank God (and I mean that) we have The Slactivist to put it all in perspective for us.

Houston by dart board.

It’s really starting to look like the stars are lining up not just for health care reform, but HCR with a public option. How robust that is, we don’t yet know. But as that plays out, here’s the argument for dropping the public option, as spelled out by my friend Hope Morrison.

Superhero Facebook status updates.

Good for you, BoingBoing. And screw you, Ralph Lauren. Via MeMo.

Doctors call for health care reform.

Will the Erin Andrews peeping tom case have a lasting effect on hotel security procedures?

DeLay versus Palin in a battle of the quitters. Everybody loses.

Meet the eigenharp.

I’ve never quite understood the appeal of gold as an investment, either.

My high school football team is called The Peglegs, so I’m not about to make fun of other schools’ mascots. And before you make fun of mine, see these.

Old school Google.

Teabagger, or tax dodger? You decide.

In case you don’t feel threatened enough, Fafblog! has you covered.

If you’re gay and want to get married, Iowa wants you.

Rep. Charlie Rangel needs to step down, at least from his committee chair. If he refuses, the Democratic leadership needs to force him to do so. No excuses.

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