[links] Link salad thinks it's fun to charter an accountant
A reader reacts to my recent Asimov's novella, "The Stars Do Not Lie" - They liked it.
Me Translate Funny One Day - How does humor translate? (Via rekre8.)
How to weaponize office supplies - Because zombies! (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)
Deck Hands for a Four Decade Journey
True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd - The color blue, nature and us. (Via my Dad.)
Denny's to Launch a Hobbit Menu Full of Hobbity Food - The End Times are upon us! Fly, you fools! (Thanks, I think, to Jersey Girl in Portland.)
Convincing Women in China They're Too Hairy - Creating inadequacies to sell people products. (Via danjite.)
Geology by Light Plane - Annotated aerial photographs of geology. Interesting stuff. (Thanks to Gary Dierks.)
That's Hot! Beetles Dance on Poop Balls to Keep Cool - I've been on dates like that.
Molecular analysis supports controversial claim for dinosaur cells - New evidence adds heat to the argument over prehistoric dinosaur tissue. Wow. Really? (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)
Flatly wrong global warming denial - Climate change denial is like virtually every other major position conservatives take these days. Wrong on the plain face of facts, unsupported by historical experience or future trends, and unpopular with people who have to actually experience the problem. So they lie.
The Gospel according to Obama - “No Christian says I believe in Jesus Christ and I reject the Bible,” Cass says. “These progressives who say they’re Christians are liars. They’re using Christianity as a guise to advance their own agenda.” Projection much, conservative America? (Snurched from Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
The Fraud of Voter Fraud - Ta-Nehisi Coates on current GOP efforts to steal the forthcoming election through wholesale voter suppression at the state level. The Republicans have said effect that it is better to deny hundreds of thousands of (likely Democratic) votes than allow a single fraudulent vote to go through. Note that there have been exactly thirteen cases of documented voter impersonation fraud (the kind of fraud these laws are allegedly intended to address) in the past decade, nationwide. On the other hand, registration fraud (not addressed by these laws) has been pursued wholesale, mostly by GOP groups. Republicans have also flatly stated that the new voter ID laws will deliver the election to Romney. Tell me again how this is a sincere desire for clean, fair elections? Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here but liberal bias.
Gay GOP group: Vote for Romney, he hates you - The bizarre endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans. That has the be the weirdest group in the conservative movement, bar none.
The Women in Mitt Romney’s Polygamous Heritage. Part Two. - Again, history, not politics. Though the timing of the posts remains curious to me, especially considering the largely conservative, largely apolitical blog they're appearing on.
All Of Mitt Romney's Fancy Lady Policies In One Handy Flowchart - Obviously subject to change depending on whatever new and different highly principled, severely conservative stance R. Money has taken in the last hour or two. (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)
Richard Mourdock: God at work if rape causes pregnancy - This is profoundly disgusting and immoral, not to mention profoundly cruel and ignorant. Why is any sane, humane citizen voting for the Republican party when the GOP endorses and encourages this kind of rhetoric? (And if you don't believe me on that, go read their national and state party platforms.) Both conservatism and religion in America today have become pathologized, and everything that is wrong with them is on gaudy display right here. This is not some lunatic fringe commentator on a Web site. This is a Republican senatorial candidate talking, echoing what we've heard from other major GOP candidates. The Democrats had the sense God gave a goose, they'd hang this statement around Mitt Romney's neck and every downballot GOP candidate in the United States. Are you proud of your Republican party?
?otD: Have you sailed the wide accountant sea?
10/24/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (WRPA, research for the Sekrit Projekt)
Body movement: 0.5 hour stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.5 hours
Weight: 229.4
Currently reading: n/a
Me Translate Funny One Day - How does humor translate? (Via rekre8.)
How to weaponize office supplies - Because zombies! (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)
Deck Hands for a Four Decade Journey
True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd - The color blue, nature and us. (Via my Dad.)
Denny's to Launch a Hobbit Menu Full of Hobbity Food - The End Times are upon us! Fly, you fools! (Thanks, I think, to Jersey Girl in Portland.)
Convincing Women in China They're Too Hairy - Creating inadequacies to sell people products. (Via danjite.)
Geology by Light Plane - Annotated aerial photographs of geology. Interesting stuff. (Thanks to Gary Dierks.)
That's Hot! Beetles Dance on Poop Balls to Keep Cool - I've been on dates like that.
Molecular analysis supports controversial claim for dinosaur cells - New evidence adds heat to the argument over prehistoric dinosaur tissue. Wow. Really? (Snurched from Steve Buchheit.)
Flatly wrong global warming denial - Climate change denial is like virtually every other major position conservatives take these days. Wrong on the plain face of facts, unsupported by historical experience or future trends, and unpopular with people who have to actually experience the problem. So they lie.
The Gospel according to Obama - “No Christian says I believe in Jesus Christ and I reject the Bible,” Cass says. “These progressives who say they’re Christians are liars. They’re using Christianity as a guise to advance their own agenda.” Projection much, conservative America? (Snurched from Slacktivist Fred Clark.)
The Fraud of Voter Fraud - Ta-Nehisi Coates on current GOP efforts to steal the forthcoming election through wholesale voter suppression at the state level. The Republicans have said effect that it is better to deny hundreds of thousands of (likely Democratic) votes than allow a single fraudulent vote to go through. Note that there have been exactly thirteen cases of documented voter impersonation fraud (the kind of fraud these laws are allegedly intended to address) in the past decade, nationwide. On the other hand, registration fraud (not addressed by these laws) has been pursued wholesale, mostly by GOP groups. Republicans have also flatly stated that the new voter ID laws will deliver the election to Romney. Tell me again how this is a sincere desire for clean, fair elections? Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here but liberal bias.
Gay GOP group: Vote for Romney, he hates you - The bizarre endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans. That has the be the weirdest group in the conservative movement, bar none.
The Women in Mitt Romney’s Polygamous Heritage. Part Two. - Again, history, not politics. Though the timing of the posts remains curious to me, especially considering the largely conservative, largely apolitical blog they're appearing on.
All Of Mitt Romney's Fancy Lady Policies In One Handy Flowchart - Obviously subject to change depending on whatever new and different highly principled, severely conservative stance R. Money has taken in the last hour or two. (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)
Richard Mourdock: God at work if rape causes pregnancy - This is profoundly disgusting and immoral, not to mention profoundly cruel and ignorant. Why is any sane, humane citizen voting for the Republican party when the GOP endorses and encourages this kind of rhetoric? (And if you don't believe me on that, go read their national and state party platforms.) Both conservatism and religion in America today have become pathologized, and everything that is wrong with them is on gaudy display right here. This is not some lunatic fringe commentator on a Web site. This is a Republican senatorial candidate talking, echoing what we've heard from other major GOP candidates. The Democrats had the sense God gave a goose, they'd hang this statement around Mitt Romney's neck and every downballot GOP candidate in the United States. Are you proud of your Republican party?
?otD: Have you sailed the wide accountant sea?
10/24/2012
Writing time yesterday: 2.0 hours (WRPA, research for the Sekrit Projekt)
Body movement: 0.5 hour stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.5 hours
Weight: 229.4
Currently reading: n/a