[links] Link salad rings in Boxing Day
The trailer for Lakeside, the documentary about me and cancer, is up - Waterloo Productions has it.
Giving Mom’s Book Five Stars? Amazon May Cull Your Review - Hmmm. They need to do something about the review system, especially the one-star "punishment reviews" from the $9.99 ebook lunatics, but is this the way? Not that I care, it is Amazon after all. (Via my Dad.)
Crafty Peruvian spider builds its own decoy - (Via David Goldman.)
Termites act as tiny miners, lead humans to gold
Jack Klugman’s secret, lifesaving legacy - He once stormed the beaches of Normandy. He later stormed the beaches of the Senate. (Via danjite, among others.)
The Moral Animal - Religion binds individuals into groups through habits of altruism, creating relationships of trust strong enough to defeat destructive emotions. Nice of the author to say that. Has he looked at the public face of religion in the United States? Public religion in the US is not about altruism and trust. It's about hating gays and liberals, punishing women and the poor, persecuting private sexual behavior, and promoting conservative in-group politics. Those positions have come to define religion in the public square in this country, everything from the Mormon church's disgraceful support for Proposition 8 to the Catholic bishops' pathetic but adamant lies about the ACA and birth control. Not altruism, persecution.
DUI Charge: Jan. 4 Court Date for Idaho Sen. Crapo - Hey, lookie here, a Mormon teetotalling Republican senator arrested for DUI. Good thing we have decades of moral leadership from conservative politicians and media to demonstrate the private lives and personal errors of politicians are off limits. I'm sure Senator Crapo will receive the respectful treatment he deserves, just like the Clintons and the Obamas and Kennedys always did. Meanwhile, yet another conservative public scold is revealed as a inevitable hypocrite, but no one on the Right will care. Social conservatives, my ass. Look, Clinton's penis!
?otD: Do you box?
12/26/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 8.25 hours (8.0 hours solid, 0.25 hours napping)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (30 minutes on the stationary bike)
Weight: 210.8
Number of FEMA troops on my block confiscating firearms and shutting down the Internet: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Giving Mom’s Book Five Stars? Amazon May Cull Your Review - Hmmm. They need to do something about the review system, especially the one-star "punishment reviews" from the $9.99 ebook lunatics, but is this the way? Not that I care, it is Amazon after all. (Via my Dad.)
Crafty Peruvian spider builds its own decoy - (Via David Goldman.)
Termites act as tiny miners, lead humans to gold
Jack Klugman’s secret, lifesaving legacy - He once stormed the beaches of Normandy. He later stormed the beaches of the Senate. (Via danjite, among others.)
The Moral Animal - Religion binds individuals into groups through habits of altruism, creating relationships of trust strong enough to defeat destructive emotions. Nice of the author to say that. Has he looked at the public face of religion in the United States? Public religion in the US is not about altruism and trust. It's about hating gays and liberals, punishing women and the poor, persecuting private sexual behavior, and promoting conservative in-group politics. Those positions have come to define religion in the public square in this country, everything from the Mormon church's disgraceful support for Proposition 8 to the Catholic bishops' pathetic but adamant lies about the ACA and birth control. Not altruism, persecution.
DUI Charge: Jan. 4 Court Date for Idaho Sen. Crapo - Hey, lookie here, a Mormon teetotalling Republican senator arrested for DUI. Good thing we have decades of moral leadership from conservative politicians and media to demonstrate the private lives and personal errors of politicians are off limits. I'm sure Senator Crapo will receive the respectful treatment he deserves, just like the Clintons and the Obamas and Kennedys always did. Meanwhile, yet another conservative public scold is revealed as a inevitable hypocrite, but no one on the Right will care. Social conservatives, my ass. Look, Clinton's penis!
?otD: Do you box?
12/26/2012
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo brain)
Hours slept: 8.25 hours (8.0 hours solid, 0.25 hours napping)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (30 minutes on the stationary bike)
Weight: 210.8
Number of FEMA troops on my block confiscating firearms and shutting down the Internet: 0
Currently reading: The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks