Linkage 9/4
Noble — Fri, 09/04/2009 - 05:25
I appreciate all of the comments, and I'm sorry I'm not getting back to them. I'm in a bit of a blogger's funk at the moment.
Current issues
- Rice Farmer - Solar Panels and Dust (Rice Farmer is a blog I've added to my regular reading, very interesting posts. A common topic is the limitations of renewable energy.)
- Rice Farmer - Brave New World of Chaos
- Rice Farmer - Systemic Breakdown and Non-State Actors
- Below the Beltway - Top Obama Adviser is 9/11 Truther (looks like he's already apologized and backed away from the statements and GOP members are calling for his resignation)
- Below the Beltway - 'Clunkers' Rebate is Taxable
- Injustice Everywhere - Criminal Cops of the Week Time! (TLC runs a new show with slogans that encourage police brutality, such as "Cavity search, anyone?" and "It's always a good time to taser someone!")
- DUI Blog - DUI cops inspired by CIA (Man passes breathalyzer test, so he's shackled to a hospital bed and forcibly catheterized for a urine sample)
- EFF - Cybersecurity Act Returns with a Fresh Coat of Paint
- Wired - Wikipedia to color code untrustworthy text
- We're Only Human - A Cognitive Metamorphosis (I'm a sucker for Kafka. This article suggests that the bizarre and surreal stirs a psychological need for order and stability in the reader/observer. This might explain a motive for TV news being so insane.)
- Wall Street Journal - The Coming FDIC Bailout
- AlterNet - Why One Night Stands Are Good for You (I can't make this stuff up.)
Cremation of (Health) Care
- Newsweek - The Health Insurers Have Already Won (While they pretend to lobby and astroturf against it, in truth they are salivating over this new captive market.)
- Wall Street Journal - Health-Care Anger has Deeper Roots (No shit, Sherlock)
- Nicholas Kristof - Until Medical Bills do us Part (A sad story of how caretakers of long-term patients are encouraged to divorce in order to save their estate.)
- National Journal - Health Care Debate Revives Tort Reform Debate (caps on medical malpractice lawsuits)
- UK Guardian - Pfizer drug breach ends in biggest US crime fine
From the Vaults
- EFF - Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service Case Archive (the classic story of how the creator of GURPS, Car Wars, and the Illuminati card game was raided by the Secret Service)
- Counterpunch - No Regrets: Carter, Brzezinski, and the Muj (What, me apologize?)
- MIT Tinfoil Hat Analysis (Turns out it might not be so good for blocking out the CIA/Alien signals.)
…think of an experience from your childhood, something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell as if you were really there. After all, you were really there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell. You weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever YOU are, therefore; YOU are not the stuff of which you are made. If that doesn’t make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.
Noble, the link for "Wall
J. Wagner (not verified) — Fri, 09/04/2009 - 07:24Fixed, and thank you. Sheesh,
Noble (not verified) — Fri, 09/04/2009 - 08:54No worries! Nothing a quick
J. Wagner (not verified) — Fri, 09/04/2009 - 15:37It's a long lasting funk.
Paul (not verified) — Thu, 10/22/2009 - 20:25Wherefore art thou, Noble
Paul M. Peterson (not verified) — Mon, 11/02/2009 - 09:20