The Prez is starting to grow a pair and contrast himself from the uncaring bastards of the GOP.
More of this please.
Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk | Great Performances | PBS Video
Hugh Laurie makes good music. Check it out:
Sunday Morning had a nice story on his music, but they inexplicably haven’t put the video online.
All that’s gold doesn’t glitter – Global Public Square
Some common sense on the latest gold rush, courtesy of Fareed Zakaria.
In short, if you are betting on the end of the world, you’d be better off stockpiling bullets and beans. Until then, go seek therapy.
Inside The Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma | Magazine
A good story on the numbers station known as the “Buzzer”. Read it and read more on it.
Alabama Town Offers ‘Church Or Jail’ Sentencing Choice | TPMMuckraker
Alabama wants to give it’s lawbreakers a choice: do your jail time or go to church.
One, of course, this is unconstitutional to the core.
Two, wouldn’t this revoke a church’s tax free status?
Three, this proves that even Christians believe that going to church is punishment.
Rat cyborg gets digital cerebellum
So they figured out how to give a rat a cyborg brain.
Hell, all I wanted was some backup storage so I wouldn’t need Wikipedia or a GPS for the car.
Catch of the Day: Plastic
Other species must constantly shake their heads at the mess we humans leave lying around.
Case in point, the piles of plastic we leave floating around in the Pacific. Take a look.
I remember seeing an art exhibit at Portland Community College when I was interviewing there. All the pieces were made from plastic collected from the ocean. Here is a writeup on the exhibit.
A State Without Mexicans? | Mother Jones
In Alabama, like Georgia and North Carolina before them, racism is put above both economic and civil rights concerns as the state basically makes it illegal to be brown.
Sure, there are undocumented and falsely documented workers in this country. Either find a way to get them to work legally or find a way to pay Americans enough to do the work. Because, whatever the current laws are trying to do is just going to make a lot of folks hungry, both the workers not getting paid, the farmers fined or forced out of business, and the rest of us paying more for smaller amounts of food as it rots in the fields.
Short-sighted and cruel conservatives will truly be the undoing of this nation if their agenda can’t be stopped. Or at least turned to productive ends. Laws like the one mentioned sure as hell won’t do the job.
Geeky Destinations and Smart Side Trips | Wired.com
Some ideas on not only where, but how to get to, some geeky destinations.
GeekDad covered something similar recently with a much more local-friendly site called NerdyDayTrips. You can read the review here. I already have a few ideas on things to do around here.