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Quick post for quick people. That said, it's always interesting when you want to leave for work and there's a fire truck or five in the way because a house down the street is smoking and there's no other road to get out on. That I made it to work when I did is actually kind of impressive. Can't be mad at the situation, because there wasn't really anything I could do to prevent it. Oh, well. Sometimes things go weird on you, and all you can do is wait for them to de-weird, or at least be navigably weird.
Internationally, election called in Canada, will take less time than scheduled Ameriacn election, and probably will be run with less corruption, too. Benazir Bhuto's widower will take power in Pakistan, The U.S. will sell nuclear technology to India,
Domestically, Church that says it welcomes GLBT, even though they believe they're sinners, puts up sign reading "I kissed a girl and I liked it, and I went to Hell". Cue spark of outrage. And the other side of the coin.
AARP sued for age discrimination, and the government takes over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In candidate opinions, Musings and Migraines suggests a return to the left as the successful Obama strategy,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
worldforger exhorts us all to do our own fact-checking, as s/he takes on much of the RNC and McCain campaign's distortions about Senator Obama, Burt Prelutsky claiming Senator Biden is the worst VP choice Senator Obama can make, Operation Street Corner, devoted to spreading an anti-Obama message through sandwich boards and displays on the street corners of America,
What will be made of Senator Obama saying that the surge has done better than expected, I wonder. The context, of course, is that the expectations weren't very high for this, and that it's not a complete success yet, but the country didn't collapse into civil strife and open warfare, so someone has to get credit for doing well.
On the other side of the aisle, the acceptance speech of Senator McCain.
Austin Cline on the Republican slogan "No, You Can't", a question on how a "family-values" person like Palin let her daughter become the spotlight of a media circus, and perhaps the deeper question behind it about how absolutely horrible it is for a teenager to get pregnant unintentionally, thanks to the lack of real education, the increased likelihood that the teen will have a life of poverty, thanks to the kid, and all the other parts that accompany it, including possible expulsions from school, community shame, parents who may throw the teen out... it's bad. Widespread availability and knowledge on birth control would be the cheapest way of going about trying to fix the problem, but if we can't get that, then how about a comprehensive family support system so that the kid who gets pregnant at 17 still has a shot at making a career and a life out of it, while being able to raise the child? Those are legitimate issues, even if it's not a smart strategy to highlight a daughter to attack a mother. Such things also open the media up to accusations of bias and trying to destroy Governor Palin by columnists, apparently for not splashing the front pages with Senator Obama's past with drugs as much as they're devoting to Governor Palin's daughter.
John Hawkins feels liberals hate and attack successful conservative women because liberals are utterly convinced of their own righteousness, and believe that nobody other than liberal white males are permitted to hold offices or have differing opinions. And they hate America, too. David Limbaugh agrees that liberals think "It's not sexist if we do it and are attacking conservatives". There are people of every stripe, of course, no both sides of the aisle. At least the nominally liberal candidate stood up and said, "I believe attacking the daughter is wrong", even if he knew it probably wouldn't stop anyone. Paul Greenebrg makes it an echo chamber, dismissing objections to Palin under the rubric that all the objections are really trying to make problems out of her genuinely American life and possibly jealousy of all the things that are going right for her - beauty, Supermom, high approval ratings and the like.
The otherwise perfect religious conservative candidate calling the attacks on Governor Palin "sexist" is probably worth a laugh. More candidate-specific humor includes Modern Major-General parodies of Palin's policies, comparisons of Republicans to Battlestar Galactica characters, Top Twenty lists on why Palin should be President, as well as a really big community organizer, and many more famous community organizers in icon form. Second set of community organizers here.
Elsewhere in opinions, a criticism of those who think the trans-simian age is fact approaching, Ed Feulner suggests that Americans push their agenda hard in the U.N. because of the money they give and set up places outside the U.N. so as to push that agenda even harder without any other strings, and Mark W. Hendrickson opines on the power media has to shape reality. so, like fact-check and check-in with the other side of the spectrum, too - even if all you get is bias from both ends. Somewhere through all of that, there's enough of the truth to construct the real thing. When those librarians made you evaluate your sources and decide if they were credible, they were preparing you for this.
In science and technology, A rare toddler display of super-strength, thanks to some genes all lining up just so, death threats given to those operating the Large Hadron Collider, including a choice quote in response calling those who think the LHC will end the world "twats", the closest look at a black hole yet, and why cell phones kind of suck, because they distract more than just you when they chirp.
Last for today, tetris brownies. And possibly, another Ghostbusters film. Finally, though, truthfully, productivity in Hell.
Internationally, election called in Canada, will take less time than scheduled Ameriacn election, and probably will be run with less corruption, too. Benazir Bhuto's widower will take power in Pakistan, The U.S. will sell nuclear technology to India,
Domestically, Church that says it welcomes GLBT, even though they believe they're sinners, puts up sign reading "I kissed a girl and I liked it, and I went to Hell". Cue spark of outrage. And the other side of the coin.
AARP sued for age discrimination, and the government takes over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
In candidate opinions, Musings and Migraines suggests a return to the left as the successful Obama strategy,
worldforger exhorts us all to do our own fact-checking, as s/he takes on much of the RNC and McCain campaign's distortions about Senator Obama, Burt Prelutsky claiming Senator Biden is the worst VP choice Senator Obama can make, Operation Street Corner, devoted to spreading an anti-Obama message through sandwich boards and displays on the street corners of America, What will be made of Senator Obama saying that the surge has done better than expected, I wonder. The context, of course, is that the expectations weren't very high for this, and that it's not a complete success yet, but the country didn't collapse into civil strife and open warfare, so someone has to get credit for doing well.
On the other side of the aisle, the acceptance speech of Senator McCain.
Austin Cline on the Republican slogan "No, You Can't", a question on how a "family-values" person like Palin let her daughter become the spotlight of a media circus, and perhaps the deeper question behind it about how absolutely horrible it is for a teenager to get pregnant unintentionally, thanks to the lack of real education, the increased likelihood that the teen will have a life of poverty, thanks to the kid, and all the other parts that accompany it, including possible expulsions from school, community shame, parents who may throw the teen out... it's bad. Widespread availability and knowledge on birth control would be the cheapest way of going about trying to fix the problem, but if we can't get that, then how about a comprehensive family support system so that the kid who gets pregnant at 17 still has a shot at making a career and a life out of it, while being able to raise the child? Those are legitimate issues, even if it's not a smart strategy to highlight a daughter to attack a mother. Such things also open the media up to accusations of bias and trying to destroy Governor Palin by columnists, apparently for not splashing the front pages with Senator Obama's past with drugs as much as they're devoting to Governor Palin's daughter.
John Hawkins feels liberals hate and attack successful conservative women because liberals are utterly convinced of their own righteousness, and believe that nobody other than liberal white males are permitted to hold offices or have differing opinions. And they hate America, too. David Limbaugh agrees that liberals think "It's not sexist if we do it and are attacking conservatives". There are people of every stripe, of course, no both sides of the aisle. At least the nominally liberal candidate stood up and said, "I believe attacking the daughter is wrong", even if he knew it probably wouldn't stop anyone. Paul Greenebrg makes it an echo chamber, dismissing objections to Palin under the rubric that all the objections are really trying to make problems out of her genuinely American life and possibly jealousy of all the things that are going right for her - beauty, Supermom, high approval ratings and the like.
The otherwise perfect religious conservative candidate calling the attacks on Governor Palin "sexist" is probably worth a laugh. More candidate-specific humor includes Modern Major-General parodies of Palin's policies, comparisons of Republicans to Battlestar Galactica characters, Top Twenty lists on why Palin should be President, as well as a really big community organizer, and many more famous community organizers in icon form. Second set of community organizers here.
Elsewhere in opinions, a criticism of those who think the trans-simian age is fact approaching, Ed Feulner suggests that Americans push their agenda hard in the U.N. because of the money they give and set up places outside the U.N. so as to push that agenda even harder without any other strings, and Mark W. Hendrickson opines on the power media has to shape reality. so, like fact-check and check-in with the other side of the spectrum, too - even if all you get is bias from both ends. Somewhere through all of that, there's enough of the truth to construct the real thing. When those librarians made you evaluate your sources and decide if they were credible, they were preparing you for this.
In science and technology, A rare toddler display of super-strength, thanks to some genes all lining up just so, death threats given to those operating the Large Hadron Collider, including a choice quote in response calling those who think the LHC will end the world "twats", the closest look at a black hole yet, and why cell phones kind of suck, because they distract more than just you when they chirp.
Last for today, tetris brownies. And possibly, another Ghostbusters film. Finally, though, truthfully, productivity in Hell.
