Reading in Public: Advice from the Pros — Alex Bledsoe collects some commentary in mini-interviews.
A baby sea-serpent no more: reinterpreting Hagelund’s juvenile Cadborosaurus — Some biology and cryptozoology neepery for you.
Space station dweller shares orbital views
Saudi women to be given right to vote and stand for election in four years — It would be very easy for me to be sarcastic about this in comparison to the deeply retrograde ambitions of the American Taliban within the GOP, but honestly, this is something to celebrate. Juan Cole comments further on this.
Presidential Candidates’ Positions on Gay Rights — A handy and interesting chart. No real surprises.
Our budget problem in two charts (and one issue) — (Thanks to ![[info]](https://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
danjite
Fla. GOP sweats over Social Security — Is it possible that for once the GOP’s nutball rhetoric might actually have consequences? Normally they have a permanent “get out of jail free” card from Your Liberal Media and the voters at large for their bizarre crap.
DNC Chair: All GOP candidates are “the same” — “It doesn’t much matter which one of the Republicans gets nominated because they’re all the same,” the Florida Democrat said. “They are all embracing and bear-hugging the Tea Party. Moving to the right – they can’t move to the right far enough.”
Birther Civil War Breaks Out Over Marco Rubio — Extremist idiocy breeds extremist idiots.
Obama says Republicans would ‘cripple’ America — Well, yeah. Look what they did to the country the last time they were in power. Why anybody who cares a whit about our future as a country would vote Republican is beyond me, on the simple face of the recent historical evidence.
?otD: Feeling the serenity?
9/26/2011
Writing time yesterday: 5.0 hours (novel outlining and short story revision, WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.25 hours (solid)
Weight: 222.2
Currently reading: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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