Link Digest

[autographedcat]

Various links collected over the last couple of weeks. These were originally posted to my Twitter account.

Politics - US National

• In the spirit of unity and reconciliation, a photo montage from humourist ZeFrank. (Apropos of this, I seriously miss ZeFrank's video blog.)
  
• TPM blogger Enghis has fun deconstructing the pundits. And they said satire was dead.
  
• That noted left-wing rag, The Economist, examines the decline of the Republican Party.
  
• Neal Gabler suggests in an Los Angeles Times op-ed piece that the roots of modern conservatism lie more in McCarthy than Goldwaterr.
  

Politics - LGBT Edition

• osewalrus contemplates the dynamics of the marriage rights movement in the aftermath of Prop 8. Very interesting thoughts here, and worth reading.
  
• The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy organization, offers a free buyers guide, rating various companies on their policies with regards to LGBT issues..
  

Culture

• Henry Alford is polite so that you don't have to be. (This might particularly interest ozarque -- I'd be curious to her reaction to it.)
  
• Why "Come On, Eileen" is a timeless and enduring classic. Hey, eloren, they're playing your song!
  
• An interview with Russel Shorto, author of Descarte's Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason,
  
• A book review of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Speices, published in the July 1860 issue of The Atlantic magazine.
  
• Blogger Karen Polland is somewhat taken aback to find some of her friends think that Charles Schulz's Peanuts may be inappropriate for children.
  

Comments

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Great pics from ZeFrank - but what is the significance of "52" and "48"? I had thought it meant the percentages of voters who voted for Obama and McCain, respectively, but the messages in the pics seem to contradict that notion in spots.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Here's the original solicitation for contributions, and the blog post that prompted it.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the explanatory links...but the cynic in me wonders whether we'd be seeing all this magnanimous "reaching out" imagery if McCain had won, or if we'd just have a repeat of SorryEverybody.com instead.

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

I really got confused by "52" and "48" too, and Rob's links didn't clarify that for me. (For the record, to the nearest percentage point, Obama won 53% of the popular vote, McCain 46%, and 1% other.)

[anaisdjuna.livejournal.com]

I really like del.icio.us for saving links. Easy one step click. You can index them and see what kinds of cool stuff friends or interesting people are saving also.

[clawfoot.livejournal.com]

Henry Alford is polite so that you don't have to be.

Welcome to being Canadian! We do that all the time. I'm not sure we could stop if we wanted to.

[madfilkentist]

The article you mention is about the roots of modern conservatism. The Republican Party is much older than either McCarthy or Goldwater.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

True. I meant to write "the modern GOP", but I lost a word. I will correct.