Post-exam link catchup.
* Today's abolish-the-Senate factoid: The 10 Senators on the Senate Finance Committee who voted for the public option yesterday represent millions more people than the 13 who voted against it. Dramatically depowering or outright eliminating the Senate should be near the top of any long-term political agenda for progressives. Also in Senate health care news: Tom Harkin says the public option has the votes to pass, while Ben Nelson thinks it's 2008.
* I don't usually play look-at-the-wingnut, but John Derbyshire says women shouldn't have the right to vote because we "got along like that for 130 years." Also, we should repeal civil rights legislation because it's wrong to "try to force people to be good." Well done, sir.
* Okay, a second round of look-at-the-wingnut: Newsmax ran a column yesterday advocating a military coup to solve "the Obama problem." Remember, conservatives love America and progressives hate America.
* Corzine continues to gain in New Jersey, with independent Chris Daggett now polling at 12%.
* Background ephemera from the new Red Dawn remake. It sounds like the Commies may have a point in this one.
* Where Superman gets his powers. At MeFi.
* New Scientist is having a flash fiction contest.
* Another entry in Jonathan Lethem's ten-million-part series on why he loves Philip K. Dick.
* People think torture works because it works in movies.
* New favorite song: Zork rock. (You know where I found it.)
* Also from Boing Boing: Trotsky: The Graphic Biography.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sunday night links.
* Is Twitter the Drudge Killer? We can only dare to hope.
* The Art of the Movie Poster. (Thanks, Ron!)

* Accusations from the left that Obama was behind Honduras's coup seem completely unfounded.
* Sanford says he won't resign. Okay, then, impeachment.
* Steve Benen against bipartisanship. Also at Washington Monthly: early movement towards fixing the Democratic primaries for 2012 and beyond.
* Krugman has had a very good series of posts this weekend trying to bash denialist talking points on climate change. Here's the chart that dismantles the "we've been cooling since 1998" canard:
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Labels: Are the primaries over yet?, Barack Obama, bipartisanship is bunk, climate change, coups, Drudge, Honduras, Kill Bill, Krugman, Mark Sanford, movie posters, Planet of the Apes, politics, Twitter