Links With Your Coffee - Wednesday
- Polls: Obama leads in critical trio of states - Yahoo! News
The Democrat's support jumped to 50 percent or above in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania in Quinnipiac University surveys taken during the weekend — after the opening presidential debate and during Monday's dramatic stock market plunge as the House rejected a $700 billion financial bailout plan.
- Trying to make sense of it all… — Listics
First, dash over to Salon and read this Tom Tomorrow cartoon. It establishes some context for the bail out proposal. Now let’s look at derivatives — investments (or “bets”) that are meant to spread and reduce portfolio risk. Thanks to RB for forwarding this, it originated here.
- The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » McCain to Replace Palin, With Tina Fey
- 75 Books Every Woman Should Read: The Complete List I've only read 19 in this list.
- Joho the Blog » Letting the FOX count the hens
- Palin's troubles mount for McCain | Reuters
- Palin believes dinosaurs and men once coexisted - Boing Boing
- xkcd - A Webcomic - Fiction Rule of Thumb
- Why Bother?
Yes. What's wrong with it is the implicit assumption that passionately held convictions deserve - perhaps even have a 'right' to? - forebearance and polite silence. But convictions aren't things that need or ought to have forebearance and polite silence. Convictions that can't survive the encounter with other convictions probably aren't worth passionate tenacity; at any rate it isn't possible to protect them without paralyzing mental life, and a universally paralyzed mental life is not a good thing.
- An Ode To Crybaby Republicans » Mad Kane's Political Madness
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Here is my latest attempt at entertaining the masses with my skewed worldview and Ron Paul fetish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HYAgNdHmGs
Looked at the woman's list :) I've read 32 but, gotta say, I think there are some kind of weak choices on there. Looking at the comments, I found an interesting 30 books before you're 30 list.
Quite an interesting list the 30 by 30. I read 16 of them before I turned 30 and have read 23 of them overall. It's not fair though, I'm sure some of those were published long after I turned 30.
Every semester I teach three of the books on the 30 under 30 list in my core curriculum course.
I just thought of a great idea for a book list: "Read This Not That", a variation of the diet book "eat this not that". The idea is that there are very popular books that do a certain thing much worse than other books that people don't know as well. So don't read "To Kill a Mockingbird", read "The Invisible Man" or "All God's Dangers". Don't read "Uncle Tom's Cabin", read the slave narratives of Frederick Douglass. And don't read Ayn Rand, read Nietzsche or Hayek instead, depending on what you think she's doing.
I think that's a really great idea! (It's funny - I never thought of it until you said it but you could do that for almost everything - music, movies, art...) What are the three you teach or do they vary? Is this a known list?
And speaking of this not that - in some recent wanderings, one of the books said it was like but better than Catch 22. I didn't make a mental note because it was somewhere I thought I was going to return (the list of books for men?) but, if someone knows off the top of their heads, that would be great.
"The Democrat's support jumped to 50 percent or above in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania"
sh!t i hope so. sent obama's campaign some more hard earned dough yesterday. please let this BS end. love you all.
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