Links With Your Coffee - Tuesday

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- George Monbiot: Lord Keynes really did propose the International Monetary Fund | Comment is free | The Guardian (tip to pedantsareus)
Poor old Lord Keynes. The world's press has spent the past week blackening his name. Not intentionally: most of the dunderheads reporting the G20 summit that took place over the weekend really do believe that he proposed and founded the International Monetary Fund. It's one of those stories that passes unchecked from one journalist to another. The truth is more interesting. At the UN's Bretton Woods conference in 1944, John Maynard Keynes put forward a much better idea. After it was thrown out, Geoffrey Crowther - then the editor of the Economist magazine - warned that "Lord Keynes was right ... the world will bitterly regret the fact that his arguments were rejected." But the world does not regret it, for almost everyone - the Economist included - has forgotten what he proposed.
- Dallas - Unfair Park - It's Science: Ninety-Nine Percent of Texas Science Professors Surveyed Don't Believe in Intelligent Design
- Guardian: Hillary To Accept State - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
- Uproar Over Federal Drilling Leases Next To Parks | CommonDreams.org
The view of Delicate Arch natural bridge - an unspoiled landmark so iconic it's on Utah's license plates - could one day include a drilling platform under a proposal that environmentalists call a Bush administration "fire sale" for the oil and gas industry.
- Oh Noz!! I spammed my frenz!! — Listics
A treat for Opera fans.
- Critics rebel against Charles, the man who would be king - and still air his own views | UK news | The Guardian
At the risk of offending my British friends; really the Prince has knowledge to share. He seems to me to be nothing more than a clown with strong opinions, none of them particularly well informed. He is a product of inbreeding run amok.
- Dispatches from the Culture Wars: The Perfect Christmas Symbol


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