Linkfest: Sunday Updates
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Time to clean out the aggregator —
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ITEM: The situation in Burma has become very troubling, as the military junta has cut off Internet access and apparently has spilled blood. It is for the moment very fashionable to care about Burma and to cheer on their protesting Buddhist monks, just as it is now very fashionable to call the country "Burma." Some of us, meanwhile, were well ahead of the curve.
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ITEM: The Senate is taking up a federal journalist shield law. I am on record as opposing "journalist privilege" for the simple reason that journalists are not privileged people. The Senate version does, on the other hand, extend to bloggers — a point of significant contention among various versions of the proposed privilege.
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ITEM: A proposal to implement the District Method of allocating Electoral College votes in California appears to have imploded. Watching the hysteria by radical liberals, who somehow consider California's 55 E.C. votes an entitlement, was both entertaining and informative. Most recent post here.
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ITEM: The Washington Post ran yet another feature article on the insanity underlying federal farm subsidies. This time we are shown how record high corn prices, proximately caused by Congress' capitulation to the ethanol mania, do not stop corn farmers — who are seeing both record incomes and record real estate prices for their farmland — from getting "annual automatic payments" of taxpayer money. The mind reels. Most recent post here.
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ITEM: The New Jersey government is undertaking a study to see whether that state's insulting "separate but equal" civil union regime for gay couples is indeed "equal." The answer, as we all knew from the outset, is of course, "Of course not."
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ITEM: A new study suggests that "in denial" gay college students (i.e., those who identify as straight but experience same-sex attraction) are significantly more likely than "out" students to ideate about suicide ("off the charts" is how the study's author describes it). "Out" gay youths are, meanwhile, also more likely to ideate about suicide than straight youths if they experience anti-gay harassment, but that is not new news. The study, meanwhile, was based on a relatively small sample size at the University of Washington; one wonders what kind of data a sample of students at Brigham Young or St. John's might produce. (Via InterstateQ.)
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ITEM: The situation in Burma has become very troubling, as the military junta has cut off Internet access and apparently has spilled blood. It is for the moment very fashionable to care about Burma and to cheer on their protesting Buddhist monks, just as it is now very fashionable to call the country "Burma." Some of us, meanwhile, were well ahead of the curve.
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ITEM: The Senate is taking up a federal journalist shield law. I am on record as opposing "journalist privilege" for the simple reason that journalists are not privileged people. The Senate version does, on the other hand, extend to bloggers — a point of significant contention among various versions of the proposed privilege.
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ITEM: A proposal to implement the District Method of allocating Electoral College votes in California appears to have imploded. Watching the hysteria by radical liberals, who somehow consider California's 55 E.C. votes an entitlement, was both entertaining and informative. Most recent post here.
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ITEM: The Washington Post ran yet another feature article on the insanity underlying federal farm subsidies. This time we are shown how record high corn prices, proximately caused by Congress' capitulation to the ethanol mania, do not stop corn farmers — who are seeing both record incomes and record real estate prices for their farmland — from getting "annual automatic payments" of taxpayer money. The mind reels. Most recent post here.
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ITEM: The New Jersey government is undertaking a study to see whether that state's insulting "separate but equal" civil union regime for gay couples is indeed "equal." The answer, as we all knew from the outset, is of course, "Of course not."
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ITEM: A new study suggests that "in denial" gay college students (i.e., those who identify as straight but experience same-sex attraction) are significantly more likely than "out" students to ideate about suicide ("off the charts" is how the study's author describes it). "Out" gay youths are, meanwhile, also more likely to ideate about suicide than straight youths if they experience anti-gay harassment, but that is not new news. The study, meanwhile, was based on a relatively small sample size at the University of Washington; one wonders what kind of data a sample of students at Brigham Young or St. John's might produce. (Via InterstateQ.)
Posted by Kip on
30 September 2007
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