Linkfest: Sunday Updates
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Time to clean out the aggregator:
ITEM: President Bush signed into law theSoak the Rich Explode the Deficit Buy Votes for Incumbents Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. Estimated total cost to future taxpayers: $152 billion. McCain voted "Aye;" Clinton and Obama voted "Too Busy Campaigning." Lewis Black unavailable for comment.
ITEM: Self-loathing homosexual Larry Craig was formally reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee for frivolously trying to withdraw his guilty plea and for flashing his Senate business card to the arresting sergeant. The committee also noted that Craig failed to seek permission from the Ethics Committee before using campaign funds to pay his legal bills. Most recent post here.
ITEM: Non-self-loathing homosexuals in New Jersey are not receiving what they were promised, and are legally entitled to, under that state's constitution. This according to a new report by the state's Civil Rights Commission, which has been investigating the issue for several months. Flagship post here.
ITEM: The Berkeley City Council has "moderated its position" regarding declaring Marine recruiters persona non grata within city limits. The activist legislators now merely proclaim their "opposition to the Iraq War." Previous post here (third item).
ITEM: Meanwhile, the Army has yet again enhanced the enticements to enlist, this time with a $40,000 bonus applicable to buying a house or starting a small business. Just not a gay house or business.
ITEM: The New York City Council is considering taxing cosmetic surgery. Why? Because they can. So says a specially commissioned report specifically charged with finding new things to tax. (PDF - 74 pages) New York would join other locales (and their malcontent apologists) who think that cosmetic surgery somehow generates externalities warranting a tax.
ITEM: The American law professor who penned a defense of the Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007 [H.R. 2003] and described her encounters with Ethiopia's thought police while on the faculty of a government-run Ethiopian university, has been fired — nominally for "incompetence." Previous post here.
ITEM: Remember how the video game Bioshock was widely considered to be based on, or a tribute to, or a mocking of, Ayn Rand's fiction? Well, here is a cross-interview (not a debate) between the game's creator, Ken Levine, and Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute. Previous post here.
ITEM: Want more police misconduct videos? Let's see ... we have: (a) Deputy Dude and the Skateboard Scalawags; (b) The "Is He Really Quadriplegic?" Test, and (c) "We Strip Search Suspects and Victims." Did I mention Deputy Dude? Previous posts here and here.
ITEM: President Bush signed into law the
ITEM: Self-loathing homosexual Larry Craig was formally reprimanded by the Senate Ethics Committee for frivolously trying to withdraw his guilty plea and for flashing his Senate business card to the arresting sergeant. The committee also noted that Craig failed to seek permission from the Ethics Committee before using campaign funds to pay his legal bills. Most recent post here.
ITEM: Non-self-loathing homosexuals in New Jersey are not receiving what they were promised, and are legally entitled to, under that state's constitution. This according to a new report by the state's Civil Rights Commission, which has been investigating the issue for several months. Flagship post here.
ITEM: The Berkeley City Council has "moderated its position" regarding declaring Marine recruiters persona non grata within city limits. The activist legislators now merely proclaim their "opposition to the Iraq War." Previous post here (third item).
ITEM: Meanwhile, the Army has yet again enhanced the enticements to enlist, this time with a $40,000 bonus applicable to buying a house or starting a small business. Just not a gay house or business.
ITEM: The New York City Council is considering taxing cosmetic surgery. Why? Because they can. So says a specially commissioned report specifically charged with finding new things to tax. (PDF - 74 pages) New York would join other locales (and their malcontent apologists) who think that cosmetic surgery somehow generates externalities warranting a tax.
ITEM: The American law professor who penned a defense of the Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007 [H.R. 2003] and described her encounters with Ethiopia's thought police while on the faculty of a government-run Ethiopian university, has been fired — nominally for "incompetence." Previous post here.
ITEM: Remember how the video game Bioshock was widely considered to be based on, or a tribute to, or a mocking of, Ayn Rand's fiction? Well, here is a cross-interview (not a debate) between the game's creator, Ken Levine, and Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Institute. Previous post here.
ITEM: Want more police misconduct videos? Let's see ... we have: (a) Deputy Dude and the Skateboard Scalawags; (b) The "Is He Really Quadriplegic?" Test, and (c) "We Strip Search Suspects and Victims." Did I mention Deputy Dude? Previous posts here and here.
Posted by Kip on
17 February 2008
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