Thursday Night Linkdump
* I hope someday my admirers are moved to unearth my terrible college fiction: Wes Anderson’s “The Ballad of Reading Milton” (1989).
* The true size of Africa. Also has the true side of Australia and the USA as a bonus.
* Liberal blogs are trotting out cell phone effect again. Looks like it’s time to call November for the GOP.
* “In these challenging economic times, it’s good to know you can get some financial protection for unexpected illness and injury to your pets,” the e-mail reads before listing the many benefits. Federal Employees Can Purchase Health Insurance For Their Pets, But Not Their Same-Sex Partners.
* Running it up the flagpole: Wheel of Fortune‘s Pat Sajak argues at National Review Online that public employees shouldn’t be allowed to vote in at last some state and local state elections.
* And in twenty years, we’ll need another Earth to sustain us. Time to get building.
Written by gerrycanavan
October 14, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
Tagged with 1989, 2010, Africa, cell phone effect, conservatives, Defense of Marriage Act, democracy, ecology, elections, health care, insurance, juvenilia, maps, marriage equality, Pat Sajak, permaculture, politics, polls, short stories, sustainability, welcome to my past, Wes Anderson, writing
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I suppose I’m a little late to comment on Sajak’s rambling, but here is my two cents anyway:
When the state I work for has a budget crisis (like this year and the next two), there are two major options to get back to even – cut spending and raise taxes. In my case that means my salary/benefits/etc get cut, but then I am taxed more heavily on what remains. Every move is likely to impact me two fold and for that I should get less power to vote?
EMG
October 22, 2010 at 2:06 pm