January 13, 2004
Clearing Off The Desktop
Good stuff that I've neglected to link to, and some that I've just found today, follows...
Salon explores the Dean hostile media.
The Sideshow has some good campaign trail links, and loads of other goodies. As usual, scroll around over there with abandon, but I'm linking here to a piece she recommended about anti-Dean country.
Late Night Thoughts (yay, she's back!) has some thoughts about universal health care.
And maybe it really is about time. Democracy Now reported on the shocking stories of people who are arrested for non-payment of hospital bills. Bills that can be up to five times as high for the uninsured, who are the likeliest to wind up using already expensive emergency room care.
Calpundit notes that, just as I feared, the Republicans want to use the proposed Moon and Mars missions to shut down pesky global warming research, also, he suggests that the Republican party's adoption of liberal sounding rhetoric proves that, in fact, Democratic policies have won the hearts and minds debate in America. Too bad the Republicans seem to have realized that before the Democratic party leaders. Mr. Drum is also surprised that Grover Norquist is now called center right, just as surprised as I was when I heard David Frum (at least, I think it was Frum) refer to George Bush as center left this evening.
Al Jazeera writes about environmental concerns in Palestine, the US' plummeting popularity in Indonesia, and a parliamentary crisis in Iran spurred by the Guardian Council's decision to block thousands of reformers from running for office, including sitting members of parliament.
Eschaton catches alarmed media people talking about blogs, notes that wounded soldiers are being ignored, and has more about the administration's plans for NASA.
The Daily Howler spotlights the media's tedious obsession with politicians' clothing. After reading that, and listening to an ungodly amount of Michael Jackson coverage on purportedly serious shows, I realized why the Daily Show is so popular as a news source. Because they don't pretend like this mindnumbing, thought-deadening, utterly ridiculous bunk deserves to be taken seriously. Is it really necessary, CNN, to spend as much time discussing the hotel the Jackson team is meeting in as you spend covering the Paul O'Neill story?
Confined Spaces cites Senator Lautenberg (thank you for coming out of retirement, sir) blasting OSHA for taking insufficient action to prosecute workplace deaths, and talks about the possibility that the proposed immigration reform might decrease workplace safety for immigrants.
The story of an Iraqi who married a Palestinian, who sees herself as continuing a 'family tradition' of marrying people with strange passports.
Liberal Oasis on the smearing of MoveOn, and here we get last Sunday's talking head recap.
Pandagon captured a couple of my favorite campaign quotes from a great Daily Show episode, noting also that the poor-as-dirt people of Nigeria are the happiest people in the world.
Over at American Street, our very intrepid Mary writes about Democratic Party Politics.
Body and Soul posted a lovely Italian Christmas story.
How to Save the World discusses the IMF unease about the way US debt menaces the world economy. He predicts that we will have reason to commiserate with the Argentinians. Also, he suggests the end of work, a view taken up by a recent ZNet column calling for a universal living wage.
The Black Commentator is alarmed at the blow a declining US economy could deal to black America's economic opportunities. (Update: Neglected to note that this link came courtesy of the proprietress of Veiled4Allah.
Warblogging explains what your bank statement says about you, and why no one but your financial institution should be allowed to see that information without probable cause.
Autism news: A team of pediatricians puts out a book on how to best help Quirky Kids. A boy with the mild form of autism known as Asperger's is dismissed from school, even though many individuals with this particular type of autism used to commonly reach adulthood without ever being diagnosed with anything other than eccentricity. The Guardian reports on the literature prizes won by a popular story about an autistic child.
From the About.com humor archive, we get a Republican in Hell. Yesterday we were campaigning. Ha!
This is from a while back, but I just dug up this moderately interesting Slashdot interview with a lobbyist.
Seeing The Forest notes that Paul Krugman has taken it upon himself, among all his fellows in the media, to point out the different response speeds in the O'Neill smear campaign and the still-dragging Plame case.
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