Sentential Links (Page 20)

Wow, I’ve done 180 of these posts now. Where does the madness end! Where, I ask you!!! Anyhow, the linkage: :: I’ve long wondered if there would be a point at which Sarah Palin went just a little too far for the political mainstream. A whole lot of political observers noticed the obvious lies, the cringe-worthy ignorance, the petty feuds, and the bizarre behavior, but wanted to maintain the fiction that Palin was a credible political figure. After all, John McCain wanted her to be one heartbeat from the presidency — and 60 million Americans agreed. Maybe, just maybe, herDown the rabbit hole….

Links…. :: And remember this above all: the Republican making-shit-up industry is still the world’s finest. :: Being an adult who never completely grew up is so much more fun than being an actual kid. :: I am Praying for your soul, as only a truly evil person would put Diet Coke in the Cherry Coke dispenser. :: 3:57pm: Nap nixed. Went to driving range and supervised. Gave no free advice. Contemplated plaid shorts vs. khakis. Plaid wins. :: We decided we’d prefer to save a few bucks every quarter than be responsible for our poorest and most helpless fellowDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage…. :: Dearest David, I am returning the beautiful necklace you gave me – not as a gesture if finality of our friendship, but because it is a special token in your family and I could not in good conscience keep it. (Longtime readers will remember my fascination with finding old things left in old books; unearthing such items is a wonderful side-effect of haunting used bookstores and library book sales, and I wrote a story around such an event. This is a blog, new to me, that catalogs such finds. :: When did the profit motive become the onlyDown the rabbit hole….

Time for linkage. :: And, jam on fresh bread is a perfectly acceptable dinner. :: Can you see what’s wrong with this book cover? I’d say it’s either that Loring picked the worst possible title for a novel about the horsey set or that whoever painted the art read neither the book nor its title. :: Who knew sex is fun? Alert the media! :: It’s not enough now to just be a lite version of a Rush Limbaugh clone. You have to now go full wingnut and parrot the paranoid talking points of a Glenn Beck to be consideredDown the rabbit hole….

Links, for your clicking pleasure. :: For some reason, though, conservatives and libertarians like to pretend that these basic rules don’t exist when it comes to health care, that if we just did away with Medicare, Medicaid, and various regulations, the market would somehow magically produce affordable medical care and health insurance for everyone, including the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions. It is difficult to overstate how divorced from reality this fantasy is. :: The glory of Tim’s is that everybody in Canada is familiar with it and it’s okay food; CEOs eat Tim’s donuts as often as theirDown the rabbit hole….

Linking the linkable…. :: Let me say that I’ve really enjoyed this rare Friday-off three day weekend. I think it’s been a lot more fun than your traditional Monday-off three dayer. I think it’s the difference between a weekend that psychologically feels like it has two Saturdays and a weekend that psychologically feels like it has two Sundays. (That’s pretty much the whole post, but I agree, which is why whenever I take long weekends from work I generally try to do Friday off rather than Monday. It just feels more like time off that way — a day offDown the rabbit hole….

Links for the link-hungry: :: It was a surprising loss of an icon that many of us grew up with. And, for better or worse, when those things that connect us to a happier past are gone, it makes us feel a little more removed from that past. Of course I know that there are more important issues to worry about. But, as a human being, I am capable of caring about more than one thing at a time. :: We would still need to have conversations about our argument, we would need to apologize and let go, and talkDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage…always linkage…. :: It is not comforting to me that we seem to be leaving the makeup of the Supreme Court to the admissions committees at the Yale and Harvard Law Schools. :: If you’re a citizen of a state other than ours, you can be forgiven for thinking that New York follows the accepted and established forms of governance to be found elsewhere. Nothing could be further from the truth. (Our State Senate debacle in a nutshell. Ugh. Both of these links via.) :: Whenever I find myself talking about new media to skeptics of an older generation whoDown the rabbit hole….

Time for the clicking of links. :: This is a disgrace, and is emblematic of everything that’s wrong with Buffalo. (Some salty language here, but seriously, what Alan’s describing here and in a series of subsequent posts is nauseating. It’s sometimes as if Buffalo enjoys sucking.) :: Official Russian history. The gold standard for truth and objectivity. :: It’s interesting to me to see how my perspective on stories and characterization has evolved over the years; TRUE LIES is a quite different experience for me now than I remember it being on first, or subsequent viewings. (I wish I couldDown the rabbit hole….

Linkage for the weary: :: Look, it’s not racist to oppose a Latina judicial nominee, or to oppose affirmative action, or to point out genuine evidence of ethnic bias on the part of minorities. What we’re seeing here, though, is people clinging to the belief that Sotomayor has to be some mediocrity who struck the ethnic jackpot, that whatever benefit she got from affirmative action must be vastly more significant than her own qualities, that she’s got to be a harpy boiling with hatred for whitey, however overwhelming the evidence against all these propositions is. This is really profoundly ugly.Down the rabbit hole….