Visualizing Meaning � About the project

Faculty at Cornell were asked: "Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and ‘other’) you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable?" This site answers that question. Very cool.

www.dontclick.it

www.dontclick.it Don't click it. Seriously. Don't.

UP - United Professionals - Professionals deserve to earn a good living.

UP - United Professionals - Professionals deserve to earn a good living.
This new group founded by Barbara Ehrenriech looks to improve the lives of white-collar workers through attention to health care, debt, and displacement issues.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Last Outpost - TV Squad

Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, has a wonderful blog (temporarily here), and occasionally reviews old TNG episodes, such as this one. Hilariously, I hasten to add.

The Blog | Jane Smiley: CEO President | The Huffington Post

The Blog | Jane Smiley: CEO President | The Huffington Post

Haven't posted in a while and will explain later, but this essay is astoundingly good.

del.icio.us

I've been using my del.icio.us site to organize my bookmarks online so I'll always (at least as long as del.icio.us operates) have access to them if I don't have my computer or my thumb drive. Now that you can upload and import your bookmarks file into del.icio.us, it's really easy. The other advantage is that I can share them with other folks with the same interests. I didn't share them all at first, so I'm going to have to go through them and decide which ones to share (probably the vast majority). If any del.icio.us users happen upon this entry, check my site out, and be patient. If you don't use del.icio.us, check out my site anyway: you might decide to become a user.

TruthVendor.com

The Truth about "John F. Kennedy."

James Wolcott: Hellmouth Sets out the Welcome Mat

James Wolcott has some excerpts from various sources that put the Lebanon issue in deeper context.

Puritans to Prohibition

Puritans to Prohibition

Alcohol in the Colonial Era.

Daily Kos: SC-Gov: The national implications

A good take on South Carolina's gubernatorial politics from a correspondent on the DailyKos site.

Mike Whitney: Is Cheney Betting on Economic Collapse?

Mike Whitney: Is Cheney Betting on Economic Collapse?

information

This is the coolest site I've seen in a while. You can get further into the pictures forever. It's an infinite mosaic.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Thirteen Writing Prompts.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Thirteen Writing Prompts.

Dear NSA

Dear NSA

Does hating rock make you a music critic? By Jody Rosen

Does hating rock make you a music critic? By Jody Rosen

An interesting rock v. pop analysis.

This Modern World � Blog Archive � Bush & Nixon photo finish

This Modern World � Blog Archive � Bush & Nixon photo finish

Interesting.

Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Not Amused?

Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Not Amused?: "Turning to the war, he declared, 'I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.'"

Elvis, the world's smartest cow. By Jon Katz

Elvis, the world's smartest cow. By Jon Katz

I used to love the cows that inhabited the pasture behind my grandparents' house and trailer. I would stare at them, and they at me, for long minutes at a time. I've always wanted a cow of my own (and enough room and money to keep it), and Elvis seems like the kind of cow anyone would love to have around.

The problem with the United 93 films. By Ron Rosenbaum

The problem with the United 93 films. By Ron Rosenbaum

Depressing, but thoughtful and intelligent, unlike most of the 9/11 "analysis" to which we're subjected constantly. Even Brian Williams of NBC "News" used the new flight 93 movie to "remind us that we're at war." What arrogance!

Pharyngula: Look, Ma, I'm a "secular whackjob"!

Pharyngula: Look, Ma, I'm a "secular whackjob"!: "the absence of faith is not faith, any more than the absence of a sandwich is also a kind of tasty snack between two slices of bread."

Response to the article by Melinda Barton on Raw Story, which I posted in my previous entry. Myers took the time to analyze the Barton piece. I probably wouldn't have come up with quite as scathing a response, as it's not in my nature (or nurture: take your pick), but I think his decimation of Barton's article is right on.

But that brings up a different sort of problem. How do you deal with the political ramifications of "secularism"? There are a lot of people out there who perceive the Democratic Party as the party of godless license, and who vote otherwise or not at all because of this perception. These are people who vote against their own economic and political interests because they fear the outcome if some godless liberal managed to take office. How can Progressives build and maintain a "big tent" if we keep having these arguments over the nature and existence of god? Republicans seem somehow to have managed to bring together the Social (read, conservative Christian) Right and the Economic Right, despite their divergent interests, yet Democrats have difficulty appealing to groups with convergent interests because of divergent social views.