WTF

Yep.

links for 2008-09-24

• A Nation of Masochists
  It's the only explanation that the polls are close. Well, that plus racism.
  (tags: politics)

links for 2008-09-23

• Teach Philosophy 101
  A resource page for teachers of introductory philosophy
  (tags: philosophy education em)
• 'Angler' Takes Measure Of Cheney's Influence
  Awesome "Fresh Air" on the evil incarnate that calls itself "Dick Cheney"
  (tags: politics)
• No Deal on the bailout
  Screw them; don't give away the store to the moneychangers
  (tags: economics)
• Old-Fashioned Men Make More Money?
  Or do men who make more money think they own their wives?
  (tags: sexism economics)
• Government bailouts at BuyMyShitPile.com
  Hey Washington, can you buy my bad investments too?
  (tags: economics)
• Free Alternatives to Replace Jott's Functions
  Now that Jott is out of beta, there's less free stuff
  (tags: tech lifehacks)

links for 2008-09-21

• Will racism stop Obama?
  More scary polls on how big bigotry could be in the election
  (tags: politics, racism)
• Watch TV like a pirate
  Where to get mainstream TV over the net
  (tags: TV video)
• NYTimes Picks Five Online Academic Lectures
  And Open Culture links to a bunch more
  (tags: academia video lectures em)
• The 5 stages of reaction to Palin on the GOP ticket
  1. Astonishment. 2. Perverse joy. 3. Disbelief. 4. Anger. 5. Abject terror.
  (tags: politics)
• Palin's Wasilla charged victims for rape kits
  The only town in Alaska to do so; practice halted by state government
  (tags: politics gender)
• Sam Harris on Palin and Anti-Elitism
  Sarah Palin represents—and her supporters celebrate—the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance
  (tags: politics religion)

links for 2008-09-20

• Bush seeks $700 billion financial bailout
  Republicans continue to raid the store before running away and leaving us with the mess
  (tags: finance economics politics)

links for 2008-09-19

• The failure of the market
  "We have the irony of a free-market administration doing things that the most liberal Democratic administration would never have been doing in its wildest dreams.”
  (tags: economics)
• Conservatives Startle more easily?
  Likely bullshit, but kind of funny
  (tags: politics psychology)
• EFF Sues NSA, Bush, & Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance
  New Legal Challenge to Unconstitutional Domestic Spying
  (tags: politics bush law privacy)

links for 2008-09-16

• Born Homo Homo?
  Yet another genetic theory of homosexuality
  (tags: science sexuality psychology)

links for 2008-09-15

• The Giant Pool of Money
  Understand the current financial crisis, courtesy of "This American Life"
  (tags: economics em)
• Will the U.S. financial system collapse today, or maybe over the next few days?
  The banks begin to fall…
  (tags: economics)
• McCain's McLies McGamble
  McCain campaign just lies without limits
  (tags: mccain politics lies)

links for 2008-09-12

• Palin advocates war with Russia
  Because it's part of the biblical apocalypse, of course
  (tags: politics)

links for 2008-09-11

• NYTimes on Salvia Divinorum
  Popularity of the hallucinogen grows
  (tags: drugs)
• Getting a SPUI
  Albany area to get its first "Single Point Urban Interchange"
  (tags: albany-area)