[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- 5 Browsers You've Never Heard Of
- Linux & All: "Over the past few years many different browsers have been created and become very popular for example Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, however, there are many browsers which are generally unheard of among the majority of web users. Here are 5 of them"
[My experience with browsers that run on Linux is that only Firefox remains stable when I indulge my habit of keeping 200 tabs open at once. -L]
- Uber-D'oh (Talking Points Memo)
- Who could have guessed that campaigning on taking away voters' voting rights wouldn't catch fire with voters?
Politicians are funny folks, right and left. And a lot of Republicans have been happy to get behind pretty much anything the Tea Partiers have run up the flag pole. But it turns out that maybe campaigning on taking away people's right to vote for their senators wasn't such a hot idea. And now a few Republicans — like Steve Stivers in Ohio and among others — are now trying to backtrack as fast as they can.
[LOLOLOLOL. -L]
- Swimming in the swill with Rush (Hullabaloo)
- Anyone who doesn't subscribe to Media Matters' "Limbaughwire" is missing out on a profoundly important insight into the thinking of a fairly large number of Americans. Here's a piece of yesterday's dispatch…
[Hateful quotes redacted. -L]
Chris Matthews issued a challenge this week to any Republican who is willing to come on his show and say that Limbaugh is wrong. He has had no takers.
Every elected Republican is scared of this man and that should scare everyone else.
- The dominant hand (slactivist)
- When any given matter — a new law, a new tax, a higher risk for diabetes — affects or afflicts only a minority of the overall population, it's meaningless and irresponsible to conduct or a report on a poll of that overall population as though the opinions of all such respondents merit equal consideration.
Yet this happens all the time. And NPR, just like every other news outlet, reports on these polls as though their findings — that the majority are unconcerned about whatever it is the minority finds so upsetting — were some sort of evidence that the matter is of no great importance. Or, worse, that the minority who seem upset about the matter are just whining for no good reason…
Imagine that Arizona had passed a Southpaw Surtax — a new flat fee of $100/year to be paid only by the 13 percent or so of Arizonans who are left-handed. Polls conducted thereafter might show very similar results to those Michelle Norris recited on NPR [concerning the new Arizona anti-immigration legislation]. A majority of Arizonans support the new surtax. A vocal minority of whiners oppose it. End of story.
Such polls and such news reports tell us absolutely nothing. And yet on the radio, on the TV and in the paper, day after day, we get report after report on poll after poll telling us this very same nothing.
A majority of Arizonans, most of whom are not Hispanic, think it's OK to cast suspicion on all Hispanics. A majority of Americans, most of whom are not black males, don't care if police pull over black males far more frequently than everyone else. A majority of the overwhelmingly heterosexual population thinks its fine to deny full civil rights to homosexuals. A majority of Americans, 99 percent of whom have never set foot in a coal mine, think mine safety standards are just fine the way they are. And on and on.
This is the template for all such news stories: "The situation is viewed as controversial, since it allows 80 percent of the population to feed off the blood of the other 20 percent, but polls show nearly 70 percent of the country thinks this is a good thing. So no worries then."
- The Whole Internet Is Paying Tribute To Frank Frazetta [NSFW] [This Is Awesome]
- We lost a giant of fantasy and science fiction art earlier this week. The internet has been full of artists posting their own homages to Frank Frazetta's inimitable style. Here are some of our favorites, some of them NSFW.
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