{"id":1035,"date":"2004-08-23T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/23\/a-few-quick-links\/"},"modified":"2004-08-23T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T20:28:46","slug":"a-few-quick-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"A few quick links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicsforchoice.org\/new\/opeds\/081704archiebunker.htm\">Catholics for Choice responds <\/a>to the Pope&#8217;s recent thoughts on &#8220;the woman question.&#8221; Well worth reading.\n<li>An article in the <i>Times <\/i>reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/19\/business\/19care.html?ex=1250568000&#038;en=370baaba4d09f1f6&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">another cost of our absurb lack of decent single-payer care: higher unemployment<\/a>. Faced with the fast-rising costs of healthcare, employers are choosing not to hire. Yet another way we&#8217;d be better off if health insurance was automatic, instead of being connected to employment.\n<li><i>The New York Times <\/i>provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/23\/politics\/23overtime.html?hp\">an amazingly useless article <\/a>on the new overtime regulations. It points out that critics claim that Bush&#8217;s new rules will cut off up to six million workers from overtime; the Bush administration claims that&#8217;s all lies; and the article provides the readers with <i>absolutely no context <\/i>to help decide which side is right.\n<p>It reminds me of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmag.org\/cartoons\/show_toon.cfm?toonID=1118&#038;toonList=1518,1457,1308,1251,1247,1248,1227,1223,1217,1206,1194,1185,1175,1162,1148,1129,1118,1100,1088,1076,1065,1061,1052,1029,1024,1017,1007,1002,998,992,977,968,964,946,938,930,921,912,885,873,869,856,850,841,839,809,803,794,780,774,764,759,750,725,710,712,705,702,697,691,663,651,639,628,609,598,574,568,565,554,545,532,527,525,515,510,502,496,479,467,459,441,438,431,425,418,413,400,378,372,370,358,353,328,319,307,305,303,301,300,290,287,286,285,284,277,271,272,270,262,258,250,247,241,238,234,226,218,209,208,202,191,190,189,188,187,186,181,178,171,165,161,138,137,136,135,134,132,115,112,108,105,102,99,88,85,82,78,75,68,70,71,72,73,74,69&#038;index=by_artist.cfm&#038;artist=10\">cartoon I drew back in 2003<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/08\/index.html#003609\">Matthew Ygelsias points out<\/a>, we can pretty safely assume that anything favored by the Chamber of Commerce and opposed by the AFL-CIO is going to have a net effect of cutting wages and increasing profits. But it would be nice to read a more substantial analysis of the competing claims about the new law.<\/p>\n<li>I can&#8217;t even describe Ken Layne&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/kenlayne.com\/2004\/08\/god-of-war-death-madness.html\">&#8220;The God of War, Death &#038; Madness,&#8221;<\/a> but I&#8217;ll provide a quote.\n<div class=\"snip\">&#8220;In Vietnam, Kerry is a death&#8217;s head of gruesome power, while your Bush hides in Alabama, a scared little girl. And what did little Bush do in Texas?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blair grinned, foolishly thinking the ball was again in his court. &#8220;He killed many people in Texas. All those executions &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ha! Your girly Bush killed <i>nobody<\/i>. He signed off on lethal injections. He&#8217;s a middle manager in a cubicle at the suburban branch of the Bank of Death, initialing memos he doesn&#8217;t even know how to read.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Do <a href=\"http:\/\/kenlayne.com\/2004\/08\/god-of-war-death-madness.html\">read the whole<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pedantry.fistfulofeuros.net\/archives\/000772.html#more\">Pendantry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">bugmenot.com <\/a>you should. Never register to read free online news content again &#8211; just get a working password from this brilliant site.\n<li>You must check out the winners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tecstandards.com\/2004winner.htm\">2004 Worst Manual Contest<\/a>. Sample quote from the winning manual: \u201cTo apply the cold wind to the body for a longtime and so as to not exist about cooling too much.\u201d Via &#8211; o, heck, I lost it.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedtimber.org\/archives\/002363.html\">&#8220;He&#8221; and &#8220;him&#8221; are not gender-neutral pronouns.<\/a> If you disagree, explain why the sentence &#8220;Was it your father or your mother who broke his leg on a ski trip?&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/headheeb.blogmosis.com\/archives\/025883.html\">The Head Heeb <\/a>reminds us that it&#8217;s less than three weeks until the 350th anniversary of the arrivial of the first Jews in North America.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/vaults\/2004\/08\/18\/doubleplus_sprezzatura\">Kip discusses <\/a>the book <i>The Compleat Gentleman<\/i>. Fave quote: &#8220;There <i>is <\/i>something rather perfectly disingenuous about writing a book that insists lording it over everyone else is within the reach of us all.&#8221; But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/vaults\/2004\/08\/18\/doubleplus_sprezzatura\">the whole thing <\/a>will repay your reading efforts.\n<li>Via Kip, this brilliant little quicktime movie &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/in8.com\/fucknewyork\/Resources\/\/fucknewyork.mov\">Fuck New York <\/a>&#8211; cracked me up completely. And while I&#8217;m stealing links from Kip, this <a href=\"http:\/\/mediax.muchosucko.com\/movies\/512-davidbelle.mov\">quicktime movie of young men acrobatically jumping from building to building <\/a>(among other things) is extremely cool.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholics for Choice responds to the Pope&#8217;s recent thoughts on &#8220;the woman question.&#8221; Well worth reading. 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