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* Obama backs gay rights at the UN
* Human evolution in high gear, John Hawks again, plus others.
* Nazi anti-American poster. I think this is what a Fair Folk behemoth looks like.
* Steven Pinker on infanticide. Old.
* Haldane's On Being the Right Size. "A horse splashes."

* Economic records. I liked a comment further down: "Free markets don't work. Competition works, and that is the point and role of government regulation: to preserve competition." I'd say there are other points to regulation as well (externalities!) but preserving competition -- free markets have a tendency to monopolize -- is a good one.
* Scalzi on the GOP and Obama
* I spent hours reading old entries at philosophyetc, such as this, this, this, and this.

* GM is apparently killing the Saturn, and maybe Saab, but also the Hummer. So I'm told; I don't care enough to google.
* US has fewer cars per capita than other countries?. One suggestion elsewhere was economic inequality, and more Americans who can't afford any cars; another was that the data doesn't count all the minivans and SUVs.
* US high speed rail corridor designations. Note the lack of connection: Seaboard to Florida or the Midwest, Midwest to Texas, Texas to the Gulf/Seaboard. Of course, AFAICT none of this has been built anyway, apart from the blue line in the NE.

* The French and TV ads
* Dying on camera
* Bristol Palin: abstinence isn't realistic.
* How ads are like porn
* Post-racial America
* Ann Coulter defends racist group

Date: 2009-02-20 11:41 (UTC)From: [identity profile] angry-geologist.livejournal.com
That rail corridor map is really just depressing. Look at how many poorer areas are just being left out! No wonder this country is in the shape it's in.

Date: 2009-02-20 15:44 (UTC)From: [identity profile] mindstalk.livejournal.com
1) Map seems to be designations, not built track, outside of the blue NE; I'll edit.

2) Not having a feel for the proper density or reach of high-rail, that actually wasn't my first thought. Tennessee gets skipped, as TN and KY do by Amtrak; the geography might have something to do with that. Otherwise most states that aren't The West get touched, at least.

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