Links for you. Science:
How complexity leads to simplicity (video)
Lost & Cast Away: Ten Amazing Uninhabited Islands
Mapping fitness: landscapes, topographic maps, and Seattle
Other:
Mistaken assumptions: jobs, business and tax cuts
Corporate America Hearts Obama (from 2008, but worth reading in light of the last two years)
GE to state: Give us money or these jobs buy it
Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
Compromise on Social Security and Medicare? Why My Center-Left Friends are Wrong
NONE DARE CALL IT SABOTAGE....
More like this
Quelle surprise. David Brook's recent burbling, "Getting Obama Right", seems to have garnered a lot of attention, to the point where several people sent it to me (approvingly, which is puzzling).
Many in the Punditocracy are proclaiming that the U.S. is a center-right country. While it's pretty obvious that they're saying this to justify their feeble pronouncements, that's not what really bugs me about this center-right hooey.