links for 2008-11-04

""All we really need is some kind of simple technological solution," says Giblets, "like a garbage-powered weather machine or a synthetic source of God.""

Don't fall for it-- it's just Joe the Plumber

"If we were to draw this relationship as a Venn diagram, bigotry would be a smaller circle entirely inside the larger circle of stupidity. The temptation, then, is to think of racism as a particular subset of stupidity, but I think that leads us astray."

The Mooney-Kirshenbaum media empire continues to expand.

If you're up for a little science-based wagering.

"In the past couple of years new scientific evidence has started to confirm just how weird the relationship between dogs and human beings is -- and how different it is from what we tend to think it is. "