The Good

• Jesus - The Awkward Years -- Jesus' life (well, not really) as a goofy Archie comic, complete with lame laugh lines and bad puns (and a bit of sacrilege, if that sort of thing upsets you). Now if only its RSS feed weren't frelled.
• Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparison [Lifehacker... -- This actually deserves a full post, but no time at the present. So, in the meantime, check out this review of using Outlook vs Gmail for your Internet mail client. I can't imagine using a resource hog like Outlook for that, but clearly some people find it useful.
• The Pope's interest in Lambeth -- You'd think that the Catholic Church would be salivating over snatching up all sorts of dissident conservatives from the current Anglican brouhaha, but evidently the Pope gets along well with the Archbishop of Canterbury, and has an interest in stability more than upping the Catholic rosters. Plus, y'know, folks who make lots of disturbance and question how the denomination is run and teaches aren't exactly high on the list of people the Pope wants to see ...
• The Archbishop of York -- Sounds like a cool guy.

The Bad

• Pocket watch gun -- TSA to ban all pocketwatches on airline flights -- film at 11.
• Dadburn gub’mint regulations! -- The free market is a great way, by and large, to encourage innovation and maximize net profit in a society. But just like Darwin's natural selection means you can end up with dangerous monocultures -- not to mention lots of dead bunnies and burnt-down forests and mass extinctions -- so too is it a Good Idea to have regulatory checks on the market to protect things that aren't included in "net profit," like health and safety and pollution and labor practices.
• Electrocuted -- As an example of the previous bullet ... As someone who works for an engineering firm with a strong safety culture, and someone who has a lot of respect for electricity, I find this apalling.
• He Said What? -- Evidently John McCain has forgotten all he once knew about operational security.

The Ugly

• Kid at your door with a sob story selling magazines?... -- All the more reason to smile, say you're not interested, and close the door. 
• Police smash car window to "rescue" reborn baby doll -- Creepy on many levels.
• Homophobic politician sends self-published comic book... -- Okay, he gets points for creativity (only to lose them all for being a jerk).
• Woman credits God for allowing bullet to hit only... -- I have my own theological problems with requests for intercessory prayer. I have more problems with ex post facto "God protected me" attributions, especially when it's a matter of a bad outcome that's "good" because it could have been worse.
• DeMint: Freedom of Speech Threatened by Disagreement -- Sorry, but having your speech criticized, objected to, or ridiculed is not "censorship" or "stifling" of your Freedom of Speech, unless it's the government that's doing it to you. If people think you're being a cretinous bigot (or even that your points are poorly stated and have many counter-arguments to them), that's what free speech is all about.

 

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