Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.

• Swimming in The Sewers

– “So. Here’s what angers me right now: The tearfest of Sarah Palin may be mostly justified but it allows the misogynists to join in, and they are not just attacking Palin, my friends: They are attacking women in general.”

• Daily Mail in knee-jerk homophobic, sexist shocker!

– “Phillips also manages to argue that demanding an end to discrimination in adoption and marriage amounts to discrimination against straight Christians.”

• “Dumb” vs. “Smart” Books

– “By seeing which books are listed by people at schools with higher overall SATs, we supposedly find out which books make people smarter or dumber:”

• What HHL Wants in a Man

– Sing it.

• (title unknown)

– “It’s mind boggling, isn’t it? First, there’s the absolutely insane assertion that the mainstream press was easier on Clinton than they’ve been on Palin, closely followed by his admission that Fox is a partisan outfit but that the New York Times isn’t, which has to have Brent Bozell looking for pistol right about now.”

• (title unknown)

– “It does not believe in a constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy in any sphere, abortion just being the most obvious and inflammatory one.”

• De-honouring Honourables

– Which traditions are worth keeping?

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