Tuesday Link Rodeo #5
Our first link is to this article at Reason Hit and Run about the crusade against unliscensed pool and ping pong tables.
Lunatic Sally Kern from Oklahoma is at it again. This post from Pharyngula tells how Kern is reintroducing her bill to prevent teachers from giving students bad grades if they claim that the answer that they wrote down is a religious belief. If this passes, I would love to see someone try to get away with writing a non Christian creation myth down and see if they can get credit for it.
This post from Glenn Greenwald is about a recent interview by Atlantic magazine with Barrack Obama. This article contrasts the current Israeli butt kissing that is required of modern American politicians with a 1950s era letter in which Dwight Eisenhower claims to have told the state Department to tell David Ben-Gurion that America would “handle our affairs exactly as though we didn’t have a Jew in America.” (more about this general topic is available here)
UPDATE:
This post from by the Washington Post’s blogger Philip Carter is very good, but from a few days ago.
