Bookmarks for October 3rd

Some additional reading October 3rd from 09:28 to 18:09:

• SuperSonicSoul on Economic Meltdowns, Stadiums, and NBA Owners – "The time has come for this country to quit subsidizing billionaires on the backs of taxpayers. If stadiums were such a great investment – as owner after owner tells city after city – then why are there so few owners willing to build stadiums? They certainly have no trouble coming up with the hundreds of millions to purchase the team, so why can't they come up with at least part of the money needed to house them?

  The answer is simple – because they play us for fools"

• Winky Dinks – "She said what she wanted to say, and she was so relaxed she even winked at one point. Really! An actual wink during a national debate, when she said she was going to try to get John McCain to change his mind about not drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

  I hope that wink wasn't a lurid signal that Palin plans to bestow oral sex on her running mate to get him to change his mind about ANWR, breathily promising him that she'll show him the true meaning of drilling in Alaska if only he'll say yes. That would be so wrong on so many levels.

  Perhaps she intends only to "wink him off," to paraphrase the famous joke told by Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail. But even that would be a dismayingly inappropriate way to further the cause of domestic oil exploration, in my opinion. "

• Fake pollsters' scare tactics target Obama | – "Barack Obama's campaign for the White House is receiving increasing complaints about scam pollsters involved in dirty tricks operations to discredit the Democratic candidate.

  Victims claim the fake pollsters work insinuations into their questions, designed to damage Obama. Those targeted in swing states such as Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania include Jews, Christian evangelicals, Catholics and Latinos."
  Criminals. Should be prosecuted.

• There's something wrong with these people – Rich Lowry obviously doesn't go outside much if he thinks Sarah Palin was at all sexy when she winked at the television audience. Creepy, if you ask me, like a used-car salesman. But Lowry thought she was hawt!
  " I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America"
• More Random Debate Thoughts – "I'm sure I'm not the only female in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, rolled her eyes and thought: oh, dear God. We have all seen just that wink deployed at guys like Rich Lowry. We have all watched in amazement as it actually works, despite its transparent manipulativeness. What, we all wonder, could those guys possibly be thinking? (What the winking women are thinking is usually altogether too clear.) I'm betting that for every male vote that wink picked up, it lost at least one woman."
  Those winks were the most irritating debate tick I can ever remember, and even as a hetro male, irritated me beyond measure. Winks usually mean you've got something stuck in your eye, or you are suffering a stroke.
• Macworld | Geotag your digital photos – still no perfect solution for a DSLR, but…
• G.O.P. Holds to Firm Stance on Abortion – NYTimes.com – "The Republican Party platform this year will reassert the party’s opposition to abortion. And again it will not allow for exceptions in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother"
  pathetic
• Pam's House Blend:: Biden, Palin and that pesky marriage thing – "Joe Biden's answer boxed in Sarah Palin, forcing her to give a feeble, confusing answer that probably left her supporters on the far right unhappy. One — she holds the same position on marriage as Obama/Biden, so that was off the table. Two — it left her to use a "some of my best friends are gay" position, and acknowledged that gay and lesbian couples deserve some rights. [BTW, the Log Cabin Republicans have no basis to say that Palin's comments reflect any evolutionary thinking on McCain/Palin's part, it only raises the question of what rights they intend to deny gay couples. …
  To have her say this before millions had to give James Dobson, Lou Sheldon, Gary Bauer and Tony Perkins agita. "
• Over Van Alles En Nog Wat. » Blog Archive » The 10 big news stories the mainstream media IGNORED – "The daily dispatches and nightly newscasts of the mainstream media regularly cover terrorism, but rarely how fear of attacks is used to manipulate the public and set policy. That’s the common thread of many of the unreported stories last year, according to an analysis by Project Censored."