Catching up with some links, finally….

A friend sent this definition from the Encyclopedia Dramatica. If you are one, you don’t know it, so everybody laughs, right?

Salon’s How The World Works, formerly a blog devoted to globalization, has become the voice of sanity I turn to for economic news. Today, in a lighter note: Save the Alabama Condom!

Apparently, to be a Republican you must lose your memory—remember John Boehner just a few months ago, screaming about spending taxpayer money on contraceptives? For that matter, remember 2004 or so, when anyone who questioned the Iraq war was deemed a traitor and there was talk among the pundits about who should be put on trial for treason? Not for wanting the war to fail, but just questioning whether we ought to be there? No memory, that’s the kindest explanation I can come up with.

BTW, you will have to sit through a brief ad to access Salon content, sorry. Once you’re through the ad wall, though, check out this fun and fascinating 2005 story about a legal battle over condom designs.

Finally, I heard this amazing sound on an NPR story the other morning. I stopped what I was doing, completely riveted by the unearthly sound of Tibetan throat singing.