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Brilliant: the ennui and existential musings of a cat. YouTube clip embedded on what looks to be an interesting anthropologically oriented blog. Via somebody named Lance whom I don’t know. He posted the link as a Facebook comment to this funny music video by a local band called Nuthatch-47. Thanks to Rebecca for posting the link.
A couple of people have commented far more cogently than I ever could on the disruption of town hall meetings by angry protesters and the hypocrisy of health care providers fighting reform of the industry. It’s too bad that the meetings are so out of control As Abe Sauer at The Awl concludes, these people are just angry, legitimately so in many ways. Unfortunately, I believe they will be worse off if their protests succeed in derailing health care reform. And the noise makes real debate next to impossible.
A Primer For the Coastal Elite: What Do the Tea Party Folks Want? An on-the-scene report from a rally in North Dakota, with photos. At The Awl.
The Hypocrisy of Healthcare Protesters at Salon.com. Darren Hutchinson of Dissenting Justice guest-blogs at Glenn Greenwald’s spot while the latter is on vacation. So many people have rediscovered the dangers of big government, which they ignored or even supported under George Bush. But really, it’s worth reading for the way it points out that we have nothing like free-market competition in health care as it stands.
My favorite of the many nutty protest signs seen recently? “Get Government out of My Medicare!” You can’t make this stuff up.
Peter Gabriel and a killer 6-piece band live at Real World Studios.
There's more, but you'll see the links when you're there. I don't know who any of the players are except Tony Levin but, um, wow.