Karen has a nice tribute to Shel Silverstein.
At Juanita Jean’s we learn Joe Miller in Alaska is a total fool. Or we are. He says:
The first thing that has to be done is secure the border. . . East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could, we could.
Joe Posnanski writes about the 32 NFL Coaches as Players.
Oh, and you probably don’t want to read Posnanski’s 2003 story about Tony Pena without a tissue handy.
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog has the latest about Facebook. They begin:
When it comes to the riskiness of using Facebook applications, the latest findings by the Wall Street Journal that popular apps have been compromising users’ privacy just scratches the surface of a much larger problem.
I received an email yesterday, presumably from a Facebook friend, that was bogus. It also had a number of current and former Facebook friends listed — and I have the maximum security settings (if one can even determine them). I wish you would all quit Facebook so I could.
CJR tells us we can be “Overly Possessive”. And you know me, I’ve never met an apostrophe essay I didn’t like.
Lastly, Hendrik Hertzberg quotes a blogger quoting him.
I value political liberty and political rights (freedom of thought, speech, conscience, and the press, the right to vote, civil equality) more highly than economic liberty and economic rights (property rights, freedom of enterprise, freedom from want, economic equality). I’m in favor of progressive taxation and generous public provision of education, pensions, and health care. I think people should have enough to eat and a roof over their heads, even if they haven’t done much to deserve it. I reject the idea that the market is the singular bedrock of society while everything else is a parasitical growth. I want government to do something about environmental degradation and gross social and economic inequality. I’m a secularist and a supporter of equal rights for women and gays. And when it comes to wanting World Peace, I’m practically a Miss America contestant. So I’m a liberal.
Me too.