Links and Minifeatures 06 12 Tuesday

One of my clients would like me to link to her site so for those of you who might like to see work in progress, here's her most recent post, showing the condo torn apart.



2 bedroom 2 (full) bath condo in El Cajon, CA. 900 square feet. We got it for $197,000. The previous model match had sold for $273,000.

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Don Surber on "marriage is hate speech?" makes a point about double standards and double talk. Looks like political and career intimidation to me.



If you're going to allow one advocacy viewpoint, you need to allow the opposing viewpoint. If we can tolerate Nazis and Klansmen and other brands of racial supremacist which are explicitly hate oriented, it seems unlikely to me our society is going to get torn apart by people who merely disagree with gay marriage.



I've said it before and I'll say it again: Political Censorship of opposing ideas is a response to an argument you can't deal with rationally. It is an admission of weakness. The correct response is to out-argue your opponents.



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House Democrat warns GOP on earmarks

Saying Republicans indulge in earmarks as much as Democrats do, Obey warned GOP leaders to stop politicizing the subject. If Boehner and his allies "think they can demagogue the earmarks process all the year long and expect Democrats to carry the burden of passing earmarks, they're wrong," Obey said. "There will be no earmarks for anybody."

He says that like it would be a bad thing.



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It hurts to think about, but it's also amazing in a way:

19th-Century Weapon Found in Whale

A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt - more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.