Prosthetic Conscience

Again, these are delayed a little bit.

• Joe Bageant: Obama’s election will keep liberals happy
  

  Tomas, a Bageant reader writes:

  > So now Obama parades his lineup of economic advisers and, in the immortal words of Gomer Pyle, “Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!” But only if you’ve not been paying attention all along. The only surprise is how easily the democrats managed to get people all jacked up about pissing in their own beds. I am hoping that Thomas Frank will explain all this in his next book.

  Ayup.

• denialism blog : Cancer 101
  

  The basics of what cancer is, how it works, and how it is treated. If you understand just this much, you’ll never be fooled by quacks pushing woo-woo cancer “treatments”.

• Cruella-blog: Dear Santa
  

  No anti-wrinkle cream for Christmas. Plus, the seven signs of aging. I have one (knows the words to ABBA songs).

• Workers - 1, Wal-Mart - 0: Employees Win Right to Unionize | PEEK | AlterNet
  
• Cooperation, Not Obedience
  

  An article on the roles of expertise and authority.

• Aegisub: If programming languages were religions…
  

  According to this, I am a Humanist/Zen Buddhist, forced to work in a Fundamentalist Christian environment. Which is disturbingly close to the truth.

• from Vim to Emacs - part 1
  

  Debian’s vim package maintainer and author of popular vim extensions switches to emacs.

• What Does Vilsack’s Appointment Mean for the Future of Organic Food and Public Lands? | Environment | AlterNet