Weekend link dump for August 1

Happy anniversary, Mom and Dad!

Under the sea.

Yes, please let’s do call a liar a liar.

If you didn’t make it to Comic-Con, here’s who was there. Not the celebrities and boldfaced types, the real attendees.

I’ve known a few Amiga enthusiasts in my time. Hard to believe it’s been so long since they were on the scene.

I did the play by play for my Strat-O-Matic games when I was a kid, too. Clearly, I should have followed through on that a bit more.

Are you listening, Google? You, too, CNN. I’m going to step out on a limb here and guess they’re not the only ones.

The perils of open air performances. I’ve been rained out before, but never pooped out.

Your credit report should be like your medical records.

How clueless can you get? I guess there’s no real limit to that, unfortunately.

Someday, claims of being on Journolist will be like claims that one was at Yankee Stadium when Roger Maris hit #61. The number of people making the claim, or having someone else make it on their behalf, will far exceed the real thing.

The question isn’t whether the Americans with Disabilities Act could pass today. I’ve no doubt that it couldn’t, not in this environment. The real question is whether something like it will ever be able to pass again. Right now, given current attitudes, I’m not terribly optimistic.

Poor, poor, pitiful Joel Pollok.

The comments on this Burka post are an excellent, albeit deeply depressing, example of denial.

Everybody does not do it, in fact.

What the CBO says about immigrants and our economy.

Good for Dave Weigel.

The Russians are coming…to Plano?

Google News pollution.

You can’t trademark “Texas sports”. And that’s as it should be.

Ready or not, here comes the PAC 12.

RIP, Jack Tatum.

Organizing the unemployed.

The next Art Car Parade will be on Sunday, for the year 2011 only.

From the “Math is hard” department.

“In the interest of furthering the interests of powerful corporations, a narrow majority of Supreme Court conservative justices overturned decades of campaign finance precedent, and a small minority of conservative senators blocked congressional efforts at reform. At the risk of sounding really exasperated, this is absolutely insane.” Yes, yes it is.

Troubletown is worth a thousand words.

Save the video games!

Remember when Republicans would demagogue about 9/11 for political gain? Those were the days.

Any punishment of the Wyly Brothers that doesn’t leave them destitute is insufficient, in my view. These guys are the poster children for reinstating WWII-level tax rates for the upper brackets.

Three cheers for New York.

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