Links of the Day, December 17

News

• Expectations in Copenhagen are muted.
• The labor market is slow to heal.
• The House passes a jobs bill. Just.

Miscellaneous

• Jon Stewart blasts a tea party rally … incidentally, I walked past this rally.

Links of the Day, December 1

It’s World AIDS Day. Watch this vid:

Iron Man 2:


News

• Barack will make an address tonight on Afghanistan, with preliminary reports suggesting a rapid deployment of an additional 30-35,000 troops.
• The proposed Comcast-NBC merger would be the largest media merger in recent history.
• South Africa vows to treat all HIV-positive babies (which is a big change of direction post-Mbeki).

Health care

• Latino voters see health care as the overwhelming priority.

Green

• The folks over at Treehugger debunk the global-warming-conspiracy conspiracy and critique the whole Climategate fallacy.

Finance reform

• The House is moving forward on financial regulation reform; the Senate is sluggish … very sluggish.

Miscellaneous

• My good friend Ziya looks at the different perceptions of beauty.
• Is Lasik worth thousands of dollars?

Links of the Day, November 9

News

• The House health care bill passes over the weekend, 220-215!!
• Meet Anh "Joseph" Cao, the lone Republican Congressperson to vote for the bill. Here’s a statement from his official website. As reasons go, standing up for the poor and uninsured in your district is a pretty good reason for it. And the fact that he didn’t back down in the face of GOP threats is pretty admirable too. I think I like Rep. Cao.
• Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
• Floods hit El Salvador, killing at least 124 people.

Politics

• Only 1% of Americans are millionaires, but 44% of Congress fall into that category. Foolocracy lists the richest 25 Members of Congress.

Green

• Medina, the second holiest city in Islam, is going green.

Miscellaneous

• Thanks to Liz for this:
  
• London in 1927: