Thursday, August 11, 2011

Assorted links, vol. 27

--Might this new therapy be a breakthrough in the treatment of leukemia?
*--In case you were wondering, Sesame Street folks broke the news that Ernie and Bert are not gay and won't marry each other.
*--Sad to see Catholic bishops placing their anti-LGBT push above so much else.
--Prime Minister David Cameron is considering bans on social media to prevent further rioting.  When I first heard this, I immediately thought of the bans on social media in other places; think of China's blocking of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or consider the role of social media in the Arab spring on the one hand and the corresponding blocking of these sites, or even the whole of the Internet.  What is the same and what is different among these instances?
--Mitt Romney informed Iowa today that "corporations are people," which I think means he has been reading up about Citizens United....  Check out the ever-wonderful Story of Stuff's thoughts about this.

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