The missing links have returned! Or been found. Anyone watch that Futurama where Professor Farnsworth keeps finding the missing link, but the chimp professor keeps questioning it? It’s like that.
If the Recovery Act failed to stimulate Americans’ confidence, it’s because it replaced more things than it built. It filled the crater left by the financial crisis. By and large, it succeeded. But its success has been nearly invisible. After all, a filled hole looks like nothing at all. – The Atlantic
- What You Don’t Understand About the Stimulus – Like so much that this Administration and Democratic Congress have done in the past 18 months, the stimulus wasn’t about immediately recognizable change, it was about shifting long-term priorities and filling enormous gaps in our economy. This article does a good job of explaining this regarding the Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
- Understanding the Science Behind Riparian Forest Buffers: Effects on Water Quality – Everything you ever wanted to know about riparian buffers, but were afraid to ask.
- The Party of Crazy – The Roanoke Times opines on the modern Republican party. It’s pretty standard stuff, but from a Virginia paper.
- Before You Say The Country Is Moving To The Right… – Chris Bowers demonstrates how America is positively more liberal than we were 30 years ago, and that’s a good thing.
- Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits – In honor of the new school year, science tells us what kind of studying works.
- My Rabbi’s Yom Kippur Sermon Posted on Kid Squared, a blog that is on the mysterymommy blogroll.
- Balls Beer for Health Care Reform – A bit of a reminder seems necessary.
- New Fallacies for Our Time – Blatant logical fallacies posing as political argumentation is one of the reasons I started blogging in the first place. I love this post on OpenLeft about modern-day logical fallacies in political discussions.