Assorted Links 5/18/09 Archives
Assorted Links 5/18/09
Budget Visualizations: "Two YouTube videos help put proposed budget cuts and our growing debt into perspective."
One of them from Political Math
- Public Affairs and the Internet: Advanced Techniques and Strategies, May 19, 2009
- Congress in a Nutshell: Understanding Congress, June 4, 2009
- Congressional Dynamics and the Legislative Process, June 5, 2009
- Capitol Hill Workshop, June 10-12, 2009
- Tracking and Monitoring Legislation: How to Find and Use Congressional Documents, June 25, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- How to Research and Compile Legislative Histories, June 26, 2009 - with WiFi Classroom
- It's an Emergency! Now What?
- One-Stop Shopping for Propane Conversions
- How Is Chrysler Closing Dealerships? Not Nicely, And Maybe Not Well, Either
- Debunking The Notion Of Too Big To Fail
- A plainly stupid defense of Social Security
- Universal Pre-K Scam
- Credit Card Defaults At Record Highs But Worst Is Yet To Come
- Glick in the Philadelphia Inquirer - Washington has abandoned its obligations
- Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway
- Cocalero - "The film is an attempt to pay homage to Evo Morales and his supporters but it actually shows a far bleaker and more Caplanian picture of life on the ground. It's one of the best movies on poverty, albeit unintentionally in whole or in part."
- Thank God it's Friday!
- Talk about an activity fee! - "The mayor of Providence [RI] wants to tax Brown students directly."
- San Francisco Housing: Problems at the High End
- Constitutional Rubbish - "Historical analysis has always shown that the Founders, if anything, intended for Congress to be preeminent, and not the President and the executive branch. For example, only Congress has the constitutional power to remove the President and other high officers of the executive branch as well as the judiciary, but the latter cannot remove any member of Congress. And Congress has control of raising and spending government funds as well as the power to overrule any presidential attempt to veto legislation."
- What’s Wrong With Empathy?
- "They told me that if I voted for McCain we'd get an airheaded chatterbox for Vice President. And they were right!"
- Someone's Gonna Get Fired: LeMons Cars Invited To Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance
- Store Fruits and Vegetables Properly to Minimize Waste
- Extech Mini Microscope Debuts
- Iconography Dominates in the Age of the Attention Crash
- Health and Fitness Linkage
- Goiter and the Golden Medical Discovery - iodine
- Medical Applications for Android Phones
May 18, 2009 09:07 AM Caught Our Eye
