Friday Links (7-May-10)

Life has gotten in the way so all I’ve got energy for is this post, vacuous of any actual content by me. Luckily this whole life thing is subsiding so in a few days posting shall become less homeopathic.

There is however plenty that’s happened lately and it’s mostly gloom and doom.

• In Soviet Russia, the politician outs you! In a first recorded case, a man running in a very gay-friendly district who claimed to be bi has been outed as straight in an attempt to smear him.

• Another supposedly upside down idea that’s actually worthwhile: Ghana thinktank considers how to solve problems in the developed world.
• Critical thinking: dear Russia, you’re doing it wrong (regarding their latest ban on Scientology texts
• Indonesia, the last frontier of Big Tobacco, where people spend a frightening percentage of income on cigarettes and this video of a 4 yr old chain-smoker has surfaced.
• On the Arizona immigration law, a nice tweet by the Mexican ambassador to the US: The Mexican Government has just issued a Travel Advisory recommending Mexicans not to travel to Arizona on business or pleasure
• Tim Minchin’s suitable tribute to the pope (NSFW language, for which it’s been flagged so you have to confirm your age to your friendly YouTube overlords).
• Uzbekistan: controlling populations by sterilising poor women without their knowledge
• Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black
• Some great FSM devotional art
• The sinister Disney corporation nicely subverted by art
• Washington nuns investigated by the Vatican. Their crimes? Feminism and activism
• You know things have turned upside down when Glen Beck is the voice of reason in a TV discussion
• American Academy of Pediatrics releases appalling policy update on female genital mutilation
• To end on a lighter note while speaking of homeopathy: New Age terrorists develop homeopathic bomb