A collection of sundry links to enliven your day:
- Liberals are incensed that denizens of the Amazonian rain forest will actually be allowed to eat ice cream.
- Camilla Paglia essay on the wane of sex drive as a result of, um, something. Like many of Paglia’s essays, it skips around all over the place, ties together some highfalutin theory around a few interesting factual nuggets, and is frequently wrong in extremely interesting ways.
- Liberals still can’t fathom why their budget-busting Big Government initiatives are so unpopular.
- Daily KOS admits its polls were fabricated. Come December, when defeated Democrats in congress start packing up their belongings, they might pause a moment to contemplate how living in the “reality-based community”‘s fantasy bubble brought them to that juncture.
- In a development that will surprise absolutely no one, Capital Metro’s Rail Program is an underutilized, expensive failure.
- Of course, this is the same company that spent $61,000 defending itself against a $500 fine. Your tax dollars at work!
Hat tips to Instapundit, Real Clear Politics, Slashdot, Whipped Cream Difficulties.
Tags: Austin, Camilla Paglia, Capital Metro, light rail, LinkSwarm, mass transit
[…] Edited to add 4: As I’ve noted in the past, my newspaper reading during the weekends can be spotty. So I missed this Ben Wear article in the Statesman about the MetroRail ridership figures. (Hattip: Blue Dot Blues, by way of Battleswarm.) […]