March 12, 2010
Lunch links
Here are some interesting items to peruse as you (hopefully) prepare to switch off the work brain and transition into a weekend of college hoops and/or cavorting in the springtime weather:
Paul Krugman has a pragmatic, common sense take on the health care reform debate that debunks some of the latest wing-nut mythology.
Next week’s NC Policy Watch Crucial Conversation speaker, economist Dean Baker, provides an interesting economics lesson on at his blog Beat the Press.
Pam Spaulding at Pam’s House Blend has a link to a great Washington Post op-ed by Desmond Tutu about the need to stand up for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people.
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship had a sobering post yesterday on the seemingly insatiable appetites of America’s corporate overlords.
In the help wanted category, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is looking for volunteers for data entry project and the ACLU of North Carolina is looking for a lawyer to head up its Racial Justice Project.
Great Schools in Wake County is urging folks to register early for their neighborhood forum next Saturday the 20th.
And over on the fringe, the Locke Foundation’s in-house anti-choice crusader has a truly twisted and convoluted “exclusive” on the proposal to reinstate coverage of abortion services for Wake County employees. Paige Johnson of Planned Parenthood told it as it actually is on this issue a couple of weeks ago on the main Policy Watch site.
Finally, over on the Tweets, Mark Binker had a fairly amazing link this morning — click here to see how partisan life in our state seems to be getting in the era of tea baggers who wear gun holsters to protests and use every imaginable and utterly absurd buzzword/slur to attack the President.
Have great weekend campers!
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