Saturday Morning Link Extravaganza

Amorous Ephemera

• The attrac­tive Heather Molina and her bike.
• Video footage of the Naked Tenor (love lifts him up where he belongs!)

Athletic Discharge

• Steady Burn sug­gests 10  fringe ath­letes to fol­low on Twitter.

Aural Discharge

• Rhode Island politi­cian sings beau­ti­fully about Jesus on local FOX affil­i­ate.

Big Health and Hygiene

• Is Obamacare polit­i­cal mal­prac­tice? Writes Eric Novack:

“As busi­nesses and fam­i­lies face insur­ance renewals, the cru­elest dis­ap­point­ment of all will be that not only will the results of this so-called reform fail to meet expec­ta­tions, but the costs to fam­i­lies, busi­nesses and jobs will far exceed even crit­ics’ projections.

“I would have my med­ical license revoked if I prac­ticed ortho­pe­dic surgery with this same level of reck­less arro­gance. For doc­tors, results are what patients live with for the rest of their lives. For politi­cians, results are the stuff of talk­ing points, not fact but fic­tion. Today’s fail­ure, it seems, is only a changed sub­ject away from being tomorrow’s success.”

Cold Lonely Places

• Web Urbanist explains why the Soviets left a statue of Lenin in one of the world’s most inhos­pitable places.

Deep-Fried Dystopia

• Add Fidel Castro to the list of Bilderberg con­spir­acy dip­shits. From the Huffington Post:

“The 84-year-old for­mer Cuban pres­i­dent pub­lished an arti­cle Wednesday that used three of the only eight pages in the Communist Party news­pa­per Granma to quote — largely ver­ba­tim — from a 2006 book by Lithuanian-born writer Daniel Estulin.

Estulin’s work, ‘The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club,’ argues that the inter­na­tional group largely runs the world. It has held a secre­tive annual forum of promi­nent politi­cians, thinkers and busi­ness­men since it was founded in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland.

Castro offered no com­ment on the excerpts other than to describe Estulin as hon­est and well-informed and to call his book a ‘fan­tas­tic story.’”

• A fire tor­nado fucks shit up in Brazil.

“…also known as fire whirls or fire dev­ils, are rare and depend on cer­tain air tem­per­a­tures and cur­rents to cre­ate a ver­ti­cal, rotat­ing col­umn of air. In 1923, a fire tor­nado ignited by the Great Kanto earth­quake in Tokyo grew to the size of a large city and killed 38,000 peo­ple in 15 min­utes. At the time most of the build­ings in Japan were made from wood and fire spread from house to house, destroy­ing the city.”

• An insider’s account of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sterling Hall bomb­ing:

“The anti-war move­ment was a sham; a cover for vio­lent anar­chists. It wasn’t actu­ally anti-war; it was mostly anti-draft, and noth­ing more. It was over-indulged white males who didn’t want to be con­scripted. It would never have hap­pened if there hadn’t been a draft.”

• I can never fig­ure out what dri­ves the anger behind the anti-Christopher Hitchens site Hitchens Watch. The con­trib­u­tors write well, and it’s nice that they douse some skep­ti­cism on the man typ­i­cally revered as a skep­tic par excel­lence. But their tone strikes me as bit­ter, and I won­der if there’s more ani­mat­ing their “watch­dog” role than “the pur­suit of truth.”

• Prateik Dalmia offers some the­o­ries to explain Hollywood’s repug­nance:

“Hollywood stars hence feel that there is some­thing arbi­trary about their suc­cess — that their per­sonal merit does not war­rant their revered sta­tus. While they may be pleased at this out­come, they can’t help but feel that the sys­tem is unjust because their sta­tus is unde­served. They watch peo­ple in the lower rungs of soci­ety strug­gle and become over­come by a deep sense of guilt for hold­ing the win­ning ticket in the lot­tery of life. They dis­trust cap­i­tal­ism for the seem­ingly unfair inequal­ity it pro­duces and thus favor redistribution.

“However, what Hollywood fails to real­ize is that mar­kets allo­cate rewards not based on indi­vid­ual merit but on the value indi­vid­u­als pro­duce for others.”

Divine Illumination on Demand/Esoteric Sentience

• Ayahuasca: one damn fine plant-spirit ambas­sador.

Local

• Sustainable Oregon youth pre­pare to infil­trate Salem and snuff any remain­ing liv­abil­ity right out of it.

• Portland restau­rant bans envi­ron­men­tal­ist:

“…Guido Rahr, pres­i­dent of the Wild Salmon Center in Portland…spotted Atlantic bluefin tuna on the menu at Sinju Restaurant’s Pearl District loca­tion while hav­ing lunch, and pro­ceeded to do exactly what groups like Seafood Watch, Environmental Defense Fund or Blue Ocean Institute encour­age: he politely spoke up. And as a result, got him­self banned from the restau­rant. That’s right, accord­ing to Rahr, they said he was no longer wel­come at Sinju and would refuse to serve him.”

• Rest in peace, wrasslin’ Tony Borne.

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