Our periodic linkfest pointing you to interesting posts from DIFFERING viewpoints. These viewpoints do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Moderate Voice or its co-bloggers.
Tom Cruise Revisited (OH, MOMMY DO WE HAVE TO?): Cut to the Chase’s Greg Angelo gives us some more perspective on TC. We love his opening lines:
When we talk about “A-list” actors these days, the “A” seems to increasingly stand for “asshole.” It is no longer enough to pull down $20 million + points on the gross, but now these copiously compensated cretins insist that their extreme and media-disseminated religious ideas are the way, the truth and the life.
GWB May Soon Get To Replace A Supreme Court Judge and conservatives are pondering some of the pluses and minuses of names being floated.
How Can You Tell If You’re A Libertarian? The Locust Fork gives you this test.
More Speculation On The Supreme Court: Will GWB throw everyone a curveball? Ann Althouse has this fascinating scenario.
All Kinds Of Surprising Things Can Happen When You Drink and you never know what can trigger and event….
Reparations For Slavery? A black moderate-conservative makes the case for it.
More On Karl Rove’s Verbal Shotgun Assault can be found in this comprehensive analysis/roundup by Ron Beasley.
Can The Libertarians Or Any Other Party Be A Viable Third Party? Right Wing News’ John Hawkins looks at this issue and analyzes it extensively. Read his entire argument. Here’s a small taste 4 U:
It’s. Never. Going. To. Happen. Never.
So, if you ask me, Libertarians would make more of an impact by picking the party that best fits their views, joining up, and trying to influence them from within. Will Libertarians gain great influence in either Party? Probably not, but they don’t have great influence now, nor are more than a handful of Libertarians likely to ever rise above the level of spoiler on the national level. That’s why joining up with the Republicans or Democrats is still the best way to go for Libertarians in my opinion.
The Supreme Court Eased The Way For Cities And Developers To Seize Private Property and it certainly sounds like some officials aren’t wasting any time to take advantage of the ruling.
The 30 Second Mayoral Campaign: If you want to read and understand within 30 seconds everything you need to know about our mayoral race here in San Diego check out Citizen Smash here.
Do Tough Child Support Laws Discourage Men From Becoming Unwed Fathers? Angela Winters looks at this issue extensively in this thoughtful post.
SUPREME COURT RULING COSTS SUPREME COURT JUSTICES THEIR HOMES: Oh, really?
If You Love ‘Family Guy’ (TMV does: he just got the CD collection and has been watching them steadily with his 13-year-old nephew Greg when Greg is here) then you’ll love this news…
Two Interesting Opinion Pieces Written By Third Party members can be read via the links here.
Lynching Statistics: Intriguing.
Are We Heading Towards A New Stone Age By The End Of This Century? Jazz Shaw lays out the case that specific signs show that may indeed be what’s happening as our resources dwindle.
Is Vice President Dick Cheney Sick? No, we mean physically….And we mean ‘bigtime.” Arianna Huffington thinks so and thinks there’s a cover up bigger than a hospital sheet…
What To DO About Comments? Some blogs don’t enable them due to excess spam, discussion that deteriorates into personal attacks and taunts, or a belief that comments are like letters to the editor and should be allowed selectively. Bloggers can choose to turn off comments, delete and ban (some do it a lot, some selectively) if it gets out of hand…but some blogs just don’t allow comments. It’s great to see one of the best legal blogs on the Internet opening itself up to reader’s comments: The Volokh Conspiracy, a site that triggers lots of thought will allow some of those thoughts to be transferred into enabled comments. Eugene Volokh writes, in part:
I’m generally very pleased with our experimental enabling of comments. Nonetheless, I want to stress to people that we reserve the right to remove comments, in our own discretion (and the converse right to be busy enough with other things that we don’t bother removing certain comments even if, given enough time, we might have).
Rudeness is obviously one cause for removal; a comment’s being off-topic is another. But we may also remove comments in some other situations, for instance, when someone frequently posts things that are chiefly rants, fairly wild exaggeration, or invective (even without the use of major vulgarities).
And he reminds readers that it’s a big Internet out there. If their comment is removed there are other ways to get their ideas across. We think it’s simple for everyone: discuss issues, don’t insult or hurl abusive adjectives — keep it to ideas on a topic rather than trying to go after someone who may disagree with you because they disagree with you. Actually, that’d be a nice formula for our daily political life, too…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.