What I’m Reading, Saturday, May 19, 2012

Politics

• The TED talk they won’t show | Mano Singham
  • The ‘Tax the Rich’ Talk TED Deemed ‘Too Political’ to Post (UPDATE: Now with Video)
• Going To Extreme – NYTimes.com
• Presidential Job Records – NYTimes.com
  

  …So compare private-sector job creation from January 2001 to January 2009 — the Bush era — with job creation from January 2009 to April 2012. Or maybe you think presidents shouldn’t be held accountable for their first year, and want to start either comparison from the first January after inauguration. Here are the results:

  

• Hakeem Jeffries: Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? – The Washington Post
• Fox News Finds Another Poll To Distort — Its Own | Media Matters for America
  

Business

• Andy Borwitz weighs in on the Facebook IPO; A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg « Borowitz Report

Science

• To Mount St. Helens on the 32nd Anniversary of Her May 18th, 1980 Eruption | Rosetta Stones, Scientific American Blog Network

Rational Thinking

Happy Birthday Pharyngula!

• Celebrate, We Must. Yes. | Blue Collar Atheist