Rethink.

• On Afghanistan: “What Bush got right offers clues for Obama.” fta — Obama’s war-fighting promise was to scale down Iraq and ramp up Afghanistan, which he argued was the nec­es­sary war. He has the strat­egy and the men to do just that, thanks in large part to the man who is least likely to be given credit, George W. Bush.
• Joel Stein, “To Vac­ci­nate or Not To Vac­ci­nate.” fta — Sev­eral friends have not vac­ci­nated their chil­dren, and we know pedi­a­tri­cians who rec­om­mend avoid­ing some or all shots. And I know almost no one who is will­ing to get the swine-flu shot, and not because every­one here is Jew­ish. It’s because while the far right gets a lot of crap about not believ­ing in sci­ence, the left isn’t crazy about it either. Only instead of reject­ing facts that con­flict with the Bible, it ignores any­thing that con­flicts with hip­pie myths about the per­fec­tion of nature.
• It is incred­i­bly dan­ger­ous to give blan­ket approval to the Right nowa­days, or any­thing that opposes the Demo­c­ra­tic party. The right-wing blo­gos­phere has been fatally com­pro­mised: see Kejda Gjermani’s excel­lent cri­tique of one blog­ger & the accom­pa­ny­ing com­ments to under­stand how insane things have gotten.
• “The unem­ploy­ment rate for young Amer­i­cans has exploded to 52.2 percent”

• Links, 9/11/09
• Mostly Polit­i­cal Links, 11/20/09
• Links, 2/15/10
• Links, 5/26/10
• Links, 8/9/10

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