Links o’ Interest

Meet Irena Sendler, who saved 2,500 Jews during the Holocaust. Tortured by the Nazis, she never said word one, and turned 97 this week.

An object lesson in “we will never ask for your username or password”. The last line is priceless.

A great cartoon
– Bush’s Justice Department, based on their testimony.

Approval ratings of Presidents since 1945. Very interesting graph, though it’s odd they cut the top one off before Bush’s plummet.

How Racist are you? Find out here. (I am low to moderate.)

Not the greatest work of my favorite online comic, but it’s just so relevant to me. Xkcd is great.

Those wacky southerners! Hilarious.

Someone finally wins Simon Cowell over. Update: He won!

What’s being poor like? “Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.” This list has stuck with me for days. Things like this is what makes me liberal.

An interesting essay on how we experience politics, from a psychological viewpoint. I took his Psych 101 course long ago. He was a great lecturer, single-handedly convincing many of my classmates to become psych majors, where we stats majors had to help them graduate. Good times.

If only they could show this on TV.

4 thoughts on “Links o’ Interest”

  1. Very interesting presidential approval ratings. I find it remarkable that from 1953 to 1966, the president maintained an approval rating of 50% or more.

    Interestingly enough, the second longest streak is from 1996 to 2004 — surviving Lewinsky, a very controversial election, and the beginning of Iraq.

    Bush’s approval ratings have been the crapper for so long, it’s hard to believe we’ll get another streak of these lengths for a while. Especially with such a major divide between the two parties.

  2. Being Poor list is powerful. Things like that never cease to remind me that I’ve been unbelievably lucky (and continue to be) in life and that I don’t know shit about what many people have to go through.

    “Being poor is having to live with choices you didn’t know you made when you were 14 years old.”
    This, I think, is one of the core problems we have. So many choices we make, so many choices we have to make, are done when we are little more than puppies, just bumbling through life without a clue.
    Worse, people then think that, since you made that choice, you deserve what you get.
    (now, if you KEEP making those choices, thats something else. A friend of mine said a 15 year old girl who gets pregnant without meaning to is tragic. A 35 year old woman who gets pregnant without meaning to is just sad (usually))

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