Sunday, January 2, 2011

Sunday Globe Special: Gays, Genetics, and Global Warming

And maybe a few other items:

Page one

Hopes for gay-rights gains shift to courts

A big experiment in big science

Giving art-house films a home

Patrick may trim legislators’ salaries

Nation

"The reaction in Congress and industry has been outsized, with some likening the EPA to terrorists... 

If the fart-misting footprint fits then....

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Related: 2010 confirmed as warmest year on record in Mass.

Yeah, that's why they were pulling turtles out of the ocean because of hypothermia back in October.

"Call it the Tea Party-ization of Congress....

“This is the way the establishment handles grass-roots movements. They humor people who are not expert or not fully cognizant. And then once they’ve humored them and those people go away, it’s right back to business as usual. It looks like this will be business as usual.’’ -- Kevin Gutzman, a history professor at Western Connecticut State University who said he is a conservative libertarian and sympathizes with the Tea Party movement.

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Muslim women find empowerment in United States  

They find bombs and bullets if they stay at home.

World

Fire forces Israel to reassess tradition of tree planting

Related: Israel Plays With Fire and Gets Burned 

Didn't your moms warn you about playing with matches?  

Civil rights activists tap new media 

Which I'm not reading about in old media. 

Metro
"Nevertheless, war has been an incubator for medical progress as far back as the time of the Roman legions. From mayhem and disease, new insights emerge....   

Yeah, wars are great. 

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I'll stick with new media: 

"It was last year’s “Avatar” that caused the technology to explode in popularity. Grossing the most money ever will do that....  

And once again the Globe doesn't like it.

--more--" 

Also seeThe Lesson of Avatar

MSM Monitor Movie Matinee

It is the Globe that gives me a headache.

Time for a nap, readers.  

War and its promotion always makes one tired.