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I read this a couple of times. It was late and I was sure I had missed the thrust. Conservative James Wigderson begins with a fable about Zeus and frogs, then writes an entertaining tale of a group of shop owners who want government bosses replaced. They meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Certain details are obscure. What did the old boss do wrong? What did the new boss promise? What did the new boss do that was worse? It's quite entertaining, though. James is really that good.

Manifesto Joe of Texas Blues examines abortion rights and determines that a huge part of the argument is seriously off track. An interesting analysis.

PZ Myers, writing for Pharyngula, is pretty upset about a bill here in Missouri mandating that "intelligent design" be taught as part of school curriculum. I suppose my beliefs could be characterized as a sort of hybrid, mutant form of intelligent design. But it does give me the willies that my religious beliefs might be taught as science in any classroom funded by taxpayers or where attendance is a matter of law. My beliefs are not science.

Nancy Hanks at The Hankster discovers that Republicans in Utah and Idaho are changing rules to keep "outsiders" outside the party looking in

T. Paine, at Saving Common Sense, says things are better in Utah than in California because Utah is conservative and California is ... well ... you know.

Rumproast hears from a conservative activist in Idaho that insurance companies are kind of like the victims of the holocaust. I guess we could see it as an expansion of Mitt Romney's "Corporations are people too, my friend."

It's hard to imagine how it must feel to be a parent of a child lost in Newtown. Michael John Scott of Mad Mike's America looks into an incident of heckling that may not be heckling as a father speaks out in a public meeting. Facts and video are provided and we are asked to decide for ourselves.

News Corpse watches as Fox News creates another story out of thin air. Seems the University of Chicago is going to tear down a small building where Ronald Reagan lived for a short time as a little kid. The university is also trying to get Obama to consider letting them host his eventual presidential library. If there is ever an overflow, it might be possible that some visitors to the library, the one the school hopes Obama might consider letting them host, could find their way over to park in the parking lot that hasn't been built yet. So Fox News is abuzz with the permutation of the speculation that has Obama tearing down the Reagan boyhood home to build parking for his library on the smoldering remains. Conservatives are furious at Obama for the plan, that is not a plan, that he has no part in, that has nothing to do with the Obama Library, that may or may not be built there. It's a multi-degree of separation sort of story that primes the perpetual Republican outrage machine.

Max's Dad romps all over golfer Phil Mickelson for pretending he pays 62 percent of his income in taxes.

Tommy Christopher of Mediaite reports on conservative attacks against, of all people Gabby Giffords the Congressional representative who had to resign after her miracle survival when a gunman put a bullet into her brain. She spoke movingly and haltingly before a hearing on gun safety, and is now ridiculed by some conservatives who maintain she couldn't possibly have come up with her own words.

Dave Dubya at Freedom Rants brings news from an Arizona town of martial law and "papers please" enforcement in which heavily armed police will demand IDs from everyone.

The Heathen Republican says the Constitution needs a bit of sprucing up and modestly suggest three items from the conservative wish list as amendments.

Tim McGaha at Tim's Thoughtful Spot recalls, ten years later, the Columbia space shuttle disaster.

Infidel 753 illustrates, in an entertaining video, how technological changes are unnoticed in the background as they bring the world into seismic shifts.

I wish I knew how he does it so I could do it. Vincent of A wayfarer's notes combines Plato's philosophy of a plane of existence in which the perfect form of each idea exists, combines it with algebra in a variable substitution, then pretty much contrasts all of it with lilacs he notices growing in the mud. Fascinating.

Monday is a birthday and Jack Jodell, at THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON POST, celebrates the late Rosa Parks, who lived 92 momentous years of the last 100.