Comments on: Missing Link Daily

By: glen

glen — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:09:14 +0000

not sure if MW online dictionary will have relevant entry…

‘Remediation’ is a concept for thinking about relation between media. For example, the internet remediates newspapers, and some newspapers try to remediate the internet. The book:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3468

By: C.L.

C.L. — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:21:04 +0000

Glad to hear it, Gummo. When are you going to stop being a hanger-on here, by the way, having already been a panhandler at LP? Don’t you find it demeaning?

By: Currency Lad Tragic Gummo Trotsky

Currency Lad Tragic Gummo Trotsky — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:14:37 +0000

It’s just a passing fad with me, since I took over the Currency Lad monitoring from gilmae. And I’m pretty well over it by now and ready to let you lapse once more into the ’boutique blogging’ you prefer and quite richly deserve.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:01:38 +0000

This site’s bowerbird bloggers (who appear to have given up writing anything themselves) are definitely obsessed with me.

By: The Worst of Perth

The Worst of Perth — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:27:47 +0000

“a disgraceful arsehole of tradition.” That’s gold. I wish I had said that.

By: gilmae

gilmae — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:24:04 +0000

Depends, Patrick, I suppose on whether you think abstinence-only/no-condoms programs are merely futile, useful, or dangerously counter-productive. If you believe it is the later, which that author does, than spending so much money on such a strategy is toxic. No?

By: NPOV

NPOV — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:19:55 +0000

Toxic is exactly the right word, if so much spending is potentially counter-productive. Even if it’s mostly ineffective, it’s a massive waste of money that could preferably be spent on effective measures.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:07:59 +0000

Patrick,

From the linked article:

Everybody knows by now how not a single penny of the money that George Bush has allocated for HIV/AIDS is allowed to be given to any group that hands out or recommends condoms as a means of fighting the spread of the disease.

Plus there’s the Bush policy that denies federal funding of public high schools to schools that offer any form of sex education other than the ‘abstinence only’ variety, in the face of all the evidence that these programs actually result in more teenage pregnancies and more unprotected sex (with the associated risk of transmitting HIV/AIDS).

Toxic and stupid, I’d say.

By: gatewatching - » Further to the previous two posts…

gatewatching - » Further to the previous two posts… — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:00:00 +0000

[...] of Club Troppo’s always excellent Missing Link, I was led to read Lyn Calcutt’s view on the climate change blow-up of the last few days. [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:51:20 +0000

GW Bushs religion-driven toxic path on HIV/AIDS policy

‘Toxic’ is surely a little harsh for someone who has spent more than anyone else on HIV/AIDs.