Sunday Linkblast - August 16

• The 'New' is for the ideas and the kind of politics
  The name won't be changed, credit Broadbent's speech and the unfortunate connotation the new acronym would have had in Quebec for nobody being too upset that time ran out before the idea could be debated.
  
  
• Momentum may be shifting in US Healthcare debate
  But given a chance the Democrats will negotiate away any real reform.
  
  
• Pop Culture blender at Bourbon and Bongwater
  Reviews, music and comics with an emphasis on sex, drugs and zombie movies.
  
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird banned by Catholic High School in Ontario
  Principal: It's not really censorship because I'm just yanking it from the approved curriculum and barring classroom discussions because of the complaint of one parent.
  
  
• A Modest Proposal
  NASA scientists suggest that if Earth gets too hot we could move it to cooler parts of the Solar System
  
  
• Kiss-ins at Mormon Churches
  The Latter Day Saints AKA the Mormons only let non-whites hold leadership roles in the church in the 1970's. They promoted and financed the Proposition 8 referendum on stripping a California minority of some of their civil rights last year. They have a right to freely practice their faith and the minority they are attacking have a right to freely protest those attacks.
  
  
• Going Viral
  A new mathematical model for determining how some information achieves a critical mass of explosive dissemination
  
  
• The Anti-Healthcare forces in the US argue that under a government run healthcare system like Britain's, Stephen Hawkins would have been judged unfit and could never have survived as long as he has. Just a few problems with this remarkable suggestion...
  Investors Business Daily is apparently the paper for those who think the Wall Street Journal is run by a bunch of squishy leftists.
  
  
• The Quest for the acid spitting Mongolian Death Worm
  A story from the real world that sounds straight to video.