Sunday Issues Links: 23 November 2008

Sunday Issues Links is a list linking to useful, worthwhile, compelling and/or provocative posts from elderbloggers and stories from other sources that catch my fancy during the week.

The issues are the big ones and there are plenty: the economy, war(s), the Obama administration, Congress, the judiciary, legislation, education, health care and politics in general. Smaller issues and a little humor are good too. Please send your links for each edition by the end of day on the preceding Friday.

ELDERBLOGGERS
From Mort Reichek of Octogenarian: How Obama Must Cope With Bush Foreign Policy Blunders

From Sylvia Kirkwood of Sylvia From Over the Hill: Rescuing Our Country

From James Whaley of Aging and Disability in America: Change of the Seasons #3

OTHER MEDIA SOURCES
From Saul Friedman of Newsday: A Reporter Recalls the Day JFK Died

From Kathleen Parker: Giving Up on God
(My new favorite conservative columnist has some smart things to say about religion, politics and the Republican Party.)

From HuffingtonPost (via friend, John Brandt): Obama’s Use of Complete Sentences

From The New York Times: Wild Horses

From the International Herald Tribune: Coming to a Zoo Near You: Live Mammoths (Maybe)

From The New York Times: What is the Point of Daylight Time

From the Los Angeles Times: Bush’s Land Mines for Obama

Similarly from the New Yorker: Midnight Hour

From the Washington Post: Obama Raised Half a Billion Online

FUN AND SILLINESS
Cat on a spinning Roomba [:46 seconds]

Comments

[chancy]

Thanks for the belly laugh. The cat on the Roomba is too cute.

[Mage B]

The cat was just what I needed today. Have you seen the hamsters on Dee's coffee blog.

[Alice]

Ah, thanks so much for this silliness. It's the kind of break that helps me deal with all the other stuff going on, such as the posts that followed this. Now I not only want a Roomba, I want a cat to ride on it! Endless entertainment.

[Alice]

Sorry. 'Shoulda previewed that comment before submitting it. But I think you understand it's not your posts I refer to as "stuff to endure" but the subject matter pertained therein!