Link roundup for 23 October 2010

Yep -- worst ad placement ever.

PZ Myers gets another moron e-mail.

Elvira's not a witch either.

Diligent tax authorities demand that Snezana Kolar Tomic prove her claim that her daughter earned no income last year (found via Mendip).

I bet they get a lot of would-be buyers.

Is this the teabag that launched a thousand ships?

Blogging Sleuth is a brand-new blog dedicated to researching and exposing the identity-stealing fake-blog problem.

Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project is making a difference despite the whiners. Note recent messages of support from two prominent heterosexuals.

Third-party candidates are set to have a real impact this year -- for example, rogue teabaggers could cost the Republicans up to 20 House seats.

Rape victims protest anti-abortion fanaticism in Colorado (found via Republic of Gilead).

State legislators challenge the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

Swing voters should ask themselves these questions, but many won't.

Republicans may do well in November due to voter apathy -- but not if we keep exposing what they really stand for, which in some cases extends to treason.

Health insurance reform needs to be improved, not abandoned.

Momma Politico posts a guide to the California ballot.

Alaska's Senate race could be a cliffhanger.

More evidence surfaces of racism in the Virginia Republican party (more here), while a bungled effort to re-write history is exposed (all three links sent by Mendip).

Religion is killing our most vulnerable young people (found via Republic of Gilead). Maggie Gallagher dodges and obfuscates.

Bigoted Republican leaders live in a bubble of like-minded people, but their words have consequences in the wider world.

Truth is truth and lying is lying.

Religious fanatics linked to a Hawaii Republican seek to destroy pagan art (found via Republic of Gilead).

Chicago's parking meters are under new ownership (found via Green Eagle).

Merkel dares to say the obvious: immigration must lead to the melting pot, not the salad bowl.

We need to think now about what to do when North Korea falls.

A rot of evil spreads in Britain.

Here's a good example of why I never trust wireless connections -- no security.

This door is sturdy, elegant, and more than 5,000 years old (sent by Demwit).

1,160 years ago, 200 people alone in a small valley were all killed at the same time by blows to the head. How did it happen?

Teen pregnancy rates are falling again after rising in the last years of the Bush administration, but the divide between blue and red states persists.

Parsley's Pics posts a series about bipolar disorder: Introduction, Bipolar 101, Depression, Mania, Conclusion.

Medical quackery is not harmless -- but one anti-quack fighter is just getting started.

Ken Cuccinelli continues to harass climate scientists (sent by Mendip). Hey, who knows, under enough pressure maybe the scientists will back down. It worked on Galileo.

Eppur si muove.....back in the real world, 2010 so far is one of the two warmest years on record (found via Green Eagle).

The Arctic as it was is gone forever.

Maria Konovalenko posts on some exciting new developments in technology: a test of embryonic stem cells to treat paralysis, work on nanotechnology to repair cell damage, growing organs in the lab for transplantation, progress on reversing aging in muscle tissue, and research on cleansing cells of debris and how DNA is repaired.