Sporadic Posting this week

I'm going to be posting sporadically this week. I have a lot of stuff to do at work and I'm transitioning to a new area in my job as well, so it's like I have two jobs...sort of. I'll try to cross-link interesting articles and/or posts, but I wouldn't expect anything substantiative from me unless I get struck my inspiration (i.e. procrastination). Thanks, and remember:

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. [Mark Twain].