Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
California Judge Rules That Sea World’s Whales Are Not Actually ‘Slaves’ ~ Nice to see a brief flash of judicial sanity in CA after the 9th Circus ruling on Prop 8.
 
Conservapedia -the Trustworthy Encyclopedia ~ Bookmark this one. It’s the conservative alternative to Wikipedia.
 
Obama’s trampling on God’s turf now ~ (Patrick J. Buchanan) “Traditional Christianity is besieged.” Contending for the soul of America.
 
Video of Eric Metaxas’s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 2, 2012 ~ “This is a Bonhoeffer moment.” You really should watch this. [Spoiler alert… they all sing “Amazing Grace” at the end :)]
 
“To Stop the Multiplication of the Unfit” ~ Amid the debate over religious liberty vs. funding for abortion and contraception, Michelle Malkin reminds us of the sinister history behind the abortion movement. The evil legacy of Margaret Sanger.
 

 
Ballarat child squeezes inside vending machine ~ From Australia. Three-year-old somehow managed to squeeze into one of those grab-your-prize machines! That’s one determined little dude 😀
 
 
Are You Living by “The Prius Fallacy?” ~ Consuming more. Justifying it more. Still not satisfied ~

In other words, the issue is not that we’re consuming the wrong things; the issue is that we’re consuming so much and still aren’t satisfied. And a great way we’ve found to feed this greed is to portray our new purchases as virtuous “sacrifices,” offerings made selflessly to the gods of environmentalism…
 
..the real problem behind our planet’s environmental issues: the sinful human heart.