Links again

Still trying to catch up but it’s like the Augean stables on my bookmarks. Only with less dung.
•A special vault guards three million different varieties of seeds.
•Gary Wills on why who we vote for does matter.
•I think I may have posted this before, but it’s worth mentioning again: Several leaders of the religious right apparently picked gay marriage as the Great Cause because of its fund-raising potential.
•David Brooks still believes (at least as of last year) that war is good for the Middle East. And he’s always ready to assure us that the wealth of the 1 percent is nothing to worry about.
•The Pentagon predicts cutting the military budget will worsen unemployment. The Nation argues that putting the money into other government programs would improve things. Among other reasons, because so much of military spending goes on things (high-tech, top-flight materials) rather than people.
•We have a secular government in this country, and that’s a good thing.
•Conservative bloggers freak out over Gay Pride Week.
•For sheer nuttiness: Limbaugh claims making the villain in the new Bat-movie “Bane” is obviously an anti-Romney slur.
I suspect this is an example of what Stephen Colbert calls “truthiness”—it doesn’t matter that it’s bullshit, it tells audience members who want to think there’s a vast conspiracy against the glorious Republican movement that yes, they’re right! It fits and confirms their preconceptions and that makes them happy.