Undone by the unpacking

Going well, but phew!
I believe we have finally unpacked all the nonfiction, though it’s not shelved yet. But we have the space for it, which I’d actually wondered about.
Comic-book TPBs are up and roughly shelved.
Fiction … we’re going to need more bookshelves. Not to mention shelving my memorabilia and photos.
And of course, I still don’t know where to put all the fancy glassware TYG has (that we’ve never used even once).
So tonight, another linkpost.
•Lance Mannion rips into Mitt Romney’s complaint that the 47 percent voting for Obama are all freeloaders who don’t pay taxes. Slacktivist collects more incredulity. The Daily Howler points out that a few years ago, Bush was pushing to wipe out income taxes on more Americans and Republicans weren’t bitching about it. However, the Howler also notes that if liberals/Democrats don’t explain the truth, there are people who’ll swallow Romney’s bilge. So let’s be clear: The 47 percent are those who pay no income taxes, but they pay sales tax, gas tax and Social Security tax (and the vast majority of Romney’s income is not Social Security-taxed, as it taps out at around $110,000). And many of them pay no income tax because they’re retired and living on Social Security, or disabled, or kids or seniors dependent on someone else.
Spread the word.
•I reported Monday that a judge had blocked Obama’s power of indefinite detention. Thanks to an appeals court, it’s back on. Glenn Greenwald goes into detail on the issue.
•Echidne points out that a group at the Values Voters conservative summit is demanding women dress modestly and display “gentleness of spirit” (presumably meaning Don’t Talk Back To Your Masters). Think Progress goes into more detail, including that the group acknowledges that yes, the responsibility for lustful thoughts is the man’s but women just make it sooooooo difficult. If the excerpts from the group’s handouts are accurate, immodest dressing is an insult to God but apparently the lustful thoughts aren’t. As Echidne points out, the Taliban impulse is alive and well among some religious conservatives.
For an even odder bit of conservative Christian prudery, this review of Men in Flying Saucers, a 1950s nonfiction book (so to speak) revealing that flying saucers are a Communist plot to take over America by spreading “dancing, sex-freedom, and free love.”