The Beat Beat Beat of the Tom Toms

• Via Mercury Rising, the United States Lost Output Clock.  Tracking production and income lost since the financial mess of 2008 and comparing it to wealth gained by the 1%.  Austerity is a lie.  Nobody's going to put this information on billboards outside of airports, either.  So share it with your friends!
• Florida lawmakers strike again.  As usual.  Via Just an Earth-Bound Misfit, I, with added ridicule.

  Good old Florida, even the legislature in Texas is looking at them and saying: "Guys, really?"

• Speaking of bad law, Zandar Versus The Stupid cites Indiana's criminalization of applying for or officiating at a same-sex marriage.
• Terrance at Republic of T calls for a constitutional right to vote.

  That the Voting Rights Act needs fixing, and was even necessary in the first place underscores a glaring lack of any explicit right to vote in the constitution. The constitution never explicitly spells out or ensures a right to vote, but merely describes the ways people cannot be denied the right to vote. (It was less a right than a privilege bestowed upon white, male property owners.) The qualifications for voters are left to the states. As long as those qualifications don’t conflict with the constitution, the right to vote can be denied.