{"id":12233,"date":"2008-06-19T08:12:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/06\/19\/potpourri-for-a-thursday-morning.html"},"modified":"2008-06-19T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T15:12:56","slug":"potpourri_for_a_thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/potpourri_for_a_thursday.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for a Thursday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nibbles and bits from&nbsp;my Google Reader Shared Items.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"George Takei Takes Out Marriage License\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=81439e30abd76f416faf0561eb248c3e\">George Takei Takes Out Marriage License<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/raw_feed_index.rdf\">The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com<\/a><\/small> <br \/> Boldly go, Mr. Sulu!<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"How to sabotage corporations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/how_to_sabotage_corporations\/\">How to sabotage corporations<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/index\/\">Decrepit Old Fool<\/a><\/small> <br \/> Obviously the CIA has infiltrated my company &#8230; and, to judge from Dilbert, everyone else&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"McCain's Desperate Debate Gambit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=mccains_desperate_debate_gambit\">McCain&#8217;s Desperate Debate Gambit<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\">The American Prospect Articles<\/a><\/small> <br \/> Town hall meetings are fine &#8212; but, as the article points out, that&#8217;s now how a president generally communicates with the citizenry. The only advantage a town hall format provides for McCain is that he truly sucks at making speeches.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Privatizing The Army\" href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/06\/privatizing-the.html\">Privatizing The Army<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/\">Obsidian Wings<\/a><\/small> <br \/> As this article points out, the recent Army Audit \/ KBR scandal is not so awful because an auditor was overridden (and cast out) in trying to deny KBR payment on some dubious charges (to the tune of $1B), but because KBR was essentially able to blackmail the Army into paying them, or else they&#8217;d cut off their food in Iraq. We&#8217;re not just outsourcing things that can save money, we&#8217;re outsourcing things that are absolutely critical to our operations. Does that really make any sense?<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"F\/X Maestro Winston Is Dead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/index.php?id=56110\">F\/X Maestro Winston Is Dead<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/scifiwire\/\">SCI FI Wire<\/a><\/small> <br \/> I love computer graphics, but not only did Stan Winston and his folks create some of the kickingest-ass physical SFX in horror and sci-fi before CGI was a gleam in Tron&#8217;s eye, they continue to do work retains a physical reality beyond what computers can yet provide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nibbles and bits from&nbsp;my Google Reader Shared Items. George Takei Takes Out Marriage License&nbsp;from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Boldly go, Mr. Sulu! 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