{"id":14617,"date":"2009-04-23T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-23-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:00:53","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-23-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-23-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 23 April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/04\/22\/i-shouldve-been-a-pastor\/\">I Should\u2019ve Been a Pastor\u2026<\/a> &#8211; Too many churches are thinly disguised cults of personality.  Too many others think they can get the best pastor that money can buy, and that it&#8217;s a fine investment if it brings in the big bucks.  Feh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/9L7csdRcUe0\/greenwald-jane-harma.html\">Greenwald: &#8220;Jane Harman: Angry, partisan, civil liberties extremist&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Sauce for the goose.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Mi3JHKp_MLw\/uae-royal-caught-tor.html\">UAE royal caught torturing man on video<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Look at us, with no moral high ground to stand on.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/thesoul\/daily_reading\/a_prayer_for_friends_1.html\">A prayer for friends<\/a> &#8211; Interestingly appropriate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/toolbar.aspx?action=print&amp;id=2216608\">Search Me &#8211; Slate<\/a> &#8211; Why, all of a sudden, does the Supreme Court of the United States sound like an episode of &quot;Beavis &amp; Butthead&quot;?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=20954\">In God We Rust: Final Thoughts on Battlestar Galactica<\/a> &#8211; This analysis makes so much sense to me, and explains why I found the end of the series so jarringly unbelievable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/denver\/stories\/2009\/04\/20\/daily39.html\">Bizjournals: Highlands Ranch, Centennial among 250 most affluent U.S. cities &#8211; Denver Business Journal:<\/a> &#8211; No wonder the parents are always coming to visit here.  Though I note that two cities I used to live in (Claremont, Mountain View) both scored higher.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykostv.com\/w\/001217\/\">Special Forces officer schools O\u2019Reilly in debate on torture &#8211; Daily Kos TV (beta)<\/a> &#8211; Poor Bill.  He can&#8217;t get his guests to tell him that torture is okay in the increasingly hypothetical situations he keeps pushing forward, desperately trying to say that torture is okay.  If only Obama would release all the magic memos (that folks have previously argued <b>shouldn&#8217;t<\/b> be released), then it would be proven, O&#8217;Reilly maintains.  Yeah, right.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2009\/04\/22\/spaghetti-dogs-the-cheap-and-cheerful-treat\/\">Spaghetti Dogs: The Cheap and Cheerful Treat<\/a> &#8211; This is remarkably clever.  Kids would love it, as would SF-minded adults.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. I Should\u2019ve Been a Pastor\u2026 &#8211; Too many churches are thinly disguised cults of personality. Too many others think they can get the best pastor that money can buy, and that it&#8217;s a fine investment if it brings in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-23-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 23 April 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27707,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/beat-the-gay-out-of-your-kids-aw-i-was-just-joking.html","url_meta":{"origin":14617,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Beat the gay out of your kids?  Aw, I was just joking!&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-May-12 8:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because, of course, he certainly sounds like he's joking on the audio. And because, of course, joking about breaking the \"limp wrist\" of an \"effeminate\" boy is also just the sort of thing Jesus did all the time in his preaching. Jesus was all about the personal violence metaphors, you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":22918,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/01\/unblogged-bits-sat-1-oct-11-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":14617,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sat.  1-Oct-11 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Oct-11 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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