{"id":14622,"date":"2009-04-24T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-24-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:13:16","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-24-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-24-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 24 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:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-oped0423chapmanapr23,0,4882177.column\">Waking up to torture truths &#8212; chicagotribune.com<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s the bottom line in the bottom two paragraphs:  if &#8220;it works&#8221; is the real reason, what line can ever be drawn, and on what moral basis other than self-interest and survival?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/aclj-out-front-another-bogus-controversy\">ACLJ Out Front of Another Bogus Controversy<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s difficult to tell whether these guys are sincerely paranoid, or just out to drum up trouble.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/adf-offers-free-legal-representation-those-who-refuse-recognize-iowas-gay-marriages\">ADF Offers Free Legal Representation to Those Who Refuse to Recognize Iowa&#8217;s  Gay Marriages<\/a> &#8211; Is it really their position that issuing a civil marriage license to a gay couple constitutes a violation of religious conscience?  Is there a particular reason why that couldn&#8217;t also apply to issuing marriage licenses to mixed-race couples, or couples of a faith not that of the county clerk, or couples who seem too young, or whatever other conscientious whim might seize the clerk in question?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.digg.com\/~r\/digg\/popular\/~3\/fnfD3gMRxsE\/How_Twitter_Digg_and_Social_Media_Are_Going_to_Save_Iraq\">How Twitter, Digg and Social Media Are Going to Save Iraq<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s hardly a panacea, but it can&#8217;t hurt (flame wars becoming actual wars fought with flame aside).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/04\/23\/a-moment-of-silence-for-geocities\/\">A moment of silence for GeoCities<\/a> &#8211; I used GeoCities very early on.  It&#8217;s a shame to see it go, no matter how zany its remaining denizens had become.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/uTD3_bB7kHc\/time-warner-cable-cannot-possibly-compete-with-the-small-city-of-wilson-nc\">Time Warner Cable Cannot *Possibly *Compete With The Small City Of Wilson,  NC [Monopolies]<\/a> &#8211; If you can&#8217;t beat &#8217;em, try and get &#8217;em outlawed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/23\/shimkus-co2-assault\/\">Shimkus: Capping CO2 a greater \u2018assault on democracy\u2019 than 9\/11.<\/a> &#8211; Remarkably reality-challenged.<\/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;. Waking up to torture truths &#8212; chicagotribune.com &#8211; There&#8217;s the bottom line in the bottom two paragraphs: if &#8220;it works&#8221; is the real reason, what line can ever be drawn, and on what moral basis other than self-interest and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-24-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 24 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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9548,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/jon_stewart_and.html","url_meta":{"origin":14622,"position":0},"title":"Jon Stewart and the gay marriage debate","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Jun-06 11:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Oh, my. 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It\u2019s because it redefines marriage as an institution of love instead of oppression.'I.e., the traditional part that is threatened is\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":61,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/03\/sauce_for_the_g-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":14622,"position":2},"title":"Sauce for the gander","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jul-03 7:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"I am, to be honest, very satisfied with the Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence, striking down anti-sodomy laws. 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