{"id":14749,"date":"2009-05-08T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-08-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-05-08T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T00:01:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-08-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-08-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 08 May 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.babynamewizard.com\/archives\/2009\/5\/americas-most-popular-names-of-2008\">America&#8217;s most popular names of 2008 | The Baby Name Wizard<\/a> &#8211; Nothing too horrific here, fortunately.  .<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/dnbnB_IzLg8\/090508045321.htm\">Increased Food Intake Alone Explains Rise In Obesity In United States, Study  Finds<\/a> &#8211; Actually, this is interesting &#8212; it&#8217;s not so much that we&#8217;ve become more couch potatoes, but that we&#8217;re stuffing our faces more (while we do so?).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/ctRvvpYPjUQ\/pepsi-faced-with-shareholder-protest-by-exgay-fundies\">Pepsi faced with shareholder protest by ex-gay fundies<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, Teh Evill Gayz, they are such the haters.  If only society could be rid of them, we would all live in such peace and happiness and puppies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/nom-do-we-say-not-we-do\">NOM: Do As We Say, Not As We Do<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Remember, kids &#8212; hypocrisy is only reprehensible if the other guy does it!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/retrozone.tumblr.com\/post\/104985012\">Photo (NSFW)<\/a> &#8211; I may be old-fashioned, but I&#8217;d stack this up against any of the siliconed, bleached, anorexic Barbie Doll wannabes that pass for models these days (spokesfolk for California Christian Republicans or not).  Like over-bred dogs they&#8217;ve mutated beyond the range of viability.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2009_05_03-2009_05_09.shtml#1241574478\">Chrysler Won&#8217;t Pay Back Government Money Loaned So Far. &#8211; The Volokh Conspiracy &#8211; &#8211;<\/a> &#8211; I <b>am<\/b> surprised that there is no paper assets (equity in whatever emerges from bankruptcy) that would come from all this.  Or, on the other hand, not all that much surprised.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/qE_dvHkZ_Qk\/mpaa-to-teachers-don.html\">MPAA to teachers: don&#8217;t rip DVDs, just record your television with a  camcorder<\/a> &#8211; But don&#8217;t record movies with a camcorder, or the MPAA will bust your ass.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/i8vKiro2sTs\/san-francisco-muni-b.html\">San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/bsha8jU-2ws\/your-ashes-on-the-mo.html\">Your ashes on the Moon<\/a> &#8211; I just have a sense that this isn&#8217;t a good idea (what next, storing our nuclear waste up there?).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/kiss-rush-limbaugh-signals-sarah-pal\">The Kiss of Rush: Limbaugh signals that Sarah Palin&#8217;s the One | Crooks and Liars<\/a> &#8211; Thank heavens!  I was so worried that Sarah was going to fade away and that the GOP might end up with someone actually articulate and moderately intelligent as a standard-bearer.  But if Rush is touting Sarah as the Great White Hope, then we can all relax.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/almighty_god_is_a_twitterer\/\">Almighty God is a Twit(terer).<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I will follow Him &#8230; follow Him where-ever He may pooooost &#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2009\/05\/more_things_you_learn_from_lis.html\">More things you learn from listening to Right Wing Radio&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Nobody will be surprised to discover that I have three or four different mustards in my fridge &#8212; most of them spicy, some of them distinctly Dijon &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/thenote\/2009\/05\/intelligence-re.html\">Intelligence Report: Pelosi Briefed on Use of Interrogation Tactics in Sept. \u201902 &#8211; The Note<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, no surprise here.  And the plausible reason why the House Democratic leadership spoke tough but didn&#8217;t really do anything about any of this, and hasn&#8217;t gotten behind any sort of further investigation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/05\/specter-norm-coleman-shou_n_197057.html\">Specter: Norm Coleman Should Be Seated [UPDATE: Specter &#8220;Misspoke&#8221;]<\/a> &#8211; Specter &#8230; misspoke on Coleman?  An interesting thought, possibly plausible (though not speaking well of him being a knee-jerk partisan for his new team, either).<\/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;. America&#8217;s most popular names of 2008 | The Baby Name Wizard &#8211; Nothing too horrific here, fortunately. . Increased Food Intake Alone Explains Rise In Obesity In United States, Study Finds &#8211; Actually, this is interesting &#8212; it&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-08-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 08 May 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-14749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}