{"id":14780,"date":"2009-05-12T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-12-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:59:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-12-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-12-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 12 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.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/05\/victory-location-pri\">Victory For Location Privacy in New York GPS Tracking Case: jennifer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/N47E9cGXwcE\/the-presidents-2010-budge_b_202411.html\">David Beckmann: The President&#8217;s 2010 Budget: A Transition to New Priorities: David Beckmann<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/QZ__mhzKyOU\/cheney-whacks-efca-labor_n_202611.html\">Cheney Whacks EFCA, Labor Welcomes Him As Spokesman: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/05\/hiding-behind-partisanship.html\">Hiding Behind Partisanship: Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/xK6KJJJWTNc\/jesse-ventura-coleman-a-h_n_202629.html\">Jesse Ventura: Coleman A &#8220;Hypocrite,&#8221; Offers To Waterboard Cheney (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/12\/house-gop-created-layoffs\/\">House Republicans: Look How Many Layoffs We Helped Create: Ryan Powers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=28103\">R.I.P. Comic Book Stores<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;ll be sad, but &#8230; yeah, it&#8217;s pretty clearly coming for most places.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/bBovR6uO3eM\/walking-dead-compend.html\">Walking Dead Compendium One<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve been collecting this in the smaller 6-issue trades, and it&#8217;s an excellent, excellent book &#8212; focusing on what it means to be human, with zombies as an ironic background.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/chicagotribune\/theswamp\/~3\/GA3UdY-l0Cw\/medicare_fund_dry_in_8_years_t.html\">Medicare fund dry in 8 years: Trustees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/13\/us\/politics\/12web-nagourney.html\">On Politics: G.O.P. Worries About Sounding a Negative Tone<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Terror! Socialism! Abortion! Crime! Drugs! Immigrants! Gays! Fascism! 9\/11! No! Not! Never!&#8221; Gee, can&#8217;t imagine why they come across as negative.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/may\/12\/psychic-claims-james-randi-paranormal\">Scientists put psychic&#8217;s paranormal claims to the test | Science | guardian.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; Science is keen! (via Les)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notalwaysright.com\/be-prepared-for-some-womanly-advice\/1938\">Be Prepared\u2026 For Some Womanly Advice<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/12\/hannity-terrorist-compare\/\">Fox Condemns Sykes\u2019s Act: If A Talk Radio Host Compared Obama To A Terrorist, He Would Be Fired<\/a> &#8211; I disagree heartily with wishing someone would die of kidney failure. That said, Morris and Hannity are hypocritical asses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/americas\/8046676.stm\">US elected to UN rights council<\/a> &#8211; The UNHRC has its own problems, but better to be there and engaged than to leave in a snit. Elections matter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5250224\/the-same-cityscape-according-to-star-trek-and-terminator-salvation\">The Same Cityscape According To Star Trek And Terminator Salvation [Urban Futurism]<\/a> &#8211; Very, very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/11\/the-union-of-church-and-state-hurts-both\/\">The Union of Church and State Hurts Both<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not likely to invest an hour in this (too many videos, too little time), especially since I agree wholeheartedly with the proposition. History shows us conclusively that when church and state are mingle, or the state does the church&#8217;s work and the church does the state&#8217;s work, both institutions suffer. One of the geniuses of our Constitution is that we&#8217;ve significantly (compared to Europe) avoided that, hence the relative health and robustness of religion in the US vs, say, England.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/12\/problems-with-the-year-of-the-bible-resolution\/\">Problems with the Year of the Bible Resolution<\/a> &#8211; Does the Bible actually need a commemorative year for it? Will it make the faithful love and adhere to it any better, or those who disbelieve suddenly come to change their mind? Of course not &#8212; it&#8217;s politics, triumphalism, and rudeness, all in a tawdry little package.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/12\/atheist-teacher-vs-christian-student\/\">Atheist Teacher vs. Christian Student<\/a> &#8211; I concur with (and am impressed by) Mehta here &#8212; a shame, because the kid and his parents are pretty poor actors in the piece as well. But being a teacher, especially in a public school context, is more than being &#8220;provocative&#8221; or &#8220;speaking the truth&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s about encouraging learning. Corbett&#8217;s comments, true or not, were not appropriate to that goal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/janet-porter-plays-victim-literally\">Janet Porter Plays the Victim, Literally<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Special rights for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/05\/11\/openoffice-31-is-available\/\">OpenOffice 3.1 is available<\/a> &#8211; Making a note to update the machines (Katherine, Jim &amp; Ginger) have have this.<\/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;. Victory For Location Privacy in New York GPS Tracking Case: jennifer David Beckmann: The President&#8217;s 2010 Budget: A Transition to New Priorities: David Beckmann Cheney Whacks EFCA, Labor Welcomes Him As Spokesman: The Huffington Post News Team Hiding Behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-12-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 12 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[109,11,77,12,10,17,47,9,358,16,132,27,46,6,360,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-state","category-media-comics","category-economy","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-my-computer","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-privacy","category-religion","category-school-daze","category-science","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14874,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-29-may-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":14780,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 29 May 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-May-09 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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