{"id":14856,"date":"2009-05-23T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:13:05","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 23 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:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/Ww0yjy_GxXE\/gay-marriage-bill-passed-by-legislators-in-ymca-youth-government-program\">Gay Marriage Bill Passed by Legislators in YMCA Youth &amp; Government Program: Lurleen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/sfySBe3UHB4\/man-who-poisoned-children-in-campbells-soup-fraud-sentenced-to-100-years\">Man Who Poisoned Children In Campbell&#8217;s Soup Fraud Sentenced To 100 Years [Tampering]<\/a> &#8211; Scum.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/media\/news\/2009\/05\/how-googles-cute-doodles-became-satans-pawns.ars\">How Google&#8217;s cute &#8220;doodles&#8221; became Satan&#8217;s pawns &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s amazing how eager some folks are to take offense, intended or not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/SuTqy-HJLH0\/nine-affordable-steaks-and-how-to-grill-them-anywhere\">Nine Affordable Steaks and How to Grill Them Anywhere [Memorial Day]<\/a> &#8211; Mmmmm &#8230; more BBQy goodness!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/CHxdBxdaqxs\/top-10-skills-to-master-your-grill\">Top 10 Skills to Master Your Grill [Lifehacker Top 10]<\/a> &#8211; Good advice for all you BBQing this weekend, or this summer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/2009\/05\/21\/atheism-%e2%80%98is-the-greatest-of-all-evils%e2%80%99-says-outgoing-archbishop-of-westminster\/\">Atheism \u2018is the greatest of all evils\u2019, says outgoing Archbishop of Westminster<\/a> &#8211; I really wish I had access to these people so I could tell them, face-to-face, just how big of a fucking asshole they are.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evolvethink.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/23\/tolerance_and_reason-2\/\">Tolerance and reason<\/a> &#8211; An excellent analysis. Flagging for more commentary when I have time. (via George, not surprisingly)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/BCED\/\">Gadgets : Star Trek Starfleet Academy Titanium Spork<\/a> &#8211; Make it so!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/behind_blue_eyes\/2009\/05\/22\/obama_proposes_indefinite_preventive_detention_without_trial\">Obama proposes Indefinite Preventive Detention without trial &#8211; Behind Blue Eyes &#8211; Open Salon<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Indefinite preventive detention&#8221; is wrong. Not to mention dangerous.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/408728\/cocky-right-wing-radio-host-gets-waterboarded-goes-insane-in-six-seconds\">Cocky Right-Wing Radio Host Gets Waterboarded, Goes Insane In Six Seconds<\/a> &#8211; So when is Hannity going to man up about this? I have no hope that Limbaugh will ever have the integrity to give it a try.<\/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;. Gay Marriage Bill Passed by Legislators in YMCA Youth &amp; Government Program: Lurleen Man Who Poisoned Children In Campbell&#8217;s Soup Fraud Sentenced To 100 Years [Tampering] &#8211; Scum. How Google&#8217;s cute &#8220;doodles&#8221; became Satan&#8217;s pawns &#8211; Ars Technica &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-23-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 23 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":"","_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":[350,66,38,17,25,718,16,110,360,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-media-art","category-food-drink","category-homeland-security","category-gay-stuff","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri","category-religious-zanies","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51514,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/on-the-choosing-of-appropriate-terms-around-marriage-equality.html","url_meta":{"origin":14856,"position":0},"title":"On the choosing of appropriate terms around &quot;marriage equality&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jun-15 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not just a matter of so-called political correctness, but of conveying, accurately, what one means. As a cause, I prefer the term \"marriage equality,\" as that captures what is at the heart of the matter. When talking about the event, however, or the how to refer to the married\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":138881,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/25\/the-end-of-marriage-in-alabama-not-really.html","url_meta":{"origin":14856,"position":1},"title":"The End of Marriage in Alabama (not really)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-May-19 12:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dropping most state marriage paperwork is a good thing for sketchy reasons.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wedding-rings2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":51667,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/so-what-kind-of-traditional-marriage-does-gay-marriage-undermine.html","url_meta":{"origin":14856,"position":2},"title":"So what kind of &quot;traditional marriage&quot; does gay marriage undermine?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-Jul-15 6:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting consideration of part of what's behind the \"marriage equality threatens traditional marriage\" argument.'It\u2019s not because straight people won\u2019t want to get married if gays are doing it, too. 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