{"id":14874,"date":"2009-05-29T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-29-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T23:00:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:00:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-29-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-29-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 29 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:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/lpjOhjpPUG4\/petraeus-says-us-violated_b_209215.html\">Jon Soltz: Petraeus Says U.S. Violated Geneva Conventions &#8211; What Will Cheney and Rush Say?: Jon Soltz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/pcMvhItNgUg\/dem-lawmakers-ask-fed-to_n_209066.html\">Dem Lawmakers Ask Fed To Curb Overdraft Abuses: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/GgPLn7BfxF4\/cheneys-tattered-torture_b_209146.html\">Mary Liz Thomson: Cheney&#8217;s Tattered Torture Threads: Mary Liz Thomson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/05\/torture-and-specific-intent.html\">Torture And &#8220;Specific Intent&#8221;: Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/political-media\/poll-sizable-majority-says-cheneys-opinions-are-not-important\/\">Poll: Sizable Majority Says Cheney\u2019s Opinions Are Not Important: Greg Sargent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/29\/oreilly-defends-blog-attack\/\">O\u2019Reilly Defends Cherry-Picking Comments To Attack Blogs: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/THGNcxHIRFM\/liddy-lets-hope-sotomayor-who-speaks-illegal-alien-isnt-menstruating-at-conferences.php\">Liddy: Let&#8217;s Hope Sotomayor&#8211;Who Speaks &#8216;Illegal Alien&#8217;&#8211;Isn&#8217;t &#8216;Menstruating&#8217; At Conferences: Brian Beutler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedphysics.typepad.com\/cocktail_party_physics\/2009\/05\/get-the-lead-out.html\">get the lead out: Lee Kottner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/NL2eGR1jRPY\/usa-canada-and-the-e.html\">USA, Canada and the EU attempt to kill treaty to protect blind people&#8217;s access to written material: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/n1jdZ5Prxd4\/senator-ben-nelson-is-ang_b_208935.html\">Lawrence Lessig: Senator Ben Nelson is angry (second in a series): Lawrence Lessig<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/~r\/wiredgeekdad\/~3\/XxrRPAvnCW8\/\">D&amp;D Core Book Sequels Hold Awesome Stuff, Not Leftovers: John Baichtal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/torture\/levin-cia-torture-documents-cheney-wants-dont-prove-squat\/\">Levin: CIA Torture Documents Cheney Wants Don\u2019t Prove Squat: Greg Sargent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/~r\/wiredgeekdad\/~3\/chTnK9jkZVg\/\">Five Things I Learned from Richard Feynman About Science Education: Kathy Ceceri<\/a><\/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;. Jon Soltz: Petraeus Says U.S. Violated Geneva Conventions &#8211; What Will Cheney and Rush Say?: Jon Soltz Dem Lawmakers Ask Fed To Curb Overdraft Abuses: The Huffington Post News Team Mary Liz Thomson: Cheney&#8217;s Tattered Torture Threads: Mary Liz &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-29-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 29 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":[35,22,10,17,79,358,16,6,360,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-gaming","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-media-intellectual-property","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-science","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29068,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/get-out-the-vote-or-get-rid-of-the-vote.html","url_meta":{"origin":14874,"position":0},"title":"Get out the vote? 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