{"id":14930,"date":"2009-06-01T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-06-01T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T00:00:22","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 01 June 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\/thebookofblog\/~3\/ikaWlmkY_B4\/\">Cool Fonts: Graffiti Fonts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OfficialGoogleMobileBlog\/~3\/vrb7KELYzdo\/nearby-intersections-on-goog-411.html\">Nearby Intersections on GOOG-411<\/a> &#8211; This is one of those keen tricks I never remember to try when I actually need it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/supreme-court\/reagan-appointee-sandra-day-oconnor-said-gender-race-impact-judging\/\">Reagan Appointee Sandra Day O\u2019Connor Said Gender, Race Impact Judging<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, well, we all know what a left-wing crypto-socialist Reagan was.  I bet Rush and the rest wish he were around today so they could appropriately lambaste him and his identity-politics nominee.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/terry-declares-tiller-reaped-what-he-sowed-then-asks-if-someone-will-buy-him-lunch\">Terry Declares That Tiller &#8220;Reaped What He Sowed,&#8221; Then Asks If Someone Will  Buy Him Lunch<\/a> &#8211; Terry keeps skirting around blaming the victim in, you know, a legal way, but keeps blaming him in some sort of karmic, cosmic retribution way, but not, really, except so, really.  Dude, at least have the courage of your rhetorical convictions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dapper.net\">The New RPG<\/a> &#8211; I do very much want to play this game.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/wondermark\/~3\/LFRBS0RMFWs\/\">#520; In which it\u2019s Time to Act<\/a> &#8211; Booyah!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babynamewizard.com\/archives\/2009\/5\/checking-in-on-the-age-of-aidans\">The latest on the Age of Aidans<\/a> &#8211; Sounds like a good phoneme to avoid, unless you want your kid running after every other hollering parent at the playground.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/26\/frank-luntz-doesnt-matter\/\">Frank Luntz: It doesn\u2019t matter what Obama\u2019s health care plan says, we\u2019ll  still call it \u2018government takeover.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Mendacity? Say it ain&#8217;t so!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/29\/petraeus-values\/\">Petraeus Criticizes Gitmo And Torture: \u2018I Don\u2019t Think We Should Be Afraid To  Live Our Values\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m still waiting for the Right to decide that their lionized Gen. Petraeus is, in fact, a terrorist sympathizer because of things like this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/01\/gen-ricardo-sanchez-calls-for-war-crimes-truth-commission\/\">Gen. Ricardo Sanchez calls for war crimes truth commission.: Ali Frick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/_UrmJrKBeJw\/a_novel_creationist_argument.php\">A novel creationist argument<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t know about you, but I definitely remember Thomas Aquinas using the drool proof for God somewhere in his Summa Theologica &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/Ex-GsupEgFk\/another_edition_of_stupid_crea.php\">Another edition of stupid creationist questions<\/a> &#8211; Okay, now I understand the problem:  these guys don&#8217;t even understand how evolution works.  No wonder they&#8217;re so confused!  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/understanding-sotomayor%E2%80%99s-reversal-rate\">Understanding Sotomayor\u2019s Reversal Rate<\/a> &#8211; Nicely explained.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/adventures-in-it\/wikipedia-scientologists-edit-suckers-526?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-06-01\">Wikipedia to Scientologists: Edit this, suckers | Adventures in IT &#8211; InfoWorld<\/a> &#8211; Hrm.  I certainly understand why they did this, but it&#8217;s an awfully slippery slope.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/george-tiller-and-dhs-report\">George Tiller and the DHS Report: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/DvUKqt8QWJo\/report-america-getting-bbc-streaming-tv-thanks-to-google\">Report: America Getting BBC Streaming TV, Thanks to Google [VoD]<\/a> &#8211; Coolness.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/30\/advice-for-a-teenage-atheist-still-in-the-closet\/\">Advice for a Teenage Atheist Still in the Closet<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not quite sure what &#8220;hard-core Episcopalians&#8221; would be like, but I agree this is good advice.<\/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;. Cool Fonts: Graffiti Fonts Nearby Intersections on GOOG-411 &#8211; This is one of those keen tricks I never remember to try when I actually need it. Reagan Appointee Sandra Day O\u2019Connor Said Gender, Race Impact Judging &#8211; Yeah, well, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 01 June 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-14930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4548,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/08\/fonts.html","url_meta":{"origin":14930,"position":0},"title":"Fonts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Aug-03 9:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"I like fonts. 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