{"id":14940,"date":"2009-06-02T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-06-02T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T00:00:23","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 02 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:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/06\/china-erasing-history\">China&#8217;s success at erasing history: jason@kottke.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/5q1ylDu7Qro\/leahy-sotomayor-hearings-will-come-earlier-if-racially-charged-smears-continue.php\">Leahy: Sotomayor Hearings Will Come Earlier If Racially Charged Smears Continue: Brian Beutler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/FHXqFmroLTI\/yemeni-gitmo-detainee-all_n_210489.html\">Yemeni Gitmo Detainee Allegedly Dies Of Suicide: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/06\/02\/district-court-rules-on-a-graduation-speech-about-jesus\/\">District Court Rules on a Graduation Speech About Jesus: Hemant Mehta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eco-comics.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/superhero-decadence-headquarters.html\">Superhero Decadence: The Headquarters<\/a> &#8211; The JL Watchtower did have a few strategic reasons for being on the moon rather than previous JL HQs (an orbiting satellite for most of their existence, which was an upgrade from a cave).  But the biggest problem with a superhero HQ\/lair is that drama <b>demands<\/b> it be attacked frequently, if not regularly demolished.  (The same fate befalls relatives, too.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/drake-tillers-murder-answer-prayer\">Drake: Tiller&#8217;s Murder &#8220;An Answer to Prayer&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  And people wonder why Christians are seen as &#8220;the bad guys.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/EmRKql6Dyek\/woman-sprayed-with-pesticide-cant-get-list-of-chemicals-because-theyre-a-trade-secret\">Woman Sprayed With Pesticide Can&#8217;t Get List Of Chemicals Because They&#8217;re A  Trade Secret [Trade Secrets]<\/a> &#8211; If this were a workplace in most states, they would at least have to have posted hazardous materials data sheets.  Apparently if you&#8217;re just a civvie caught in the cross-fire, you&#8217;re (literally) hosed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/ellen-snortland-and-gavin-de-becker\/rites-of-spring_b_210154.html\">Ellen Snortland and Gavin de Becker: Rites of Spring<\/a> &#8211; One reason we have Katherine in karate &#8212; but she could use a good &#8220;down and dirty&#8221; self-defense course, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/VPRZMqHA9ck\/lifehacker-pack-2009-our-list-of-essential-free-windows-downloads\">Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Windows Downloads  [Downloads]<\/a> &#8211; I either use these or know good things about them.  Recommended.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/30\/obama-denies-uighurs-release\/\">Obama Administration Files Petition To Block Uighurs From Entering U.S.,  Praises Gitmo Conditions<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;You break &#8217;em, you buy &#8217;em&#8221; has an analogy here:  &#8220;You detain &#8217;em unjustifiably, you give &#8217;em a home.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/01\/david-duke-limbaugh\/\">Former Klansman David Duke Rips Limbaugh For \u2018KKK\u2019 Comparison, Says  Sotomayor Is The Racist<\/a> &#8211; I do enjoy watching the fringe Right get worked up in a lather at each other.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/manuel-miranda-makes-republican-enemies\">Manuel Miranda Makes Republican Enemies: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Hxbnqi5gz_I\/zombie-haiku-contest-1.html\">Zombie haiku contest winner!<\/a> &#8211; Nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/EOi1oAe9DlU\/daikichi-amano-photo.html\">Obama Supports New Law to Suppress Detainee Torture Photos<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;What kind of a country passes a law that has no purpose other than to empower its leader to suppress evidence of the torture it inflicted on people?&#8221;  I understand the reasoning.  It&#8217;s still wrong.  Secrecy corrupts.  And the longer it&#8217;s kept hidden, the worse it will be.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/_TprXH89tJQ\/what-plagiarism-look.html\">What plagiarism looks like<\/a> &#8211; Yup.  Sure looks like it to me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/whipping_a_classic_miracle.php\">Whipping a Classic Miracle<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t care for Miracle Whip (or Mayo, either &#8212; greasy white food lubricants aren&#8217;t my cuppa), but the new branding is quite nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/primary_school_gay_curriculum\/\">[Guest Post by leguru] Primary School Gay Curriculum<\/a> &#8211; So &#8220;teaching people not to bully others over stereotypes&#8221; is seen as &#8220;promoting homosexuality.&#8221;  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/wondermark\/~3\/A7vUHwdLd9w\/\">#523; In which Vince achieves Victory<\/a> &#8211; VICTORY!  Yeah, I yell that sometimes. \ud83d\ude42<\/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;. China&#8217;s success at erasing history: jason@kottke.org Leahy: Sotomayor Hearings Will Come Earlier If Racially Charged Smears Continue: Brian Beutler Yemeni Gitmo Detainee Allegedly Dies Of Suicide: The Huffington Post News Team District Court Rules on a Graduation Speech About &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-02-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 02 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-14940","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\/14940","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=14940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}