{"id":15082,"date":"2009-06-24T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-24-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-06-24T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T00:00:22","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-24-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-24-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 24 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.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/so-long-sanford-we-hardly-knew-ya\">So Long Sanford, We Hardly Knew Ya<\/a> &#8211; Love the way Sanford&#8217;s been quickly cut loose from the Values Voters Summit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2009\/06\/not-from-the-onion.html\">Not from the Onion: Teacher Rubber Rooms<\/a> &#8211; So the districts (and the article, implicitly) blame unreasonable union rules &#8230; which, when examined, say you can&#8217;t just willy-nilly fire someone or cut off their pay for an unsubstantiated allegation, but need to go through a disciplinary hearing.  I think that&#8217;s called &#8220;due process&#8221; in criminal proceedings.  If it&#8217;s taking months-to-year to hold those hearings, that&#8217;s hardly the fault of the accused teachers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/parentingbeyondbelief.com\/blog\/?p=2410\">So crazy\u2026it just might work<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/06\/video_proves_police_lies_again.php\">Video Proves Police Lies. Again. : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; Criminals who willfully break the law and hurt innocents need to be quickly and sternly punished.  When the police are the accused, the same standard applies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/dispatches\/~3\/2iBIrxu9v_4\/nah_ten_commandments_monuments.php\">Nah, Ten Commandments Monuments Aren&#8217;t About Religion<\/a> &#8211; People without a clue &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/qz077rDS8hg\/amazon-tries-to-clarify-download-limits-for-kindle-books-doesnt-quite-succeed\">Amazon Tries To Clarify Download Limits For Kindle Books, Doesn&#8217;t Quite  Succeed [Drm]<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure some folks would gripe to see the suggested policy change implemented &#8230; but only because it&#8217;s telling an unpleasant truth.  That would be more than compensated by the relief of FUD that Amazon would provide nervous users.  In the long run, the truth works.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/lykVz364n7E\/southwest-suddenly-decides-frequent-flyer-is-too-big-to-fly\">Southwest Suddenly Decides Frequent Flyer Is Too Big To Fly [Southwest  Airlines]<\/a> &#8211; Wow. Amazing customer service FAIL here by Southwest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/lPfS0AGSLRI\/meet-the-virtual-atm-skimmers\">Meet The Virtual ATM Skimmers [Malware]<\/a> &#8211; Oh, that&#8217;s just swell.  Thank you to all the idiots who thought Windows would make a great OS for ATMs (and that they wouldn&#8217;t have to patch \/ innoculate \/ scan the machines on a regular basis to keep them safe).  Brilliant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/the-neocon-war-on-roger-cohen.html\">The Neocon War On Roger Cohen: Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/06\/torture-at-bagram.html\">Torture At Bagram: Andrew Sullivan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/24\/sanford-affair\/\">Will Republicans \u2018Ask Questions\u2019 Of Sanford, Rather Than \u2018Circle The Wagons For One Of Our Tribe\u2019?: Think Progress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/06\/just-as-the-drinks-arrive-just-as-they-play-your-favorite-song.html\">Just as the Drinks Arrive, Just as they Play Your Favorite Song: Eric Martin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/ibag\/~3\/qwd6ND2TvJ8\/fathers-day-photo-sh.html\">Father&#8217;s day photo-shoot ends with cops pointing guns, photographer face  down on tarmac<\/a> &#8211; And, of course, he&#8217;ll now be checked by security every time he tries to fly for the rest of his life.  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/06\/23\/vizio-to-launch-the-most-internet-connected-hdtvs-later-this-year\/\">Vizio releasing Twitter-, Flickr-, Netflix-enabled TV<\/a> &#8211; I class this as 3-year technology &#8212; in 3 years it will either be irresistably widespread, or in 3 years it will be completely obsolete.  I can wait.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/SGJ1VNozHt8\/former-fda-head-says-food-manufacturers-use-sugar-salt-and-fat-to-short-circuit-the-brains-reward-system\">Former FDA Head Says Food Manufacturers Use Sugar, Salt, And Fat To Short  Circuit The Brain&#8217;s Reward System [Health]<\/a> &#8211; It sounds interesting.  On the other hand, it&#8217;s like saying, &#8220;How dare you make this food be really, really, really tasty?!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/gadgets\/~3\/ndKedRzKWlc\/transformers-2-have.html\">Transformers 2: &#8220;Have you ever fallen into a city-sized Cuisinart?&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Sounds like an excellent party DVD &#8230; for someone else to buy and bring over.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/22\/a-thought-experiment\/\">Antiwar.com Blog \u00b7 A Thought Experiment<\/a> &#8211; This really is a key argument, and an excellent analogy (read the whole article).  We lost our rhetorical rights to argue about regime change in Iran fifty years ago, and have done nothing since then to rebuild them.  And most Iranians are painfully aware of that.  The decrying of Obama as &#8220;timid&#8221; are coming from folks in this country who have their own poltical axes to grind, not from folks in Iran.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/ibag\/~3\/aDf0wwfJpGA\/the-pyramid-of-north.html\">The Pyramid of North Dakota: Dylan Thuras<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheistrev.com\/2009\/06\/if-you-dont-believe-in-afterlife-why-be.html\">&#8220;If You Don&#8217;t Believe in an Afterlife, Why Be Moral?&#8221;: vjack<\/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;. So Long Sanford, We Hardly Knew Ya &#8211; Love the way Sanford&#8217;s been quickly cut loose from the Values Voters Summit. Not from the Onion: Teacher Rubber Rooms &#8211; So the districts (and the article, implicitly) blame unreasonable union &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-24-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 24 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-15082","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":8331,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/constantine.html","url_meta":{"origin":15082,"position":0},"title":"Constantine","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Dec-05 7:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"The advantage of hotel broadband being cut off is feeling like it's okay to go ahead and watch a movie, since all other forms of entertainment are gone ... 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