{"id":15090,"date":"2009-06-26T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-26-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-06-26T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T00:01:18","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-26-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-26-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 26 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\/boingboing\/ibag\/~3\/zkDhDsn7ZB0\/aclu-sues-tsa-for-il.html\">ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in  cash<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Remember: if we think it looks like a crime, it&#8217;s up to you to prove it&#8217;s not!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/ibag\/~3\/DvuZzWxQHdM\/supreme-court-declar.html\">Supreme Court declares strip search of 13-year-old student unconstitutional<\/a> &#8211; Notably, C. Thomas was the lone dissent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/fOTKjDjXKsQ\/revenge-of-the-fallen-is-messy-unfunny-and-way-too-long.ars\">Revenge of the Fallen is messy, unfunny, and way too long<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  This sums up pretty much every review &#8212; low- and hi-brow &#8212; I&#8217;ve read about this mess.  Classic sequelitis: take only the successful stuff from the first film, string it out to feature length, crank it up to 11, and indulge in the stuff that someone sane told you to not do the first time but you don&#8217;t have to listen to them now because you have a hit on your hands.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nodwick.humor.gamespy.com\/ffn\/index.php\">Jury Duty<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m a big believer in jury duty, but, that said &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/last-time-stop-lying-about-hate-crimes-legislation\">For The Last Time, Stop Lying About Hate Crimes Legislation<\/a> &#8211; Not that I expect &#8220;reality&#8221; to interfere with &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/06\/25\/try-this-with-your-email-signatures-2\/\">Try This with Your Email Signatures<\/a> &#8211; Yeah &#8230; if I were interested in thumbing my nose at folks who are so overtly prideful about their Christian orthodoxy, it would be an amusing strategy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2009\/06\/sex_scandal_flow_chart.php\">Sex Scandal Flow Chart | TPM News Pages<\/a> &#8211; Grabbed from @bdoserror<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/24-7\/1637641,blogger-charged-threats-judge-chicago-062409.article\">N.J. blogger charged with threats against Chicago judges :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime<\/a> &#8211; Yeesh.<\/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;. ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash &#8211; &#8220;Remember: if we think it looks like a crime, it&#8217;s up to you to prove it&#8217;s not!&#8221; Supreme Court declares strip search of 13-year-old student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-26-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 26 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-15090","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":1917,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/09\/i_know_this_get.html","url_meta":{"origin":15090,"position":0},"title":"I know this gets tiresome, but &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Apr-02 1:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... read today's Bleat. 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