{"id":15143,"date":"2009-07-07T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-07-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:57:29","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-07-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-07-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 07 July 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:\/\/grammatically.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/michael-jacksons-curious-coffin.html\">Michael Jackson&#8217;s Curious Coffin: Martha Brockenbrough<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/ont2eAKqit8\/the-future-of-democrats-i_b_227226.html\">Mike Lux: The Future of Democrats in Texas: Mike Lux<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/D8GkzyHiQuM\/michael-jackson-to-b-1.html\">Michael Jackson to be buried brainless, coroners say it must &#8220;harden&#8221; so tests can be completed.: Xeni Jardin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/rYxIyYGpkvY\/trying-to-fix-the-broken_b_226736.html\">Garrett Johnson: Trying to Fix the Broken 401(k) System: Garrett Johnson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/not_calculus_statistics\/\">Not calculus; statistics!<\/a> &#8211; I may be prejudiced by having a statistician as a wife, but I think the world would be much better if people knew how to intelligently use and understand statistics.  So much of our reality (what we&#8217;re told) is based on it, but people don&#8217;t know what questions to ask (or that they should ask them).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/tiller-dead-operation-rescue-turns-its-attention-carhart\">With Tiller Dead, Operation Rescue Turns Its Attention to Carhart: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/bad-worse-texas\">From Bad to Worse In Texas<\/a> &#8211; Just who you want chairing your State Board of Education: &#8216;In fact, she wrote in her book that sending our children to public schools is \u201cthrowing them into the enemy\u2019s flames even as the children of Israel threw their children to Moloch.\u201d&#8217; Altogether ooky!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/think-that-black-people-are-loud.html\">think that black people are &#8220;loud&#8221;: macon d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/crawler\/2009\/07\/06\/the-effects-of-parental-imprisonment\/\">the effects of parental imprisonment<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the Right will completely ignore any thought to &#8220;Think of the Children!&#8221; here.  They&#8217;re far too busy trying to ban gay adoptions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OfficialGmailBlog\/~3\/MO0c75PrKHM\/gmail-leaves-beta-launches-back-to-beta.html\">Gmail leaves beta, launches &#8220;Back to Beta&#8221; Labs feature<\/a> &#8211; Woot!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/AYUQ87YrQeI\/video-toyota-employees-taped-stealing-from-watching-porn-in-customers-truck\">VIDEO: Toyota Employees Taped Stealing From, Watching Porn In Customer&#8217;s  Truck [Caught In The Act]<\/a> &#8211; Crikey!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallifecomics.com\/archive\/090612.html\">Real Life Comics &#8211; strip for June \/ 12 \/ 2009<\/a> &#8211; Who needs to buy those expensive books when &#8230;?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/inscrutable-sarah-palin\">The Inscrutable Sarah Palin<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;She&#8217;ll be back &#8230;&#8221; (he said in a thick, Austrian accent)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/kraft_foods_rearranging_the_pu.php\">Kraft Foods, Rearranging the Puzzle<\/a> &#8211; Crikey, &#8220;shuffling deck chairs&#8221; indeed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boulderdude.com\/2009\/07\/reviewage\/\">Reviewage<\/a> &#8211; Stan finally wraps up his &#8220;Avatar: The Last Airbender&#8221; viewing and reviewing.  Good thoughts (though my demurrers are in the comments).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/world\/1653264,CST-NWS-englandgays06.article\">Church of England bishop: Gays should &#8216;repent&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; No.  They shouldn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/concerned-women-america-confused-sanford\">Concerned Women for America, Confused on Sanford<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Christians aren&#8217;t perfect, just forgiven&#8221; is a motto as pernicious as any I&#8217;ve ever heard, and usually used as a Get Out of Jail Free card here and now (regardless of how it will work Then).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awdsgn.com\/dailyjournal\/jul09\/html\/dailypg_070309.htm\">Why argue with success? &#8211; July 3, 2009<\/a> &#8211; Clueless? Cynical? Evil?  Certainly, ahem, not nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/07\/nice-news.html\">Nice news<\/a> &#8211; Niceness is very important.  But all by itself it&#8217;s a social thing, not a moral thing.  People can be immoral, injust, even horrible, and yet still be &#8220;nice.&#8221;  &#8220;He was such a nice young man&#8221; is the epithet of too many monsters.<\/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;. Michael Jackson&#8217;s Curious Coffin: Martha Brockenbrough Mike Lux: The Future of Democrats in Texas: Mike Lux Michael Jackson to be buried brainless, coroners say it must &#8220;harden&#8221; so tests can be completed.: Xeni Jardin Garrett Johnson: Trying to Fix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-07-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 07 July 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[529,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatarairbenderkorra","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26629,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/fiat-lux-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":15143,"position":0},"title":"Fiat Lux!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Feb-12 11:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"It bugs the heck out of me when I can't find the \"incandescent wattage equivalent\" on non-incandescent bulbs. 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