{"id":15434,"date":"2009-07-27T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-27-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-07-27T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:00:58","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-27-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-27-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 27 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:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=46349\">Fantasy and the Numinous<\/a> &#8211; There are some good frames here for Fantasy vs Sci Fi.  Something to ponder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/7kwG1kzR6L0\/sotomayor-the-vulcan-standard-pt-i\">Sotomayor &amp; The Vulcan Standard, Pt. I<\/a> &#8211; Long and rambling, but with some good points to make, IMO, about emotion, normalcy, and racism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/07\/ny-transit-and-traffic-status-on-twitter\">NY transit and traffic status on Twitter<\/a> &#8211; Remarkably clever.  I&#8217;d love to see something like this done by all rapid transit districts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/failblog\/~3\/nER9P4ksEuA\/\">Pogo Stick Fail<\/a> &#8211; Let&#8217;s hope there are some children eventually to pass this lesson down to &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/27\/gross-repeal\/\">Momentum Builds For New Civil Rights Act, But Will Congress Be Aggressive Enough?: Ian M.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/27\/ice-immigration-raid\/\">Homeland Security Official Sues Employer For Accidentally Raiding His Home: anill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/27\/bachmann-hawaii-resolution-obama\/\">Bachmann blocks resolution declaring Hawaii to be Obama\u2019s birthplace.: Ben Armbruster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/07\/meet_the_new_boss_financial_ba.php\">Meet the New Boss: Financial Bailout Edition : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; Another transparency disappointment from the Obama Administration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk\/archives\/003921.html\">Canterbury reflects  on General Convention<\/a> &#8211; Which communique essentially says, &#8220;Jolly glad you still want to be in the Communion, but we can&#8217;t do anything about those gay folk until the Communion all agrees, which they clearly don&#8217;t, so can&#8217;t see how we can have open partnered gays doing priest and bishop stuff since they&#8217;re not actually married, even though we think prejudice against gays is ruddy awful.&#8221;  Or something like that.  A nice response guaranteed to make both sides ticked off.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/24\/limbaughs-obama-is-black\/\">Limbaugh: Obama has a \u2018chip on his shoulder\u2019 because he\u2019s \u2018black.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; And Limbaugh knows all about anger and chips on the shoulder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/27\/inhofe-birthers-point\/\">Inhofe: The birthers \u2018have a point,\u2019 \u2018I don\u2019t discourage it.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Another example of why this won&#8217;t go away, because the GOP pols are willing to offer their (weasel-worded) support of it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/27\/lackawanna-mayor\/\">Lackawanna Mayor on Cheney\u2019s call to deploy troops to his city: \u2018I wouldn\u2019t expect anything less\u2019 of him.: Faiz Shakir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/27\/gibbs-birther\/\">Gibbs: Birther conspiracy theory is \u2018made-up, fictional nonsense.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not a matter of $15 for a web address.  It keeps coming up because (a) the media keep covering it (&#8220;Controversy sells!&#8221;) and (b) the GOP keeps nudge-nudge supporting it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/07\/since-primary-challenge-specter-voting.html\">Since Primary Challenge, Specter Voting with Dems 97% of the Time<\/a> &#8211; Doesn&#8217;t seem like a candidate for a volume of &#8220;Profiles in Courage,&#8221; does he?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ThereIFixedIt\/~3\/pqiR1wL7_8I\/\">Just Changing The Bulb<\/a> &#8211; Zip Ties &#8212; they&#8217;re the new Duct Tape!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unnecessaryquotes.com\/2009\/07\/days-and-days-care.html\">days and days care?<\/a> &#8211; There are some, perhaps, who might call it &#8220;Daycare&#8221; &#8230; and others, who perhaps, would call it something else &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/LeZRhgsPXjc\/\">Gates 911 Call Released<\/a> &#8211; Actually, late in the call she says (in being asked for a description) that one of the men looked perhaps &#8220;Hispanic&#8221; and that she couldn&#8217;t really tell with the other.  But it&#8217;s not a &#8220;OMG A BLACK MAN IS BREAKING INTO THE HOUSE DOWN THE STREET!&#8221; kind of call at all.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/hate-crimes-legislation-jewish-plot-world-domination\">Hate Crimes Legislation is a Jewish Plot for World Domination<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/cdBL8gIYlsk\/idaho-police-officer-sexually-assaults-suspect-with-taser-gets-off-with-disciplinary-action\">Idaho police officer sexually assaults suspect with Taser, gets off with  disciplinary action<\/a> &#8211; If it&#8217;s OK for the Federal government to do it&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/blue-marble\/2009\/07\/What-My-Marriage-Counselor-Knew\">What My Marriage Counselor Asked | Mother Jones<\/a> &#8211; Unfortunately, we can&#8217;t just walk away from the Climate Change Doubters.  We still have to live with them, because they still have too many votes and too much money and too much political power. Waving our hands and saying, &#8220;Let&#8217;s just vote them out of office&#8221; doesn&#8217;t solve the problem.  We have to convince &#8212; through debate and dialog &#8212; the people who are continuing to vote them <b>into<\/b> office that the science is real and conclusive, and that this trumps other concerns that might influence their vote.<\/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;. Fantasy and the Numinous &#8211; There are some good frames here for Fantasy vs Sci Fi. Something to ponder. Sotomayor &amp; The Vulcan Standard, Pt. I &#8211; Long and rambling, but with some good points to make, IMO, about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-27-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 27 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_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-15434","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":1033,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/23\/sic_transit_aut.html","url_meta":{"origin":15434,"position":0},"title":"Sic transit Authority","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Oct-01 6:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"Sic transit Authority DC has announced in its 10\/15 newsletter a continued grinding-to-a-halt of The Authority, largely because of the events of 9-11. 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