{"id":15457,"date":"2009-07-29T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-29-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T06:41:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T13:41:07","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-29-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-29-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 29 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.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/michelle-malkin-mocks-idea-broadening-gop-diversitys-sake\">Michelle Malkin Mocks the Idea of Broadening the GOP for Diversity&#8217;s Sake<\/a> &#8211; Go, Michelle, go!  Marginalize the GOP even further!  Woot!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/07\/a-good-offense-is-the-best-defense.html\">A Good Offense Is The Best Defense: publius<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/07\/id-rather-be-famous-than-righteous-or-holy.html\">I&#8217;d Rather be Famous than Righteous or Holy<\/a> &#8211; What?  You mean you can actually govern through some other mechanism that fear?  Wow &#8212; who&#8217;da thunk?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/straightnotnarrow.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/prioritizing-religious-resources.html\">Prioritizing Religious Resources: Jim  and Brenda Johnson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news168027773.html\">Out on a limb: Arm-swinging riddle is answered<\/a> &#8211; I had no idea it was a riddle &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/cynical-c\/nxDH\/~3\/0txEAPqkj-U\/\">Things I Learn From My Patients<\/a> &#8211; Words to live by. Really.  I mean, please, please, please don&#8217;t try these at home.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/169276\/Windows_7_RTM_Cracked_Fully_Validated_Already.html?tk=rss\">Windows 7 Ultimate RTM Cracked, Fully Validated (Already?) &#8211; PC World<\/a> &#8211; Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mrparallel.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/29\/but-other-than-that-how-was-the-service-pt-ii\/\">But other than that, how was the service? pt. II<\/a> &#8211; Wow, it&#8217;s like a Consumerist story from the 19th Century &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.lungfish.com\/~r\/badgods\/~3\/AlUGfu8gFyQ\/lightbehavior.html\">Light<\/a> &#8211; When you have lemons &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~3\/zQWx3VcxjKU\/gloves-pikachu-doesnt-wear-gloves\">Gloves?! Pikachu Doesn&#8217;t Wear Gloves! [Screengrab]<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;&#8230; I choose YOU!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/songsmith\">Songsmith<\/a> &#8211; Flagged for playing around with at home &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/jalopnik\/full\/~3\/kP1qr49aeq4\/shocking-video-manhattan-bridge-twisting-and-turning\">Shocking Video! Manhattan Bridge Twisting And Turning [Infrastructure]<\/a> &#8211; Hey, can we add  a &#8220;Practical Engineering&#8221; course to the curriculum at school?  I mean, people should know about this kind of thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=48943\">Reading Matter: What Tor.com posters recommended for a 13-yo girl<\/a> &#8211; Some cool ideas here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=48922\">My First Comic-Con<\/a> &#8211; Looking forward to attending next year.  (I love the mass Doctor picture; wish there was a blow-up shot.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/07\/29\/atheist-charity-food-for-banned-books\/\">Atheist Charity: Food for Banned Books<\/a> &#8211; Hmmm.  I might drop by!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/daily\/anglican_communion\/a_few_months_ago_one.php\">We pray together. And that&#8217;s enough<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Our struggles are not a &#8216;bug&#8217; &#8211; they\u2019re a &#8216;feature'&#8221; &#8211; This is a huge reason I love the Episcopal Church: because for all we loudly debate over theology, at our best we realize that&#8217;s a side conversation.  We&#8217;re less concerned with creedal orthodoxy than with relationship and community around the communion table.  Which is why pressures from some to abandon the latter in favor of the former are, paradoxically, tearing us apart.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheDisneyBlog\/~3\/pOV7KaL0aqs\/\">Are Pet Stores seeing a 101 Dalmatian Effect after G-Force?<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s disheartening to think that people are so shallow, unconsidering, and flighty that they&#8217;d just give in to a kid&#8217;s request for a pet because the movie was so much fun, like buying a plush toy.  Alas, almost certainly likely to be a problem.  I doubt there will be a lot of returns, though; GPs are fragile enough (and disposable enough) that the outcomes will be hidden.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonlabs.com\/comics\/index.php?date=2009-07-29&amp;show=sinfest\">2009-07-29: Sinfest: by me<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/07\/future-book-banning\">The Future of Book Banning?<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s a really good point.  Works that exist only electronically (with DRM) are far too easy to simply be lost, through malice, censorship, mistake, or disinterest.  Just as a lot of personal correspondence is lost over time in electronic mail, so a lot of books in the &#8220;paperless future&#8221; will be lost.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/29\/kyl-insurance-honest\/\">Kyl: Health insurance companies \u2018don\u2019t need to be kept honest.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Yes.  Yes they do.  Because otherwise they won&#8217;t be.<\/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;. Michelle Malkin Mocks the Idea of Broadening the GOP for Diversity&#8217;s Sake &#8211; Go, Michelle, go! Marginalize the GOP even further! Woot! A Good Offense Is The Best Defense: publius I&#8217;d Rather be Famous than Righteous or Holy &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-29-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 29 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25500,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/there-are-a-million-reasons-im-glad-michelle-bachmann-wont-be-our-next.html","url_meta":{"origin":15457,"position":0},"title":"There are a million reasons I&#39;m glad Michelle Bachmann won&#39;t be our next&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jan-12 5:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a million reasons I'm glad Michelle Bachmann won't be our next president, but this isn't one of themThank you, Rick Santorum and your looooovely Iowa \"coalitions director\" for adding theocratic misogyny into the poisonous brew of the GOP race this year -- though apparently it was found quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27337,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/dear-wisconsin-gop-you-suck.html","url_meta":{"origin":15457,"position":1},"title":"Dear Wisconsin GOP: You Suck","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Apr-12 5:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is not a terribly rational way of addressing the lunacy of this particular measure, but is about as succinct a personal reaction as I can think of.Especially when you read the blatherings of Gary Grothman, the Republican state senator who was a major leader in the fight to real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23766,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-gop-war-on-nutrition-continues.html","url_meta":{"origin":15457,"position":2},"title":"The GOP War on Nutrition Continues","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 10:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Every time Michelle Obama opens her mouth to suggest that, y'know, maybe feeding kids junk food every day isn't good for them, the Right immediately screams out that she's some sort of Nutrition Nazi, out to rob kids of their God-endowed Freedom Fries. 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On the other hand, it looks like we won't have any (known) SS war re-enactors in Congress this year, nor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2010&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2010","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2010"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/vote.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14662,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-30-april-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":15457,"position":5},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 30 April 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Apr-09 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... Steele: Moderates Are Welcome In The GOP As Long As They Vote Like Right Wingers: Ryan Powers Rep. 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