{"id":15537,"date":"2009-08-08T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-08-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-08-08T20:29:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T02:29:30","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-08-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-08-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 08 August 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.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/06\/AR2009080603854_pf.htmlhttp:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">Steven Pearlstein &#8211; Steven Pearlstein: Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Poisoning the well&#8221; indeed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/hes-con-but-we-likes-him.htmlhttp:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/\">En Tequila Es Verdad: He&#8217;s a Con, but We Likes Him<\/a> &#8211; A Republican willing to diss Glenn Beck and hope for an optimstic future that actually includes a federal government?\u00a0 Inconceivable!\u00a0 And, hopeful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/oneutah\/Gkug\/~3\/Rlfw3_Xf5cU\/http:\/\/oneutah.org\">In his EVIL lair of satanic EVILness<\/a> &#8211; MWAH-HA-HA!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/aQrtUkZ_fA4\/dumbass_quote_of_the_day_46.phphttp:\/\/www.scienceblogs.com\">Dumbass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/5BHwxz8tHwc\/a_little_taste_of_the_strangen.phphttp:\/\/www.scienceblogs.com\">A little taste of the strangeness [Pharyngula]<\/a> &#8211; If the truth offends the, pluck it out.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that how the saying goes?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=48696http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\">2009 Hugo Best Novel Nominee Spotlight: Saturn\u2019s Children, by Charles Stross<\/a> &#8211; I have a review pending for this book, I believe, but I overall enjoyed it.<\/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;. Steven Pearlstein &#8211; Steven Pearlstein: Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform &#8211; &#8220;Poisoning the well&#8221; indeed. En Tequila Es Verdad: He&#8217;s a Con, but We Likes Him &#8211; A Republican willing to diss Glenn Beck and hope &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/08\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-08-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 08 August 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-15537","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":11753,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/08\/two_taste_treats_that_tas.html","url_meta":{"origin":15537,"position":0},"title":"Two taste treats that taste great together","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Feb-08 5:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Steven Brust. 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