{"id":15609,"date":"2009-08-18T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-18-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-08-18T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T00:00:45","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-18-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-18-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 18 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:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/r-j3VSOoAKw\/right-wing-radio-host-sta_n_262559.html\">Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/7r-SLPV20Es\/house-dems-rally-behind-p_n_262555.html\">House Dems Rally Behind Public Option In Weekly Caucus Gathering: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/08\/helicopter-taking-off\">Helicopter taking off<\/a> &#8211; Pretty!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/18\/gop-coop-government-run\/\">Proposed Co-Op Fails To Appease Republicans Who Insist It Is \u2018Still  Government-Run Health Care\u2019<\/a> &#8211; So even &#8220;co-ops,&#8221; which were held out as a tease to get the Dems to back off from the public option aren&#8217;t, in fact, enough.  The idea seems to be to keep compromising until all the Republicans and the Insurance Industry are happy.  Which, honestly, doesn&#8217;t sound much like a compromise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/18\/scarborough-takeover\/\">Scarborough Concedes Public Option Is \u2018Not A Government Takeover Of Health  Care\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Of course it&#8217;s not.  But it makes for great red meat to throw to the masses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/two-readings-of-scalia.html\">Two Readings of Scalia<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure I put anything past Scalia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/nomination-worst-post-of-2009.html\">Nomination:  Worst Post of 2009: publius<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/championsonlinedailynews.com\/cryptic-moves-to-fix-beta-problems\/\">Cryptic Moves to Fix Beta Problems<\/a> &#8211; While I&#8217;ve little doubt that folks would have been frustrated, the <b>lack<\/b> of clear, coherent communications on this during the course of the day was what drove a lot of people around the bend.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/logan-murphy\/cnns-don-lemon-schools-right-wing-pro\">CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon Schools Right Wing Protester About Who Is A &#8220;Real American&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Nice.  Might have been nice as well to let him &#8220;define his terms&#8221; before shutting him down.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/how_to_backup_and_search_all_your_friends_tweets_i.php\">How To: Backup And Search All Your Friends&#8217; Tweets In Google Reader<\/a> &#8211; Ooooh &#8230; this is cool, if you want to be able to find Tweets over the long haul.  (The import command is in the GReader Settings.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/14\/AR2009081401495.html\">Rick Perlstein &#8212; Birthers, Health Care Hecklers and the Rise of Right-Wing Rage &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting perspective on &#8220;the crazy tree&#8221; in modern American politics.  The problem seems to be that the media is unwilling to judge it crazy (or manipulative) and simply not lend it the credence of an &#8220;equally valid position.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17618-photos-of-cake-can-keep-you-slim-say-psychologists.html\">Photos of cake can keep you slim, say psychologists &#8211; health &#8211; 17 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Looking at food is one thing &#8230; <b>smelling<\/b> it is quite another.  Now I&#8217;m hungry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17619-its-true-all-the-best-men-are-taken.html\">It&#8217;s true: all the taken men are best &#8211; life &#8211; 17 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; That no doubt explains all the women who stare at me.  I&#8217;ll just keep telling myself that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/17\/eight-beck-ads\/\">Think Progress \u00bb Eight more companies stop advertising on Glenn Beck.<\/a> &#8211; Good for them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/wgv083Amp7Q\/texting-while-driving-psa-delivers-bloody-bone+crunching-message\">Texting While Driving PSA Delivers Bloody, Bone-Crunching Message [Texting]<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Just &#8230; wow.  Remind me to show this to Katherine before she gets her first cell phone.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/felicia_day_risks_a_geeksplosion_with_do_you_want_to_date_my_avatar\/\">Felicia Day risks a geeksplosion with \u201cDo You Want To Date My Avatar\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Ha!  Yeah, I can understand why so many in my reading circle posted about this.  And, to boot, it&#8217;s a catchy tune.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327211.000-why-humans-cant-navigate-out-of-a-paper-bag.html?page=1\">Why humans can&#8217;t navigate out of a paper bag &#8211; life &#8211; 18 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Some very interesting studies about how we build (and lose) mental maps, and how the talent varies between individuals.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17628-first-amino-acid-on-a-comet-found.html\">Found: first amino acid on a comet &#8211; space &#8211; 17 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; that&#8217;s very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/my_company_gave_me_a_birthday_card_today\/\">My company gave me a birthday card today.: Les<\/a><\/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;. Man Who Brought Assault Rifle To Obama Rally Was Part Of Radio Stunt (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team House Dems Rally Behind Public Option In Weekly Caucus Gathering: The Huffington Post News Team Helicopter taking off &#8211; Pretty! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-18-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 18 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-15609","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":15613,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-19-august-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":15609,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 19 August 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Aug-09 6:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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