{"id":15682,"date":"2009-09-01T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-01T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 01 September 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.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/ksRDDrcFuc0\/the-future-of-airplane-seats-is-hurting-my-ass-already\">The Future of Airplane Seats Is Hurting My Ass Already [Airplanes]<\/a> &#8211; Lovely concept, which seems to be missing something.  Oh, yeah &#8212; air controls. And lights. And overhead bins. Magazines.  And the possibility fo a food cart.  Aside from that, it looks heavenly!  (That said, for a 30 minute commuter hop, maybe.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/PDWBe0OLmhg\/-Kennedy-historians-debunk-greatest-regret-myth\">Kennedy historians debunk &#8220;greatest regret&#8221; myth<\/a> &#8211; What struck me most about the Kennedy quote was not the idea that Kennedy should have compromised more, and the suggestion never came to my mind that it meant the Dems should bend over even more pretzel-like to appease Republicans whose goal is to defeat them.  No, it was that where Nixon was with his offer was arguably more progressive than what the Radical Socialist Fascist Leftist Communists in DC are now proposing (let alone the pabulum that the Senate Finance Committee is diluting itself down to).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/SJeJTgVSgO4\/egg-on-the-face-of-the-al_b_265336.html\">Danielle Cavallucci: Egg on the Face of the Alcohol Control Board of Alabama: Banning Bodies is So Passe<\/a> &#8211; I spotted a bottle of this at the banned wine at the liquor store.  I, of course, had to buy it.  I will show it off to my wife, and it will inflame her senses and make her do things with me that the State of Alabama would no doubt frown upon.  So there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/thisisnthappiness\/~3\/TYe-IAFrFyc\/177327040\">1 September 1939. Invasion of Poland.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/labarberas-war-ice-cream\">LaBarbera&#8217;s War on Ice Cream<\/a> &#8211; Okay, I need to go out and buy some Ben &amp; Jerry&#39;s.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/01\/grassley-bipartisan-agreement\/\">Grassley: The \u2018Only Way To Get A Bipartisan Agreement Is To Defeat A  Democratic Proposal On The First Hand\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Ah, I see!  &#8220;Bi-partisan&#8221; means &#8220;The Democrats lose, and we get to tell them what to do.&#8221;  Got it.  Thanks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/places\/house-mystery-oregon-vortex\">Oregon Vortex<\/a> &#8211; Always loved these sorts of places.  I may have been to this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~3\/I3_QQBuUoKo\/\">Skype Sold for $2.75 Billion: Om Malik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/ZkrFsR2ra14\/if-your-kid-eats-thi.html\">If Your Kid Eats This Book, Everything Will Still Be Okay &#8211; parenting book full of things you don&#8217;t need to worry about: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-08-28-n80.html\">Anti-Google Lobbying in Washington<\/a> &#8211; Because if you can&#8217;t compete with them, then get someone to tilt the playing field in your favor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/29\/1945\/\">1945<\/a> &#8211; We did indeed.  Of course, we were also willing to raise taxes, and did so &#8212; and still managed to have a post-War boom.  Go figure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/MQpbA2EImu0\/\">Where Is Richard Nixon When You Need Him?<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Who ever thought we\u2019d long for Nixon\u2019s America?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/questions-for-althouse.html\">Questions for Althouse<\/a> &#8211; I think these questions should be standard at any press conference or interview with anyone who defends this stuff.  Right after they have their test waterboarding, of course.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/the-method-of-cheneys-madness.html\">The Method of Cheney&#8217;s Madness<\/a> &#8211; An unsuspected danger of making everything into an ideological battle is that folks exploit that to make ideological battles out of stuff that should be straightforward and clear.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/01\/bachmann-slit-our-wrists\/\">Bachmann: We should \u2018make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers\u2019  against health care reform.<\/a> &#8211; Anyone criticizing <b>her<\/b> for wearing a sleeveless dress? Maybe anyone who would spots that crazed glint in her eye and just backs off &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/mcdonnells-backtracking-angers-right\">McDonnell&#8217;s Backtracking Angers The Right<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d hate to be held to be fully consistent with my views of twenty years ago.  As James Russell Lowell put it, &#8220;This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.&#8221; And Tryon Edwards: &#8220;He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/if-you-boycott-wnd-you-boycott-everyone\">If You Boycott WND, You Boycott Everyone<\/a> &#8211; Amazing how deeply the tentacles of crazy go.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/the_fat_o_sings.php\">The Fat O Sings<\/a> &#8211; I use Opera Mini on my Blackberry.  I&#8217;ve no desire to move to it on my desktop, however (I already have four browsers there).<\/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;. The Future of Airplane Seats Is Hurting My Ass Already [Airplanes] &#8211; Lovely concept, which seems to be missing something. Oh, yeah &#8212; air controls. And lights. And overhead bins. Magazines. And the possibility fo a food cart. Aside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 01 September 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-15682","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":38581,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/note-that-john-f-kennedy-quot.html","url_meta":{"origin":15682,"position":0},"title":"Note: that John F Kennedy quot&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Aug-13 5:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Note: that John F Kennedy quotation this morning ... was really by Lyndon Johnson, speaking of Kennedy's death. 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