{"id":15687,"date":"2009-09-02T18:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-02-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:18:56","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-02-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-02-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 02 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:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/yjtWNnk26vE\/mad-parisian-mayors.html\">Mad Parisian mayors fight each other with road signs<\/a> &#8211; I suppose traffic is calmed when it can&#8217;t go anywhere.  The drivers, on the other hand &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/BCSwncfXGqE\/reformers-to-obama-you-dont-win-by-disappointing-your-supporters.php\">Reformers to Obama: You Don&#8217;t Win By Disappointing Your Supporters: Brian Beutler<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/zEhH2HxrDjQ\/time-for-obama-to-fight-a_b_275332.html\">Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.: Time for Obama to Fight Anti-Reform Lunacy with Tactics that Work: Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/09\/biggest-moment-of-his-presidency-well.html\">The Biggest Moment of His Presidency?  Well, Yes*.: noreply@blogger.com (Nate Silver)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2009\/9\/2\/rightsizing\/\">Penny Arcade! &#8211; Rightsizing<\/a> &#8211; And the Disney-Marvel Hits Keep Hitting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/shortsharpscience\/2009\/09\/ban-on-old-fashioned-100-watt.html\">Bye bye to the 100W bulb &#8211; Short Sharp Science &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; An interesting idea from the Europeans &#8212; though CFLs are anything but ideal except from an energy consumption standpoint.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327243.400-painfree-animals-could-take-suffering-out-of-farming.html?full=true\">Pain-free animals could take suffering out of farming &#8211; science-in-society &#8211; 02 September 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; no.  On both practical and ethical levels, this seems just wrong (and I say that as a confirmed omnivore).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/government-worked.html\">Government Worked<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The Democrats took a lot of heat for doing the right thing earlier this year.  They should use news like this in a relentlessly offensive way.  It&#8217;s time to attack the people who wanted to stand by and do nothing while the economy was collapsing.  &#8220;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/scott-roeder-prosperity-gospel-justifiable-homicide-defense\">Scott Roeder: From the Prosperity Gospel to the Justifiable Homicide Defense<\/a> &#8211; I can understand (disagree with, but understand) a moral argument of justifiable homicide here.  But legally it cannot stand, or else basically anyone can shoot anyone who they think will eventually have some role in someone&#8217;s death, direct or indirect.  That way lies Hobbes&#8217; State of Nature.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/more-layoffs-looming-focus-family\">More Layoffs Looming At Focus On the Family?: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/02\/cantor-canceling-stimulus\/\">Cantor Suggests Canceling The Rest Of The Stimulus: Zaid Jilani<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE5810E120090902\">Disney-Marvel benefits come with time lag, risks | U.S. | Reuters<\/a> &#8211; This is exactly what is wrong with the modern financial world: the idea of waiting 2-3 years for an investment to pay off is apparently unheard of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/02\/steele-howard\/\">Steele Dismisses Woman Whose Mother Died Of Cancer: \u2018It Makes For Great TV.  You\u2019ll Probably Make It. \u2026 Enjoy.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Nice going, Mike.  Why don&#8217;t you kick someone&#8217;s crutches out from under them as you leave, too &#8212; that&#8217;ll make great television!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/joseph-farah-fights-back\">Joseph Farah Fights Back<\/a> &#8211; WND is reality-challenged.  His recent statements don&#8217;t change my opinion of that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/thisisnthappiness\/~3\/eFo9pGFExY8\/177613497\">L.A. Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.wsav.com\/sav\/news\/state_regional\/article\/school_wants_access_to_students_facebook_myspace_accounts\/43034\/\">School Wants Access to Students Facebook, MySpace Accounts | WSAV<\/a> &#8211; I think a private school has the right to ask for read access to such things (if they are hidden except to &#8220;Friends&#8221;), or even to make it part of their requirements for admission, to the extent that they have a right to demand a code of off-campus behavior.  I also think parents have the right (if not a duty) to tell them, &#8220;Hell, no,&#8221; and find an alternative.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/perkins-and-vitter-tag-team-town-hall\">Perkins and Vitter Tag-Team The Town Hall: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/god-wants-sanford-stay-office\">God Wants Sanford To Stay In Office<\/a> &#8211; Isn&#8217;t it great that he knows just what God wants from him?  I also like the self-comparisons to Sarah Palin &#8212; oh, wait, didn&#8217;t she end up resigning?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/nom-loses-iowa\">NOM Loses In Iowa: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327234.700-quantum-amnesia-gives-time-its-arrow.html\">Quantum amnesia gives time its arrow &#8211; physics-math &#8211; 26 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; So &#8230; time can flow backwards all the time &#8212; we just can&#8217;t remember it doing so?  I dunno &#8230; but I do like the term &#8220;quantum-mechanical amnesia.&#8221;<\/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;. Mad Parisian mayors fight each other with road signs &#8211; I suppose traffic is calmed when it can&#8217;t go anywhere. The drivers, on the other hand &#8230; Reformers to Obama: You Don&#8217;t Win By Disappointing Your Supporters: Brian Beutler &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-02-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 02 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15687","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":30345,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/david-barton-dolt-i-know-what-youre-reading-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":15687,"position":0},"title":"David Barton, Dolt (I Know What You&#39;re Reading Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Sep-12 4:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because people who don't read the Bible cover to cover are Biblically illiterate idiots, and Barton thinks Obama is a Biblically illiterate idiot, he assumes, without any other information that he cites, that Obama has never read the Bible cover to cover. \u00a0How he can magically assert his, aside from\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":27107,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/the-unspeakable-blasphemous-horrors-of-click-clack-moo.html","url_meta":{"origin":15687,"position":1},"title":"The Unspeakable, Blasphemous Horrors of &quot;Click! 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Even when the Evil Government is doing something good. 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