{"id":15718,"date":"2009-09-05T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-05-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-05T18:02:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-06T00:02:04","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-05-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-05-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 05 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:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/09\/the-fruit-of-nelsonism.html\">The Fruit of Nelsonism<\/a> &#8211; Well, if only those states had prayed hard enough, I&#8217;m sure all would have been well with them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/26760.html\">John Boehner asks for GOP response &#8211; Mike Allen and Michael Calderone &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a> &#8211; You know, there&#8217;s a difference between the &#8220;President&#8221; and the &#8220;Senate Minority Leader.&#8221;  I wasn&#8217;t thrilled about the partisan media equivalence during the Dubya administration, and I&#8217;m certainly not thrilled about it now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/cueCf0EHli4\/bam-bams-furious-and-opting-his-kids-out-of-the-presidents-illegal-indoctrination\">Bam Bam&#8217;s furious and opting his kids out of the President&#8217;s &#8216;illegal  indoctrination&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m still trying to figure out how Ronald Reagan and Bush I both managed to deliver the same stay-in-school message to kids during their administrations and I didn&#8217;t hear any howling from anyone about keeping their kids home.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5352953\/take-a-peek-inside-neil-gaimans-library\/gallery\/\">Take a Peek Inside Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Library [Neil Gaiman]<\/a> &#8211; PURTY!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/mojo\/2009\/09\/obama-indoctrinating-kids\">Obama &#8220;Indoctrinating&#8221; Kids? | Mother Jones<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/632\/\">Suspicion<\/a> &#8211; Ha!  Yes, waiting for this to happen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/~r\/Slashdot\/slashdot\/~3\/H6zLcczIbWM\/Schooling-Homeschooling-and-Now-Unschooling\">Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, &#8220;Unschooling&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; For folks who are too ideologically rigid to allow their kids in public schools, and too lazy to homeschool them.  And I&#8217;m sure the kids never complain about it &#8230; yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/-1nFXsJmGfM\/\">Mike Judge Speculates on the Future of Beavis and Butthead<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  I can&#8217;t think of an animated show that I am less excited about hearing being revived.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/G_wMGMnrx7E\/neil-gaimans-library.html\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s library<\/a> &#8211; Ooooh &#8230; purty &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freethinker.co.uk\/2009\/09\/04\/%e2%80%98you-can%e2%80%99t-keep-your-kids-ignorant-about-other-religions%e2%80%99-christian-parents-are-told\/\">\u2018You can\u2019t keep your kids ignorant about other religions\u2019, Christian parents  are told<\/a> &#8211; Effectively, &#8220;I don&#8217;t see why my children should learn about foreign countries while they are still learning to be good citizens of their own.&#8221;  Huh?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/cynical-c\/nxDH\/~3\/D3jM-XRxjRM\/\">A Cat\u2019s Unorthodox Approach to Drinking From a Faucet<\/a> &#8211; Okay, even Mimi doesn&#8217;t go for this sort of action.<\/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 Fruit of Nelsonism &#8211; Well, if only those states had prayed hard enough, I&#8217;m sure all would have been well with them. John Boehner asks for GOP response &#8211; Mike Allen and Michael Calderone &#8211; POLITICO.com &#8211; You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-05-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 05 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-15718","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":44619,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/oh-boy-so-thrilled-to-finall.html","url_meta":{"origin":15718,"position":0},"title":"Oh, boy. 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