{"id":15837,"date":"2009-09-18T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-september-2009-2.html"},"modified":"2009-09-18T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T00:00:57","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-september-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-september-2009-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 18 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:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=56349\">Coming Soon: Solomon Kane?<\/a> &#8211; Doesn&#8217;t resemble the original REH all that much, as I recall it &#8212; but it looks like goofy fun for all that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/print?id=8605905\">Great WWII Escapes Planted in Top Secret Game<\/a> &#8211; Some great, fun history here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/meet-religious-rights-newest-target\">Meet the Religious Right&#8217;s Newest Target<\/a> &#8211; Maybe we need a law that puts a special flag on press releases and op-eds that say, &#8220;Liberals hate America,&#8221; so that we can just skip them and move on.  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/conservative-christian-attorney-chastises-right-exploiting-rifqa-bary\">Conservative Christian Attorney Chastises the Right for Exploiting Rifqa  Bary<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Okay, the other day I asked if anyone on the &#8220;pro-family&#8221; social Right would apply those principles to the whole Rifqa Bary sitch.  I am pleased that, in fact, someone has.  Better yet is this line: &#8220;Please recognize that the Lord is not so powerless as to need people to hide information, to embellish facts, or to give false witness in order to advance Christ&#8217;s kingdom.&#8221;  And this not from some squishy Lefty Christian (like, some would say, moi), but someone with solid evangelical credentials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unscrewingtheinscrutable.com\/blogs\/jim-downey\/you-gotta-admit-man-had-style\">You gotta admit, the man had style.<\/a> &#8211; Very cool.  And a great (and typical, for the man) anecdote.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/TIlmaYw0RJg\/mcdonalds-lamp-post-makes-me-doubt-my-mental-sanity-even-more\">McDonald&#8217;s Lamp Post Makes Me Doubt My Mental Sanity Even More [Lighting]<\/a> &#8211; Actually, that&#8217;s brilliant.  So to speak.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dawn-teo\/humana-mailer-targets-eld_b_289421.html\">Dawn Teo: Humana Mailer Targets Elderly, Claims Medicare Benefits To Be Cut<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Assuming that they&#8217;ve skirted around this being legal, I seriously hope this leads to people dropping Humana.  What a bunch of scumbags.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boulderdude.com\/2009\/09\/first-they-came-for-the-abortion-doctors\/\">First they came for the Abortion Doctors\u2026<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Remind me to make another donation to the SKG.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/09\/a_drug_arrest_every_18_seconds.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">A Drug Arrest Every 18 Seconds : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; Rightly or wrongly, draconian law enforcement solutions to the drug problem aren&#8217;t working, aren&#8217;t reducing drug usage, and are chewing up monstrous quantities of enforcement resources, court time, and money.  California with its 190%-of-capacity prisons is an example of this.  Let&#8217;s try to figure out what works, rather than continuing to toss good money after bad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/duracell-mygrid.php\">Duracell myGrid charges phones on a conductive pad<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s kinda cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/09\/17\/video-1959-chevrolet-bel-air-vs-2009-chevrolet-malibu\/\">Video: 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air Vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu<\/a> &#8211; Yikes!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friends-of-jake.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/religious-activists-left-and-right.html\">Religious activists, left and right: IT<\/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;. Coming Soon: Solomon Kane? &#8211; Doesn&#8217;t resemble the original REH all that much, as I recall it &#8212; but it looks like goofy fun for all that. Great WWII Escapes Planted in Top Secret Game &#8211; Some great, fun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-18-september-2009-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 18 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-15837","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":133796,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/04\/not-exactly-a-defense-oriented-lacrosse-game-tonight-but-fun-to-watch.html","url_meta":{"origin":15837,"position":0},"title":"Not exactly a defense-oriented lacrosse game tonight, but fun to watch","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Jul-17 9:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not exactly a defense-oriented lacrosse game tonight, but fun to watch View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DD8P09gUwAALpiq.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DD8P09gUwAALpiq.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DD8P09gUwAALpiq.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DD8P09gUwAALpiq.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DD8P09gUwAALpiq.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DD8P09gUwAALpiq.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":133778,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/02\/health-care-for-fun-and-profit-without-the-fun.html","url_meta":{"origin":15837,"position":1},"title":"Health Care for Fun and Profit (without the Fun)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Jul-17 8:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"A fascinating look at the history of health insurance in the United States, focused on Blue Cross \/ Blue Shield, and how a variety of originally good intentions have metastasized into a for-profit behemoth that perpetually drives higher health care prices in order to get a cut of the pie.There\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":128483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/02\/nanowrimos-just-wanna-have-fun.html","url_meta":{"origin":15837,"position":2},"title":"NaNoWriMos just wanna have fun","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Nov-15 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I consulted with my primary advisor (+Margie Kleerup) about my NaNoWriMo dilemma (what to do, what to do), and she strongly urged me to do something fun.So, booyah, fun!Welcome to the first volume of The Scarlet Throne: \"Heir Apparent,\" a space opera full of politics, aliens, flashing swords, swooshing starships,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/flash%2Bgordon.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":129345,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/spending-on-fun-and-play.html","url_meta":{"origin":15837,"position":3},"title":"Spending on Fun and Play","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Jan-16 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article here that calls on us to consider the money we spend on different types of fun and play -- and to properly categorize those items for outselves -- to maybe optimize the \"bang for the buck\" we get. 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