{"id":15844,"date":"2009-09-20T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-20-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-20T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-20-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-20-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 20 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:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/19\/coburn-schwartz-pornography\/\">Coburn\u2019s Chief Of Staff On Keeping Kids Away From Porn: \u2018All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography\u2019: Matt Corley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/19\/perry-recession\/\">Gov. Perry laughs off recession: \u2018We\u2019re in one?\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Denialism continues to spread.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/19\/pre-existing-conditions\/\">Insurers\u2019 pre-existing conditions include being a cop, expectant father, or  having acne.<\/a> &#8211; Bottom line: if they dig hard enough, they can always find something to deny you coverage.  And if you cost them enough, they&#8217;ll dig hard enough.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/19\/beck-stamp-smear\/\">A $1,761 Postage Stamp: How The Glenn Beck Machine Constructed An Attack On  Clean Energy Reform<\/a> &#8211; The Big Lie self-evidently works.  Repeat something outrageous often enough, despite corrections as to your facts from others, and other people will start to believe and pick it up.  It&#8217;s grotesquely dishonest, and ultimately destructive to the Republic &#8230; &#8220;but, hey, as long as our side scores some points, it&#8217;s worth it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/19\/rivkin-casey-czars\/\">Reagan and George H.W. Bush advisers defend presidential \u2018czars.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Should the Senate be able to approve everyone who even advises the President?  Does that include lobbyists?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/valuable-lesson-values-voter-summit-rights-definition-religious-liberty\">Valuable Lesson from the Values Voter Summit: Right&#8217;s Definition of  Religious Liberty<\/a> &#8211; It is certainly possible to construe the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution this way &#8212; but only if you&#8217;re a self-serving theocrat who very literally wants to Lord it over your fellow citizenry.  No thanks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/rick-sanchez-calls-fox-news-liars\">Rick Sanchez Calls Fox News Liars<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d feel better about this excellent take-down of Fox&#8217;s self-serving lies, save for one thing: I disagree that the whole 9\/12 foofoorah actually <b>deserved<\/b> the extensive coverage it was given by the various news networks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2009\/09\/19\/foursquare-will-it-be-bigger-than-twitter\/\">Foursquare: will it be bigger than Twitter?<\/a> &#8211; Hmmm.  I&#8217;m not sure I want to broadcast where I am all the time &#8212; but I suspect that is coming anyway.  Interesting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/oneutah\/Gkug\/~3\/GRU7I-JbdX4\/\">The Politics of Reform and the Politics of Caution<\/a> &#8211; Much of this seems simplistic and overgeneralized &#8212; in the specific, as each individual approaches theses issues slightly differently.  As a general set of observations and conclusions, though, it rings mightily true.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/22132\/20090917\/\">Hollywood wife lays in to Swedish men &#8211; The Local<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; I iron.  And sometimes cook meals. And take care of the kid for over 20 minutes at a stretch.  And I consider my &#8220;faithfulness&#8221; to be my responsibility, not my wife&#8217;s (though I never turn down her efforts to keep me from wanting to &#8220;stray&#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;. Coburn\u2019s Chief Of Staff On Keeping Kids Away From Porn: \u2018All Pornography Is Homosexual Pornography\u2019: Matt Corley Gov. Perry laughs off recession: \u2018We\u2019re in one?\u2019 &#8211; Denialism continues to spread. Insurers\u2019 pre-existing conditions include being a cop, expectant father, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-20-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 20 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-15844","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":6581,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/16\/careful_study.html","url_meta":{"origin":15844,"position":0},"title":"Careful study","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Aug-04 3:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Just as the Australian government is locked in debate about the best way to shelter its citizenry from pornography, a government-sponsored study yas determined that, well, it's not all that...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; PC&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ZT &amp; PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13355,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/14\/criminalizing_stupidity.html","url_meta":{"origin":15844,"position":1},"title":"Criminalizing stupidity","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jan-09 8:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Though it's sometimes tempting to criminalize stupidity, it would be nice if we, y'know, limited it to adults. 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