{"id":15861,"date":"2009-09-24T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-24-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-24T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-24-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-24-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 24 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:\/\/thepumphandle.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/23\/evidence-that-smoking-bans-work\/\">Evidence that Smoking Bans Work<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; that&#8217;s actually a lot more significant than I would have thought, too.  I&#8217;ve just enjoyed not having cigarette smoke around.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/AFLBf-4oUvo\/\">Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m surprised there hasn&#8217;t been something like this previously.  A good clearing-house idea, if nothing else.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/633\/\">Blockbuster Mining<\/a> &#8211; Ah &#8230; adventures in kid lit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/23\/king-gay-marriage-socialist\/\">King: Same-Sex Marriage Is \u2018A Purely Socialist Concept\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Same-sex marriage leads to group marriage, leads to big group marriage, leads to really big group marriage, leads to socialism. Uh-huh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/blaming-rifqa-bary%E2%80%99s-parents-right-wing-holy-war\">Blaming Rifqa Bary\u2019s Parents For the Right Wing Holy War<\/a> &#8211; Shameless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/religious-right-mobilizes-fight-muslim-prayer-rally\">Religious Right Mobilizes To Fight Muslim Prayer Rally<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s a &#8220;significant throbbing moment&#8221;?  Um &#8230; okay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rifqa-bary-wins-more-right-wing-support\">Rifqa Bary Wins More Right Wing Support<\/a> &#8211; WTF is the &#8220;Church of America&#8221;? Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/how-take-back-america-nazis\">How To Take Back America &#8230; From the Nazis<\/a> &#8211; The answer to the final question: &#8220;Looking for votes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2009\/09\/23\/fallen-earths-females-get-a-more-feminine-facelift\/\">Fallen Earth&#8217;s females get a more feminine facelift<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; it&#8217;s a post-apocalyptic MMO and the players are worried about whether the lady-folk are hawt enough?  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/now_for_some_sports\/\">Now for some sports..<\/a> &#8211; Heh &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fstdt.net\/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=65994\">Pastor Jack Hyles, jesus-is-savior<\/a> &#8211; I hope Katherine grows up being able to totally karate-chop the hell out of any boy (or girl, for that matter) who looks at her cross-ways.  So there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/lm9UXDRB0Sc\/\">Cool Stuff: Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut<\/a> &#8211; If the distinction from the Penultimate Director&#8217;s Cut is the interweaving of the Tales of the Black Freighter, I see no need to rush out to buy another copy of the film.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edgeofthewest.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/21\/conservatives-are-outraged-over-an-actual-outrage-color-me-impressed\/\">Conservatives are outraged over an actual outrage? Color me impressed. \u00ab The Edge of the American West<\/a> &#8211; &#8216;According to conservatives, encouraging artists to encourage kids to donate blood is now a partisan activity because it falls under the heading of \u201cservice,\u201d and \u201cservice\u201d is communism; \u201cservice\u201d is socialism; \u201cservice\u201d is Marxism; \u201cservice\u201d is fascism.&#8217;  Unless, of course, it&#8217;s military service or a church service.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/AnmdyQAD0bg\/the_drug_wars_death_toll_and_a.php\">The Drug War&#8217;s Death Toll and a Case for Legalization [Mike the Mad  Biologist]<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not particularly thrilled about people ingesting more intoxicating substances, legally, than they currently do.  On the other hand, I&#8217;m even less thrilled at the number of people killed by drug lords, drug gangs, and law enforcement, due to those intoxicants being in high demand AND illegal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/QeqZC-7qc7g\/hd-sunglasses-use-the-power-of-stupidity-to-increase-real-world-resolution\">HD Sunglasses Use The Power Of Stupidity To Increase Real World Resolution  [Inventions]<\/a> &#8211; HA!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/22\/mark-levin-v-glenn-beck\/\">Right-Wing Radio Host Mark Levin Lashes Out At Glenn Beck: He\u2019s \u2018Mindless,  \u2018Incoherent,\u2019 \u2018Pathetic\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Of course Levin is pretty mindless, incoherent, and pathetic, too. And Limbaugh&#8217;s mostly jealous, I suspect, at Beck getting a Time Magazine cover.<\/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;. Evidence that Smoking Bans Work &#8211; Wow &#8212; that&#8217;s actually a lot more significant than I would have thought, too. I&#8217;ve just enjoyed not having cigarette smoke around. Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One &#8211; I&#8217;m surprised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-24-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 24 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-15861","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":26768,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/29\/marriage-is-not-just-about-a-private-legal-contract.html","url_meta":{"origin":15861,"position":0},"title":"Marriage is not just about a private legal contract","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Feb-12 8:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, in some ways it should be, or a personal religious commitment, or something like that. 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