{"id":15879,"date":"2009-09-28T18:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-28-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-28T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:01:39","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-28-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-28-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 28 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.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_09\/020147.php\">Asking for Votes without Having Voted &#8211; The Washington Monthly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizenlink.org\/CLtopstories\/A000011067.cfm\">CitizenLink: Friday Five: Dr. Al Mohler<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Liberal theology is taking God&#8217;s name in vain.&#8221; Gee, thanks, Dr. Al. Oh, and by the way, for something that is the be-all and end-all of Christianity, (a) the Ten Commandments are actually an Old Testament item, and (b) Jesus doesn&#8217;t go out of his way to place any focus on them, certainly not in any legalistic fashion.  It seems to me, in fact, that Jesus teaching of the Greatest Commandments &#8212; to love the Lord God and to love your neighbor &#8212; can be seen as both a recap of the 10C and a tremendous expansion of them beyond Pharisee-like focus on the actual words of the Decalog.  On the other hand, I do like the sentiment that &#8220;before we get too involved in battles over where they should be hung, we better make sure that for those who are of Christ, they&#8217;re hanging in our hearts first and foremost.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/parenthacks\/~3\/P6tsqfE4IkM\/best-of-parent.html\">Best of Parent Hacks: Halloween tips<\/a> &#8211; Some clever ideas here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/7_Dj1jyxBRI\/\">Google Docs Become More Student-Friendly<\/a> &#8211; Very clever (and useful) on Google&#8217;s part.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/sK7Sc5WV6gs\/honegar-and-29-other-dumb-inventions-from-the-mid+1900s\">Honegar And 29 Other Dumb Inventions From The Mid-1900s [Bad Ideas]<\/a> &#8211; Meh.  Some of these are &#8220;dumb,&#8221; some are clearly publicity stunts, and some are just unsuccessful steps along the technological ladder.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/_z10lgYsr4I\/indiana-prosecutor-s.html\">Indiana prosecutor says she&#8217;s duty bound to prosecute grandma who bought  cold medicine<\/a> &#8211; Ah, Zero Tolerance &#8211; is there no stupidity you cannot shock us with?  &#8220;Because the best way to prevent meth-addicted babies is to arrest women who buy cold medication for their grandchildren.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/NathanBransford\/~3\/wAI1IVRQJO4\/what-do-literary-agents-do.html\">What Do Literary Agents Do?<\/a> &#8211; A recommended description by a literary agent friend of mine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/issuesadvocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\/index.cfm\">ALA | Banned Books Week<\/a> &#8211; Read a Banned Book today.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/09\/27\/twitter-parody-videos\/\">10 Hilarious Twitter Parody Videos<\/a> &#8211; Ha! Fun way to spend a good half hour or more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/gtutor\/~3\/1D8Ng_CRiqI\/\">Google Docs Viewer is a Tool You Should Bookmark!<\/a> &#8211; This is pretty darned clever &#8212; essentially allowing you to (a) embed Google Docs Viewer into a link on your post, and (b) use it yourself in lieu of an external app.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/28\/werthmann-nazism-socialism\/\">Right-Wing Conference Tells Activists To Get Their Guns Ready For \u2018Bloody  Battle\u2019 With Obama The Nazi<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Buy guns! Buy ammo!&#8221; Yeah, that should end well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/28\/texas-contraception\/\">Texas schools move away from abstinence-only education: We don\u2019t think it\u2019s  working.<\/a> &#8211; Learning can, possibly, occur.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/healthcare-reform-obama-re-enacting-slavery\">With Healthcare Reform, Obama Is Re-Enacting Slavery<\/a> &#8211; Wow. The Crazy just burns here.  And ends with a suitably Ragnarokian note at end.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/26\/413-the-mcfarthest-place-145-mi-to-the-nearest-big-mac\/\">413 \u2013 The McFarthest Place: 145 Mi to the Nearest Big Mac<\/a> &#8211; Hmmm &#8230; can we do a correlation with obesity and health here?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/new_nick.php\">New Nick<\/a> &#8211; I will most miss the old Nick Jr icon, which actually had a variety of adult\/child animal combos.  The new logo is nice, but not very distinctive.  (Of course, I still miss the &#8220;Nick-nick-nicknick-nicknick-nick-nick &#8230; Nicklodeon&#8221; stinger.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/item\/tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/a4825d513c835fd6\">I still cant &#8220;Like&#8221; an Item from Google Reader Mobile&#8230; I type<\/a> &#8211; Note that if you don&#8217;t have an iPhone or an Android phone, you can&#8217;t do even that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.firedoglake.com\/2009\/09\/28\/ragelette\/\">Ragelette (Updated: With more crazyrage!): TBogg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/politics\/obama\/1794990,w-facebook-poll-obama-investigation-092809.article\">Secret Service probing Facebook poll on Obama<\/a> &#8211; And it&#8217;s appropriate that they do.  (I&#8217;d agree with a similar poll about Dubya while he was in office.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/why-does-yet-another-form-homegrown-t\">Why Does Yet Another Form of Homegrown Terror Go Ignored By This Administration?: Susie Madrak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/blasphemy_day\/\">[Guest Post by leguru] Blasphemy Day<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t see blasphemy for the same if being shocking or titillating to be particularly praiseworthy, any more than a 9 year old farting for the sake of making all his\/her friends giggle.  To the extent, though, that &#8220;Blasphemy Day&#8221; points out places wher our law remains less than coherent in the freedom of conscience or the separation of church and state, I am for it.<\/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;. Asking for Votes without Having Voted &#8211; The Washington Monthly CitizenLink: Friday Five: Dr. Al Mohler &#8211; &#8220;Liberal theology is taking God&#8217;s name in vain.&#8221; Gee, thanks, Dr. Al. Oh, and by the way, for something that is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-28-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 28 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-15879","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":30461,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/the-ten-commandments-of-violin.html","url_meta":{"origin":15879,"position":0},"title":"The Ten Commandments of Violin","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Oct-12 8:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"This one's for my mom. Heh. (h\/t Doug M.) Embedded Link The Ten Commandments of Violin | The Spektral Quartet The Ten Commandments of Violin. Posted by Aurelien on Oct 01, 2012 in Uncategorized. Austin and I have been playing violin for awhile now, but it wasn't until we started\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":32844,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/21\/oh-look-the-ten-commandments-thing-is-back-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":15879,"position":1},"title":"Oh, look, the Ten Commandments thing is back again","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 21-Mar-13 10:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Once more, with feeling ...No, the Decalogue is not the \"foundation\" of US law. \u00a0I mean, yes, most US cities and states have\u00a0prohibitions on killing and theft -- but so do the laws of cities and states in China and India, which have nothing to do with the Ten Commandments.\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":6849,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/20\/next_up_the_ten.html","url_meta":{"origin":15879,"position":2},"title":"Next up &#8230; The Ten Tattoos!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Dec-04 1:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Since they can't post the Ten Commandments in the courtroom, Alabama conservative judges are now ... wearing them embroidered on their robes. 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