{"id":16020,"date":"2009-10-15T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-15-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-10-15T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T00:00:25","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-15-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-15-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 15 October 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.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/interracial-couple-denied-marriage-license-sake-children\">Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License For Sake Of The Children: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/10\/bitches_without_ramen_noodles_leave.php\">Bitches without Ramen Noodles, Leave<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; that&#8217;s &#8230; well, that&#8217;s very Japanese.  Which is another word, in this context, for CRAZY.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/ptFVSwXofGk\/amazon-now-delivers-stuff-the-same-day-you-order-it\">Amazon Now Delivers Stuff the Same Day You Order It [Amazon]<\/a> &#8211; What? What? No Denver?  DAMN YOU, AMAZON, FOR MAKING ME WAIT FOR FREE SECOND DAY DELIVERY WITH MY NOW-OH-SO-INADEQUATE AMAZON PRIME MEMBERSHIP!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soberinanightclub.com\/2009\/10\/originality.html\">Originality: Miss Lyd<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=58068\">Elvish Songs, Howard Shore, and the Best Creative Process Ever: Genevieve Valentine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/10\/battlestar_ga-scantily-clad-ica.php\">Battlestar Ga-Scantily-Clad-ica<\/a> &#8211; Two things on the Maxim cover:  (1) Too skinny! (2) Um, PHASERS?!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/10\/rainbow_brite_returns_for_some_reason.php\">Rainbow Brite Returns, for Some Reason<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/harry-reid-plays-chin-music-insurance\">Harry Reid Plays Chin Music With Insurance Companies; Threatens Repeal of  Anti-Trust Exemption<\/a> &#8211; Nice.  Perhaps the Dems are finally growing a pair.  Or a least one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/15\/flashback-fox-gillespie-nbc\/\">FLASHBACK: Fox News Supported Bush White House\u2019s War Against NBC<\/a> &#8211; Bald-face hypocrisy from Fox News?  Inconceivable!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/U0INx3Ci3fE\/\">\u201c(Black) Unhypenated American\u201d Compares Limbaugh Bid Denial To \u201cLynching\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Glad to see the word &#8220;lynch&#8221; is being equally devalued by hyperbolic over-use as the word &#8220;fascist.&#8221;  Remarkable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/LsH5BYghEUg\/\">Is Twitter Over? (I Say No)<\/a> &#8211; Puh-leeze.  Twitter is a whole heck of a lot more than following celebs (or leaving when they do).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/10\/hollywood-pressuring-fcc-selectable-output-control\">Hollywood Pressuring FCC on Selectable Output Control Again<\/a> &#8211; If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, try, try again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/15\/rove-afghanistan-troops\/\">Rove: Bush Administration Never Rejected A Request For More Troops From  Afghanistan Commanders<\/a> &#8211; Ah, Karl &#8230; is there no aspect of the Bush Administration that you aren&#8217;t willing to lie about?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/15\/castellanos-ahip-gop\/\">CNN\u2019s Castellanos Problem: On-Air Contributor Revealed To Be Paid By GOP,  Insurance Industry<\/a> &#8211; Remarkable that infomercials require a note that &#8220;this is a paid advertisement,&#8221; but folks who work for political parties or industry groups can show up on TV as &#8220;experts&#8221; without any indication of to whom they are beholden &#8230; until they (or their networks) are caught.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/15\/insurance-company-patients-dogs\/\">Insurance company executive refers to high-cost patients as \u2018dogs.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Never under-estimate the motivation of profit to find a way to avoid losing money, no matter who gets hurt along the way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/50-republicans-join-rep-kings-anti-jennings-crusade\">50+ Republicans Join Rep King&#8217;s Anti-Jennings Crusade<\/a> &#8211; Well, heck, why let something like mere truth get in the way of a witch hunt?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/wnd-halls-congress-where-intern-spy\">From WND to The Halls of Congress, Where Intern = Spy<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Currying influence for me, but not for thee.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/does-dobson-know-robertson-graham-not-dead\">Does Dobson Know That Robertson and Graham Are Not Dead?<\/a> &#8211; Maybe he knows something we don&#8217;t.  Pat Robertson has been kind of a zombie for some time &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/land-obama-destroying-our-civilization\">Land: Obama Is Destroying Our Civilization<\/a> &#8211; Good Lord &#8212; how brittle and fragile Christian Civilization must be if just one man can irrevocably destroy it.  Perhaps prayer would be more useful than politics &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/githyankidiaspora.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/15\/the-myth-of-story-preservation\/\">The Myth of Story Preservation<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Shitty stories are made in those times everyone is being careful not to ruin the story, leading to cowardly decisions and furrowed braves and serious thinking about serious things. Story is fun, let it out of the cage. It the story get damaged and messy.&#8221; &#8212; or, put another way, &#8220;The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.&#8221;  I&#8217;ve played too many games this way, personally (as both player and GM).<\/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;. Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License For Sake Of The Children: Kyle Bitches without Ramen Noodles, Leave &#8211; Um &#8230; that&#8217;s &#8230; well, that&#8217;s very Japanese. Which is another word, in this context, for CRAZY. Amazon Now Delivers Stuff the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-15-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 15 October 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-16020","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":13091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/amazon_for_the_win.html","url_meta":{"origin":16020,"position":0},"title":"Amazon for the win","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jul-08 10:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the Amazon Wish List capability -- being able to flag any item in Amazon as something you want, then being able to point friends and family at same....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23757,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/amazon-is-an-astonishingly-big-company.html","url_meta":{"origin":16020,"position":1},"title":"Amazon is an astonishingly big company","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 15-Nov-11 2:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This infographic is really very cool -- if mildly scary. 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