{"id":16253,"date":"2009-11-22T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-22-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-22T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T00:01:07","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-22-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-22-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 22 November 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:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/11\/once-common-now-disappearing\">Once common, now disappearing<\/a> &#8211; I guess I&#8217;m an old fogie; I had no idea that porn magazines were &#8220;disappearing.&#8221;  Or body hair for that matter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/11\/harry-becks-us-interstate-map\">Harry Beck&#8217;s US Interstate map<\/a> &#8211; Leaves off a lot of the local Interstate feeders and ring roads, but still very cool.  Hell, a nice resource for a writer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/englishrussia.com\/?p=2451\">English Russia \u00bb Another Trip to Kadikchan<\/a> &#8211; Kadikchan was a Soviet tin-mining city in Siberia &#8212; since abandoned due to changing economic demand.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/oddee.com\/item_96504.aspx\">10 Misspelled Tattoos &#8211; Oddee.com<\/a> &#8211; And you thought it was important to proofread and spell check your email?  Try output that&#8217;s a bit more persistent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oddee.com\/item_96602.aspx\">12 Most Extremely Modified People &#8211; Oddee.com (body mods)<\/a> &#8211; Wow. Um &#8230; not my cuppa.  Really.  Fascinating, but &#8230; um, shudderiffic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/28254\/happy-plane\/\">Happy Plane<\/a> &#8211; Happy!  Though I have no idea what kind of plane it is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/canada-may-grant-asylum-to-lesbian-us.html\">Canada May Grant Asylum To Lesbian U.S. Army Deserter: Joe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/11\/21\/AR2009112102272_pf.html\">Dana Milbank &#8211; Sweeteners for the South<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, some pretty nasty-looking sausage here.  I hope what we end up with is worth all the concessions and policy bribes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_11\/021111.php\">Where Things Stand &#8211; The Washington Monthly<\/a> &#8211; Money quote: &#8220;But that there was any drama at all surrounding last night&#8217;s vote underscores the silliness of the process &#8212; there was a lengthy, overwrought debate yesterday about whether to have an even longer, more overwrought debate in December.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/21\/historic-health-care-legislation-moves-forward-for-debate-in-the-senate\/\">Historic health care legislation moves forward for debate in the Senate.<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s about damned time.  And the GOP, having won concession after concession, is still vilifying even the concept of making sure all Americans have medical care coverage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/21\/1500-arkansas-clinic\/\">1,500 Uninsured Arkansans Line Up For A Free Health Care Clinic<\/a> &#8211; This is a tremendous shame to our country.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/20\/obama-jihad-billboard\/\">New Birther Billboard In Colorado Features Picture Of Obama And Asks  \u2018President Or Jihad?\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I certainly wouldn&#8217;t buy my car there &#8212; even if I were going to buy a car there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/14184\/signer-of-manhattan-declaration-wanted-to-jail-gays-and-lesbians#\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend:: Signer of Manhattan Declaration wanted to jail gays and lesbians<\/a> &#8211; Akinola signed it?  wow &#8212; that&#8217;s good enough for me to reject it even if I hadn&#8217;t read it.  His way of dealing with gays would through the auto da fe, if the government would let him.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mastermarf.com\/~r\/MasterMarf\/~3\/B_y4tx_Lo4c\/innocence-of-child.html\">Innocence of a Child<\/a> &#8211; Certainly a &#8220;fake,&#8221; but an amusing one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheThrillingWonderStory\/~3\/wFXdg6RhckA\/outrageously-creative-ads-issue-12.html\">Outrageously Creative Ads, Issue 12<\/a> &#8211; Seen some of these, but most of these are pretty cool.<\/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;. Once common, now disappearing &#8211; I guess I&#8217;m an old fogie; I had no idea that porn magazines were &#8220;disappearing.&#8221; Or body hair for that matter. Harry Beck&#8217;s US Interstate map &#8211; Leaves off a lot of the local &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-22-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 22 November 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-16253","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":17467,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/unblogged-bits-thu-27-may-10-1400.html","url_meta":{"origin":16253,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 27-May-10 1400)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-May-10 12:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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