{"id":16312,"date":"2009-11-28T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-28-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-28T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:00:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-28-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-28-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 28 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:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/photo-of-day-analemma.html\">Photo Of The Day &#8211; Analemma<\/a> &#8211; Oooh &#8230; pretty &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/tweet-fail.html\">Tweet Fail: Joe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/11\/28\/rove-on-draft-cheney\/\">Rove Does His Best Cheney Impression As He Eagerly Dismisses \u2018Draft Cheney\u2019  Rumors<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not quite sure how it&#8217;s being argued that 2008 was <b>not<\/b> a chance to &#8220;adjudicate the George W. Bush years in a direct way.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/_Asa_7CVUoU\/091109142116.htm\">Plasma-in-a-bag for sterilizing devices<\/a> &#8211; Oooh &#8230; cool &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/?p=30482\">Balloon Juice \u00bb Always Room for Fearmongering in the Idiocracy<\/a> &#8211; And, I point out, it&#8217;s the sort of thing you see every day on TV and movies, and nobody ever says, &#8220;Hey, that would actually be a grave danger to the President, so we should kick this show off the air and launch a full investigation of how the Secret Service would handle this!&#8221;  No, everyone cheers and laughs and moves on.  In this case, let the professionals do their work and start talking about, y&#8217;know, IMPORTANT THINGS.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_11\/021195.php\">Obama&#8217;s Outreach in Asia Keeps Paying Off &#8211; The Washington Monthly<\/a> &#8211; Diplomacy, talking, hard work?  Well, yeah, you could do it that way, but it&#8217;s dull and boring and doesn&#8217;t play well with the media.  Threatening to bomb the snot out of them &#8212; now that&#8217;s how a REAL AMERICAN would do the job!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/scarce\/sarah-palin-being-jetted-around-evangelical\">Sarah Palin&#8217;s Fake Bus Tour<\/a> &#8211; What? Sarah&#8217;s not really riding in a big advertising bus down the highways and byways of the land, hearing stories, signing books, and ginning up support for a 2012 populist run?  She&#8217;s actually flying around in a loaned Gulfstream jet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/iyso3b7AOR8\/girls-play-with-wiis\">Girls Play With Wiis [Data]<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d be curious to know more &#8212; but my two immediate reactions (which I immediately then worry sound terribly stereotyped) are (1) fitness programs and (2) cute avatars and relatively non-bloody games to play them in.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/google-calendar-sneak-preview.html\">Google Calendar Sneak Preview<\/a> &#8211; This is actually pretty cool &#8212; though it only really helps when you have multiple people with Google calendars, of course.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/oYz567n2hec\/091120081625.htm\">Dispensing prescription drugs in 3-month supplies reduces drug costs by a third<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thatguywiththeglasses.com\/videolinks\/thatguywiththeglasses\/bum-reviews\/13853-ep032\">New Moon<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, I think I have better ways of spending an afternoon. Like, maybe, pouring kitchen cleanser in my eyes.<\/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;. Photo Of The Day &#8211; Analemma &#8211; Oooh &#8230; pretty &#8230; Tweet Fail: Joe Rove Does His Best Cheney Impression As He Eagerly Dismisses \u2018Draft Cheney\u2019 Rumors &#8211; I&#8217;m not quite sure how it&#8217;s being argued that 2008 was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-28-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 28 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-16312","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":136195,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/02\/oooh-a-new-ant-man-and-the-wasp-trailer.html","url_meta":{"origin":16312,"position":0},"title":"Oooh, a new &#8220;Ant-Man and The Wasp&#8221; trailer!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-May-18 7:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks very, very, palate-cleansing fun. 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