{"id":16535,"date":"2010-01-14T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T15:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:03:59","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 14 January 2010"},"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:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/01\/att-and-sprint-are-making-money-off-of-your-text-message-donations.html\">Is Sprint Making Money Off Of Your Text Message Donations?<\/a> &#8211; Look &#8212; a great reason not to give your business to Sprint!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/U_egSsX_C34\/mom-made-vintage-gam.html\">Mom-made vintage game sweaters from the 80s<\/a> &#8211; Fun!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/6_7F3OnzvZ4\/boston-cops-citizen.html\">Boston cops: citizen recording of abusive busts is &#8220;illegal wiretapping&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; And cops wonder why citizens don&#8217;t trust them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/AsNdUNtd8sE\/\">Lying for skepticism<\/a> &#8211; This is, if done correctly, very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atheismblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/know-your-godless-heathen-positions.html\">Know Your Godless Heathen Positions<\/a> &#8211; A useful set of definitions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2010\/01\/by-eric-martin--this-excerpt-from-phil-bobbitvia-charli-carpenter-the-newest-lawyer-with-guns-and-moneyis-animportant-con.html\">If It&#8217;s War You Want&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; A good point.  We&#8217;re not fighting a &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; to kill terrorists, or even just to protect our lives &#8212; but to preserve our society.  Which means protecting the rule of law vigorously.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/14\/steele-ensign-affair\/\">Steele Claims He \u2018Wasn\u2019t Chairman Of The Party\u2019 At The Time Ensign\u2019s Sex Scandal \u2018Took Place\u2019: Matt Corley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/palins-tea-party-revolution-will-be-televised\">Palin&#8217;s Tea Party Revolution Will Be Televised<\/a> &#8211; Well, that list of media outlets tells you about all you need to know.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/reactions-robertson\">Reactions To Robertson<\/a> &#8211; Well, at least he&#8217;s drawing the other kooks out of the woodwork (and making some others step away from it).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinycatpants.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/14\/the-pat-robertson-thing\/\">The Pat Robertson Thing: Aunt B.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/RJUVb4qur5c\/fbi-warns-of-haiti-donation-scams-advises-legit-ways-to-help.ars\">Online scammers try to hijack Haiti donation bandwagon<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, I&#8217;d call this evil.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/the_most_relevant_identity_work_of_the_decade.php\">The Most Relevant Identity Work of the Decade<\/a> &#8211; Lot of very prominent ones here &#8212; some I&#8217;m still amazed are under 10 years old.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20527436.100-errors-and-lies-thrive-in-cold-weather.html\">Errors and lies thrive in cold weather &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Excellent money graf: HERE&#8217;S the question to put to all those who confidently declare that the recent severe winter conditions prove that global warming is nonsense: &#8220;Next time there&#8217;s a heatwave in summer or an unusually mild spell in winter, will you publicly accept that the &#8216;warmists&#8217; were right all along? If not, why not? If a cold snap means the climate is getting colder, surely a spell of hot weather proves it is getting warmer?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/the_cat_got_peugeots_tongue.php\">The Cat got Peugeot&#8217;s Tongue<\/a> &#8211; I miss the tongue on the logo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/meganmcardle.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/have_americans_stopped_getting.php\">Have Americans Stopped Getting Fatter?<\/a> &#8211; Unfortunately, what is true for the general population isn&#8217;t true for the specific individual (e.g., me).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/01\/divorce-rates-appear-higher-in-states.html\">FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Divorce Rates Higher in States with Gay Marriage Bans<\/a> &#8211; So the best way to strengthen the institution of marriage among straights is to allow gay marriage? Yeah, I realize correlation is not causation, but it can be amusing nonetheless. (Resubmitting this because it didn&#8217;t reroute to my blog properly.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/01\/earthquake_in_haiti.html\">Earthquake in Haiti &#8211; The Big Picture &#8211; Boston.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/413169\/pat-robertson-was-right-haiti-is-cursed\">Pat Robertson Was Right, Haiti IS \u2018Cursed\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Wherein Pat backtracks his rationale for the earthquake, and we learn who the Real Great Satan is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/100136\">Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian | The Onion<\/a> &#8211; You know, there are treatments for that &#8230;<\/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;. Is Sprint Making Money Off Of Your Text Message Donations? &#8211; Look &#8212; a great reason not to give your business to Sprint! Mom-made vintage game sweaters from the 80s &#8211; Fun! Boston cops: citizen recording of abusive busts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-january-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 14 January 2010&#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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":597,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/one_two_three_s.html","url_meta":{"origin":16535,"position":0},"title":"One, two, three strikes and &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Sep-01 7:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, the happy Sprint guy came today to see if we can get Sprint Broadband (wireless broadband). 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