{"id":16631,"date":"2010-01-30T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-30-january-2010-2.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T17:57:43","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-30-january-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-30-january-2010-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 30 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:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2010\/01\/maybe-obama-should-publicly-campaign-for-each-gop-candidate.html\">Maybe Obama Should Publicly Campaign for Each GOP Candidate?<\/a> &#8211; More intellectual dunderheadism from the Party of No. Even No to Stuff We&#8217;ve Asked For Before.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2010\/01\/by-eric-martin--listening-to-critics-of-obamas-decision-to-try-certain-terrorist-suspects-in-civilian-courts-one-gets-the-im.html\">Courting Disaster<\/a> &#8211; Folks support military commissions for trying these guys because they think the end result will be firing squads. Which, of course, they&#8217;re not. Of course, the military commissionists would rather these guys just be locked up (somewhere else) and never see the light of day, which has its own problems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/PyteKP3udqk\/shame_on_missouri.php\">Shame on Missouri [Pharyngula]<\/a> &#8211; Worse, some people won&#8217;t see this as a tragedy, but as what is right and fitting and essential to protecting our society. Rrg.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=58681\">Something that really bugs me about the recent Star Trek movie<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard anyone comment on this before. I remember noticing it, but not really thinking about it at the time, and shame on me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=58680\">Losing Your Religion: Christian Horror Classics<\/a> &#8211; I do like the idea of &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221; being a horror movie.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2010\/01\/posters_from_the_avatar_movie_--_no_the_other_avat.php\">Posters from the Avatar Movie &#8212; No, the Other Avatar Movie<\/a> &#8211; I really want this movie to be good, and I am fairly certain it won&#8217;t be. But visually (hand-waves casting aside) it&#8217;s looking cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2010\/01\/australians_are_hogging_all_the_black_panther.php\">Australians Are Hogging All the Black Panther<\/a> &#8211; Well, we certainly can&#8217;t have a cartoon about a powerful, smart, sophisticated hero who&#8217;s <b>black<\/b> you know. People might get ideas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2010\/01\/prisoner_sues_to_play_dd_in_jail_--_no_seriously.php\">Prisoner Sues to Play D&amp;D in Jail &#8212; No, Seriously<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a constitutional right to play D&amp;D, and prison should, in fact, be a dull, boring, unpleasant experience. On the other hand, the official decision on this is just plain stupid, and, honestly, there are far worse activities that idle prisoners can and do participate in.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/30\/afa-super-bowl\/\">CBS Allows Focus On The Family Advocacy Ad During Super Bowl, But Bans Gay Dating Site Ad: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/personhood-sputtering-colorado-says-denver-march-life\">&#8216;Personhood&#8217; Sputtering in Colorado, Says Denver March for Life | RHRealityCheck.org<\/a> &#8211; Good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/more-right-falling-prey-obama-induced-insanity\">More On Right Falling Prey to Obama-Induced Insanity<\/a> &#8211; Looks like someone is skipping their meds again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.laughingsquid.com\/~r\/laughingsquid\/~3\/cwpMZaZuq1Y\/\">San Francisco\u2019s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church<\/a> &#8211; Because dark things cannot abide being laughed at.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2010\/01\/the_20_nerd_commandments.php\">The 20 Nerd Commandments<\/a> &#8211; Verily, I say unto thee &#8212; thou shallt (and shallt not).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/29\/study-finds-that-reduced-phone-use-does-not-cut-crashes\/\">Results of Study on Cellphone Use Surprise Researchers &#8211; Wheels Blog &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; So either cell phone use isn&#8217;t worse than all the other distractions in our environment, or (as has been elsewhere demonstrated) hands-free cell phone use isn&#8217;t any better than holding the handset to your ear &#8212; except maybe it keeps both hands on the wheel. Maybe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Pvponline\/~3\/h5qWjmd6A9A\/\">A Breach In Protocol<\/a> &#8211; Maybe I&#8217;ve just grown used to lame RP and intentionally stupid-looking and named-for-yocks super-heroes in CO and CoX, but, yeah, it&#8217;s jarring when you see it in Star Trek Online &#8212; or, for that matter, in LotRO.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfatwhale.com\/archives\/bfw_446.htm\">Big Fat Whale &#8211; Corporate Persons Are Jerks<\/a> &#8211; But they&#8217;re jerks with equal rights to contribute whatever they want to political campaigns! So there!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/29\/russert-gop-obama\/\">Republicans dismayed by Obama\u2019s strong performance, say it was a \u2018mistake\u2019 to let cameras roll.<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s hard to maintain a facade of facile talking points when someone&#8217;s actually standing right there to refute them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/29\/fox-obama-retreat\/\">Fox Cuts Away From Obama-GOP Conversation In Order To Get A Head Start On Attacks: He Was \u2018Lecturing\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Yeah &#8212; how dare he be all uppity and not stay in his place?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/getanewbrowser\/~3\/MjOZoAsX3sg\/\">Google No Longer Supporting IE6<\/a> &#8211; Good for them.<\/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;. Maybe Obama Should Publicly Campaign for Each GOP Candidate? &#8211; More intellectual dunderheadism from the Party of No. Even No to Stuff We&#8217;ve Asked For Before. Courting Disaster &#8211; Folks support military commissions for trying these guys because they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-30-january-2010-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 30 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_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":[45,35,81,12,22,17,41,65,358,16,110,67,360,348,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-big-business","category-elections-2010","category-fourth-estate","category-gaming","category-homeland-security","category-media-movies","category-my-mobile-pda","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-religious-zanies","category-media-sports","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-women","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1136,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/13\/good_guys_bad_g.html","url_meta":{"origin":16631,"position":0},"title":"Good guys, bad guys","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Oct-01 4:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"They're not all bad guys, guys A very prestigious group of Muslim clerics issue a fatwa condemning the 9-11 attacks, and allowing Muslims in the US to serve in the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/26\/mistakes-were-made-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":16631,"position":1},"title":"Mistakes Were Made (again)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Nov-15 12:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"So let's assume that the 3000-page explanation of why a \"Doctors without Borders\" hospital in Afghanistan was targeted and destroyed by US forces is, in fact, completely correct. 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