{"id":16643,"date":"2010-02-01T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-february-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-02-01T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T00:01:30","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-february-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 01 February 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:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/senate-republicans\/gibbs-dems-will-never-solve-our-problems-without-gop-help\/\">Gibbs: Dems Will Never Solve Our Problems Without GOP Help<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; if one party cannot solve &#8212; or at least act to solve &#8212; these problems, then why (a) do they claim they can during elections, (b) do they take my money and my vote for them to do so, and (c) exist in the first place, anyway?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/things-religious-right-opposes\">Things The Religious Right Opposes<\/a> &#8211; Some people have a real obsession about sex &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rifqa-bary-saga-re-opens\">The Rifqa Bary Saga Re-Opens<\/a> &#8211; Ugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9to5mac.com\/iTunes-9-0-3-released?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">iTunes 9.0.3 is out, go get it! | 9 to 5 Mac<\/a> &#8211; Never upgrade any version of iTunes until it&#8217;s been out a week and folks have figured out its technical and functional problems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jakonrath.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/digital-perception.html\">Digital Perception<\/a> &#8211; Some great observations here about cost and value in the digital age. Yeah, a lot of it is psychological, but that&#8217;s the basis for marketing, too.  Publishers violate the psychology of their reading public at their own peril.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/readwriteweb\/~3\/a_odNt2wID8\/facebook_aims_to_succeed_where_google_reader_faile.php\">Facebook Could Become World&#8217;s Leading News Reader (Sorry Google)<\/a> &#8211; Ugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/why-arent-you-haggling-yet.html\">Why Aren&#8217;t You Haggling Yet?<\/a> &#8211; I personally, viscerally hate to haggle.  It violates both my reluctance to confront and my feeling that people should, in and of themselves, treat each other fairly (i.e., the price should be fair, and so I should be fair and accept it).  However, I don&#8217;t have ethical objections to <b>hiring<\/b> a haggler on my behalf &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Gr1FfJ1lf2E\/funny-lamebook-post.html\">Funny lamebook post<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/02\/wikileaks-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-begs-for-donations.ars\">WikiLeaks, struggling to make ends meet, begs for donations<\/a> &#8211; A worthy cause.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/lTDgAlB5oIA\/store+brand-foods-that-save-you-money-without-sacrificing-taste\">Store-Brand Foods That Save You Money Without Sacrificing Taste [Saving  Money]<\/a> &#8211; We buy quite a few store brands rather than name ones, esp. for basic staples. The fact that the same plants often manufacture both should be telling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticnorth.com\/2010\/01\/mass-homeopathic-overdose-kills-no-one.html\">Mass Homeopathic Overdose Kills No One: Victory Declared<\/a> &#8211; At least healing through prayer doesn&#8217;t claim to be based on science.  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/comics\/tomo\/2009\/10\/06\/tomo\">This Modern World &#8211; From ACORN With Love<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;No, Mr Beck, I expect you to become irrelevant!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joemygod.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/ethics-group-calls-on-obama-to-boycott.html\">Ethics Group Calls On Obama To Boycott National Prayer Breakfast<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think Obama&#8217;s willing to endure the firestorm that would ensue &#8212; not that the Religious Right will stop criticisms of him anyway.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/02\/01\/pence-defense-funding\/\">Despite Voting Against Troops, Pence Falsely Claims GOP Has \u2018Stood Strongly\u2019  For Defense Funding<\/a> &#8211; Let&#8217;s not let little things like facts get in the way of our political posturing, shall we?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/weheartit\/~3\/1__44wSHbbQ\/1416273\">Why you shouldn&#8217;t hang out with cigarettes, Jimmy &#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Might print this one out at home &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/ZVhd49qLHLc\/health_insurance_company_whack.php\">Health insurance company whacked [Effect Measure]: revere none@example.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/books-lead\/Content?oid=3304058\">The Ulitmate Graphic Novel &#8211; Books &#8211; The Stranger, Seattle&#8217;s Only Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; In six panels.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/dn15018-pick-of-the-pictures\">Gallery &#8211; Homeopathic Overdoses<\/a> &#8211; I would hope that this stunt would put paid to anyone believing in homeopathy &#8230; but, then, such folks are already ignoring scientific evidence, so why not this?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/publishing-charlotte-and-john\/\">Publishing, Charlotte*, and John*<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s about a dozen good things in here about the publishing industry, all worth (even as &#8220;just&#8221; a reader) reading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/health-care\/gop-blasts-dem-disarray-on-health-care-whos-in-charge\/\">GOP Blasts Dem Disarray On Health Care: \u201cWho\u2019s In Charge?\u201d<\/a> &#8211; And a fine question it is on the GOP&#8217;s part.<\/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;. Gibbs: Dems Will Never Solve Our Problems Without GOP Help &#8211; Um &#8230; if one party cannot solve &#8212; or at least act to solve &#8212; these problems, then why (a) do they claim they can during elections, (b) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-01-february-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 01 February 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16643","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":138445,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/we-can-solve-climate-change-if-it-exists-with-moar-american-babiez.html","url_meta":{"origin":16643,"position":0},"title":"We can solve climate change (if it exists) with MOAR AMERICAN BABIEZ!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Mar-19 11:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cThe solution to so many of our problems, at all times and in all places: fall in love, get married and have some kids.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Climate Change \/ Weather \/ Disasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Climate Change \/ Weather \/ Disasters","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science\/weather-and-climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mike-Lee-more-babies.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":136496,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/19\/oversimplifying-public-policy-debates-doesnt-make-them-simpler-guns-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":16643,"position":1},"title":"Oversimplifying public policy debates doesn&#8217;t make them simpler (Guns Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 19-May-18 11:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So. 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