{"id":16952,"date":"2010-03-23T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-mar-2010-308pm.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:18:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-mar-2010-308pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-tue-23-mar-2010-308pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tue, 23 Mar 2010, 3:08PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Jigsaw puzzle or house of cards? The Economist’s take on climate change : The Island of Doubt<\/a> – Wow … it’s coherent, and even scientific!<\/li>\n
  2. The day the republic came to an end<\/a> – Yup … Obama is JUST AS BAD as Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin … (plus, y’know … he’s a MUSLIM! Shhhh!)<\/li>\n
  3. The nonexistent, evil chick called Easter<\/a> – So begins … THE WAR ON EASTER. Except in this case it’s from a Christian fundamentalist. (Pssst … don’t tell him about the words we use for days of the week or months of the year!)<\/li>\n
  4. New bone-hard biomaterial for surgical screws<\/a> – Cool.<\/li>\n
  5. How The Health Care Overhaul Affects You<\/a> – But … but … where do we all get the Number of the Beast stamped on our forehead by ACORN brownshirts? I’m sure I heard about this being in the bill somewhere!<\/li>\n
  6. Proof Of Obama Derangement Syndrome<\/a> – It would be all so laughable if it wasn’t truly dangerous.<\/li>\n
  7. Why Is This Radical? A Town Debates LETTING Kids Ride Their Bikes to School<\/a> – Mind-boggling. Are streets around schools that much more insane than they were when we were going to school? I was just a couple of blocks in elementary, but kids rode bikes there from the neighborhoods. I rode a couple of miles by bike, along two fairly busy roads, to junior high, and that was just what we did. It wasn’t seen as particularly or unusually life-threatening, and I think my mom would have gotten a big guffaw over the idea that she would only be a good mother if she dropped me off and picked me up.<\/li>\n
  8. Frequently asked questions about the health care reform bill. – By Christopher Beam – Slate Magazine<\/a> – Some good (and refreshingly NON-APOCALYPTIC!!!!) info here.<\/li>\n
  9. The Mechanical Kingdom \u00ab Disney Parks Blog<\/a> – Official steampunk Disney? Hmmmm … sounds like souvenir time!<\/li>\n
  10. The time has come! Marvelman makes his return in June | Marvel.com News | Marvel.com<\/a> – I’m looking forward to some of the classic British material. New stuff? Not so much, depending on who’s on the writing.<\/li>\n
  11. Accused Game Cheater Gets Knife Through Head and Survives [Cheating]<\/a> – Crikey!<\/li>\n
  12. Goodbye FriendFeed: So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish: Haggis (Sean Loyless)<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. The Stats on Soft Drinks<\/a> – Biggest take-away: “21% of all the sugar in the average American diet comes from soft drinks.” If you are looking for a way to lose weight, that’s an easy target to tackle.<\/li>\n
  14. Armageddon<\/a> – You have been warned.<\/li>\n
  15. Pastor Who Prayed for Obama Death Now Wants 219 Congresspeople To Die<\/a> – I really don’t see what this guy is practicing as Christianity. Or at least no Christianity I consider myself a member of.<\/li>\n
  16. Certainty vs. Uncertainty: Understanding Scientific Terms About Climate Change | Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a> – It is, perhaps, not surprising that ideologues, who deal with philosophical (and often religious) certainties, demand such certainty from science. Not surprising, but demonstrative of a fundamental misunderstanding of what science is about. Or, as George noted, “The Economist, a conservative magazine, puts it this way: there are two ways of approaching uncertainty. One is the ‘house of cards’ model, wherein any error brings the whole thing down. The other, more in accord with complex scientific questions, is the ‘puzzle’ model, in which you know in advance that there will be some trial and error, some fitting and rearranging of the puzzle pieces. Eventually, a picture begins to emerge and you can make an educated guess as to what it is even when not all the pieces are in place.”<\/li>\n
  17. Right Wing Reacts With Rage: Health Care Will \u2018Do More Damage Than 9\/11,\u2019 \u2018Freedom Has Been Assaulted\u2019<\/a> – They have to keep up the rhetoric because the pols are depending on the fearmongering to win in November and the “entertainers” are depending on the fearmongering for their ratings.<\/li>\n
  18. By god, this has to be a confused rationale for a poll<\/a> – The point is not, of course, being sheltered from public mention of “God,” but whether acts and products from a representative government that’s not allowed to be in the religion biz should prominently mention “God.”<\/li>\n
  19. Fishing For The Truth<\/a> – Of course, the ARE, actually, bugs. Heh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Jigsaw puzzle or house of cards? The Economist’s take on climate change : The Island of Doubt – Wow … it’s coherent, and even scientific! The day the republic came to an end – Yup … Obama is JUST … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Tue, 23 Mar 2010, 3:08PM”<\/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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129864,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/the-myth-of-easter-island.html","url_meta":{"origin":16952,"position":0},"title":"The Myth of Easter Island","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Feb-16 2:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you came upon an island that had lots more stonework than you thought the current population could produce, and there were all these obsidian spearheads discarded everywhere, and the population continued to be in decline -- you might very well come up with a theory about warfare, ecological collapse,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11109,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/08\/easter_swags.html","url_meta":{"origin":16952,"position":1},"title":"Easter Swags","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Apr-07 8:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Kitten made out like a bandit, chocolate Easter Egg-wise.\u00a0 Saturday, there was an Easter Egg Hunt with Rachel in the living room, as part of the Saturday festivities....","rel":"","context":"In "Food & Drink"","block_context":{"text":"Food & Drink","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/easter-eggs.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41752,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/17\/easter-eggnog.html","url_meta":{"origin":16952,"position":2},"title":"Easter Eggnog?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Apr-14 9:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, makes sense to me. 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