{"id":16973,"date":"2010-03-26T09:48:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-26-mar-2010-1248pm.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:57:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:57:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-fri-26-mar-2010-1248pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-26-mar-2010-1248pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 26 Mar 2010, 12:48PM"},"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. Maddow takes full-page ad in Boston to say she’s still not running<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. U.S., Russia agree to new nuclear arms treaty<\/a> – I will be curious to see how much “bipartisan” support they actually end up with. Given the shenanigans in the Senate the past week (month, year), I think Obama could propose renaming the country “The United Corporate States of Jesus” and would still get a filibuster from the GOP.<\/li>\n
  3. Christian Coalition: Bart Stupak Is a Traitor Just Like Benedict Arnold and Julius & Ethel Rosenberg<\/a> – The hyperbole machine cranks on …<\/li>\n
  4. Poll: Tea partiers afraid of \u2018big government\u2019 want the government to create jobs and rein in Wall Street.<\/a> – Of course the VA isn’t socialized medicine! It’s all-American doctors taking care of our beloved troops!<\/li>\n
  5. Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.<\/a> – Well, you know, anything is justified when you’re dealing with a Disciple of the Antichrist, right?<\/li>\n
  6. Well, That’s Finally Sorted Out<\/a> – Nerd for the win!<\/li>\n
  7. Watch Now: \u2018The Last Airbender\u2019 Trailer<\/a> – Not a whole lot new vs the previous trailer — but we get to see the glider, and we get to hear Aang. I’m a bit more impressed by the former than the latter, to be honest …<\/li>\n
  8. Apollo 13 astronauts set for 40th anniversary gathering at Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex<\/a> – I now officially feel OLD.<\/li>\n
  9. Topless Robot – 13 Great Nerd Movie Scores by People Other than John Williams<\/a> – An interesting list, though with two (Horner and Poledouris) glaring gaps.<\/li>\n
  10. When even a hack manages to embarrass himself<\/a> – So we should pay any attention to what you have to say now<\/b>, Sen. Hatch, because …?<\/li>\n
  11. BBC News – Vatican attacks media on ‘Pope role’ in sex abuse cases<\/a> – It’s actually true that, since becoming Pope, Benedict as taken a much more active and public role regarding the sins of the Church, though mostly in comparison to his predecessors. That doesn’t give him a bye on what happened during his earlier positions in the Church, and, frankly, the overdefensiveness and conspiracy-theorizing of the Vatican in this matter is not helping matters much.<\/li>\n
  12. : This is what Andrew Breitbart calls “journalism”…<\/a> – Summary: “Obama is Hitler! He’s also Neville Chamberlain! He’s a Crypto-Muslim-Fascist-Jew-Hater! And Israel is the only hope Jews in America have to avoid being rounded up and exterminated!”<\/li>\n
  13. The other reform breakthrough<\/a> – It’s worth noting that the reform of the student loan program — removing banks as high-margin middle-men for government loans — got slipped into all the health care reform mix. I’m not a big fan of that sort of legislative jiggery-pokery, but given (a) it’s such a long-overdue and welcome reform, and (b) trying to pass it outright through the Minority of NO would be impossible, I’m willing to turn a blind eye to it this time.<\/li>\n
  14. The finishing touch: Steve Benen<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. It\u2019s Done: House Passes Reconciliation Bill – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Not just done, but done-done. Except, of course, for the court challenges and demogoguery. And, of course, for using it as a stepping stone to even more effective health coverage reform.<\/li>\n
  16. a Brief Guide To Boogers<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Spectacular Animal Portraits by Steve Hoskins (20 pics)<\/a> – Very fun. Must share these with Kay.<\/li>\n
  18. Abbott and Costello Get an AIDS Test<\/a><\/li>\n
  19. Facebook: what social networking site ‘is blamed for’ amid syphilis claims – Telegraph<\/a> – It’s worse than “Avatar” and “Obamacare” combined! It’s the Facebookgeddon! The Facebookaclypse! Facebooknarok! Yeesh. I dislike Facebook for a variety of reasons, but none of these wild claims are among them.<\/li>\n
  20. Confusing familiar with simple<\/a> – Certainly something to think about in user interface design. And for public policy, for that matter.<\/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 …. Maddow takes full-page ad in Boston to say she’s still not running U.S., Russia agree to new nuclear arms treaty – I will be curious to see how much “bipartisan” support they actually end up with. Given the shenanigans … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Fri, 26 Mar 2010, 12:48PM”<\/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":[529,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatarairbenderkorra","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42740,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16973\/revisions\/42740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}