{"id":17084,"date":"2010-04-11T12:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-11-apr-2010-201pm.html"},"modified":"2010-04-11T12:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T18:01:40","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sun-11-apr-2010-201pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-sun-11-apr-2010-201pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sun, 11 Apr 2010, 2:01PM"},"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. Community Organizers<\/a> – The problem Benan misses here is not that “community organizers” are understimated by the Right, but that they’re generally hated for, y’know, organizing communities, most of which are (psst!) not white people, or at the very least poor, which is nearly as bad. Why, if those type got organized, who knows what might happen!<\/li>\n
  2. Lieberman thrilled by prospect that Obama nominee could make Supreme Court \u2018slightly less liberal.\u2019<\/a> – Wait — all these conservative luminaries say that Kagan is a respectable choice, but the GOP should still push back on any nomination? Screw it — nominate Kucinich; the debate won’t be any less fierce or fiery, and we might get someone who’d stand up to Alito, et al.<\/li>\n
  3. Things You Thought You Could Recycle…But Can’t<\/a> – I actually knew most of these, though I do need to remove the pizza box from this week’s recycle, and our trash collector has okayed plastic bottle tops.<\/li>\n
  4. Seattle Steampunks band together to save a local Steampunk gem!<\/a> – Very cool effort.<\/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 …. Community Organizers – The problem Benan misses here is not that “community organizers” are understimated by the Right, but that they’re generally hated for, y’know, organizing communities, most of which are (psst!) not white people, or at the very … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Sun, 11 Apr 2010, 2:01PM”<\/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-17084","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":134005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/pokemon-go-fest-organizers-blasting-off-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":17084,"position":0},"title":""Pokemon Go Fest organizers blasting off again …"","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 31-Jul-17 12:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because who would have ever thought that massive attendance a huge Pokemon Go celebration, where all sorts of rares and in-game events were being offered, would cause any sort of uptick in mobile data demand? 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