{"id":17396,"date":"2010-05-18T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-tue-18-may-10-1400.html"},"modified":"2010-05-18T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:00:49","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-18-may-10-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-tue-18-may-10-1400.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 18-May-10 1400)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/scfqWPVu5Sg\/\">REAL Vermonter-American Mama Grizzly Bear Defends Her Young<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s much easier for gay-bashers to stereotype their targets as leather-clad hedonists in Gay Pride parades (without considering the behavior of, say, straight folks attending Mardi Gras), than think of individuals and families like this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/siAjTM9NFwY\/anti-gay-family-values-gop-rep-mark.html\">Anti-Gay Family Values GOP Rep. Mark Souder To Resign Over Affair With Staffer<\/a> &#8211; The most surprising thing here, given how so many others have ended up being driven from office, is that it was a <b>female<\/b> staffer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/SFh85ke5np4\/proud_homophobe_gets_just_dess.php\">Proud Homophobe gets just desserts [Pharyngula]<\/a> &#8211; As George points out, while Katz is hardly someone I&#8217;d invite over to dinner, give a medal of honor, or put in charge of anything that touches on his zany \/ reprehensible ideas, nothing presented here would have affected his participation in the clean-up effort. Firing him may feel good, but it&#8217;s irrational (and encourages everyone else to treat irrelevant ideological differences as meaningful).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/SFtFRH5nL3o\/\">Texas congressman uses porn to kill science funding | Bad Astronomy<\/a> &#8211; Because it&#8217;s all about winning the game, right?  Especially, it seems, when you&#8217;re from Texas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ojwxJpXKC5k\/100517204403.htm\">Urinary tract infections becoming harder to treat, researchers find<\/a> &#8211; No big surprise. Overuse of antibiotics ranks right up there with global warming as an ongoing, hidden crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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;. REAL Vermonter-American Mama Grizzly Bear Defends Her Young &#8211; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s much easier for gay-bashers to stereotype their targets as leather-clad hedonists in Gay Pride parades (without considering the behavior of, say, straight folks attending Mardi Gras), than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-tue-18-may-10-1400.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Tue. 18-May-10 1400)&#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-17396","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":132037,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/14\/write-your-congressman.html","url_meta":{"origin":17396,"position":0},"title":"Write your Congressman!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Nov-16 1:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On getting your message into your congresscritter's ear. From least- to most-effective:1. Social media2. Email3. Snail mail4. Telephone DC5. Telephone the local officeJust be aware that it's staffers you are going to deal with; they are the ones that will pass the message (often in aggregate) on. 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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p \/ 10c Gay Reichs www.thedailyshow.com \"The Pinkshirts ... during their Glitzkrieg.\" Ha! Actually, I have no doubt that there were homosexuals in the SS, the Gestapo, the Reichstag. 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