{"id":17706,"date":"2010-07-01T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T06:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-jul-10-0201.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T19:38:03","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-1-jul-10-0201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-jul-10-0201.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 1-Jul-10 0201)"},"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. Homeland Security Works For Disney Now? Announces Shut Down Of Movie Sites At Disney<\/a> – Big Media has far too many Congresscritters from both parties willing to do them favors.<\/li>\n
  2. The 12 Greatest Moments from the Justice League Cartoon<\/a> – Rewatched about 2\/3 of JLU (both seasons) recently, and it really was just damned good cartoonage.<\/li>\n
  3. Increasing Number Of Americans Unable To Point Out Map | The Onion<\/a> – Unfortunately, life imitates art …<\/li>\n
  4. Elena Kagan Asked Straight Up: ‘You Got What It Takes?’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source<\/a> – If only it were that simple.<\/li>\n
  5. This Dude Is the Best There Ever Was<\/a> – Must, must share this with Kitten …<\/li>\n
  6. Wonder Woman Has Decided to Cosplay as ’90s Superboy<\/a> – I give that costume … 3 years, absolute tops. Yes, the star-spangled swim suit was its own level of dorkiness — but, hell, so is Superman’s underwear-on-the-outside outfit, and every change to that has been trendy crap that didn’t last until the next big cross-over or two.<\/li>\n
  7. Klobuchar Hits Coburn For Saying America Was More Free When There Were No Women On The Supreme Court<\/a> – Freedom for me, but not for thee!<\/li>\n
  8. Tongue-Tied to America \u00ab MADE IN AMERICA<\/a> – This really needs to be more widely known. Hispanics in this country these days are actually adopting English faster<\/b> than turn-of-the-last-century immigrants.<\/li>\n
  9. Victoria\u2019s Secret Says to Love Your Photoshopped Body<\/a> – I notice the ribs that come with that degree of anorexia have mysteriously vanished, too.<\/li>\n
  10. Putting Airline Travel into Perspective<\/a> – The sad thing is that it seems air travel times are increasing — not because of slower planes, but because of increased delays, security, and other folderol at airports.<\/li>\n
  11. The Active\/Passive Gender Binary in Kids\u2019 Meal Toys<\/a> – Yeesh. And, yes, Katherine usually requests the “boy toy.”<\/li>\n
  12. Co-opting Abe Lincoln and the Fight Against Slavery<\/a> – Some interesting discussion of oversimplifying and co-opting historic figures, Abe Lincoln as a far more complex person than he is as a symbol, and a really, truly, awful, terrible political commercial (with the possible exception of the last 15 seconds).<\/li>\n
  13. Maybe Safety Shouldn\u2019t Always Be First (At Any Age)<\/a> – I’m a big believer in safety, but one has to ask, ultimately, safety to what end? Wrapping a kid (or an elder) up in cotton and isolating them in a little box may be “safer,” but at the cost of actual living.<\/li>\n
  14. Outrage of the Afternoon: School Bans Toy Soldiers<\/a> – “Remember: when tiny plastic weapons are outlawed, only tiny plastic outlaws will have tiny plastic weapons.”<\/li>\n
  15. FL Gov. Charlie Crist Claims that Oil Covered Beaches are Safe<\/a> – These conservative governors are in a bind — either they scream for federal assistance and scare off the tourists, or they pander to the tourism trade and get the suffering locals all torqued off. My heart bleeds for them.<\/li>\n
  16. New Old Spice Ad<\/a> – Okay, it’s funny. I won’t buy the product, but it’s funny.<\/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 …. Homeland Security Works For Disney Now? Announces Shut Down Of Movie Sites At Disney – Big Media has far too many Congresscritters from both parties willing to do them favors. The 12 Greatest Moments from the Justice League Cartoon … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 1-Jul-10 0201)”<\/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":[852,263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130641,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/10\/sic-transit-disney-infinity.html","url_meta":{"origin":17706,"position":0},"title":"Sic transit "Disney Infinity"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-May-16 4:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I never got into this ( +Kay Hill already has a \"Skylanders\" setup), but I loved the figures they put out for it -- various Disney animated characters, but also from Marvel and Star Wars. 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