{"id":17755,"date":"2010-07-04T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-sun-4-jul-10-1400.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:55:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-4-jul-10-1400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/04\/unblogged-bits-sun-4-jul-10-1400.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 4-Jul-10 1400)"},"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. Video Interview: M. Night Shyamalan on The Last Airbender<\/a> – There’s a lot here that demonstrates where MNS was on a completely different wavelength from — well, most of the people who have commented on this movie to date.<\/li>\n
  2. The Last Airbender: The Greatest Fan Film of All Time<\/a> – I particularly agree with most of the criticisms by Matt London here.<\/li>\n
  3. Something to think about as you get your flag ready to fly for July 4<\/a> – Adams and Jefferson were extraordinary — both brilliant, both finding grounds for great friendship, and for great enmity. One wonders what might have changed in American history if they had overcome the latter earlier, or never developed the former when they did. It’s something to consider, in this era of cut-throat politics, ideological poison, and governing for points rather than for the nation.<\/li>\n
  4. Supreme Court Strikes a Blow Against LGBT Discrimination<\/a> – There is a difference between refusing to support someone who refuses to do something, and forcing them to do it. There is a difference between not funding someone who discriminates and compelling them to not discriminate. There is a difference between the government not funding discrimination and the government forbidding discrimination. It seems pretty clear-cut to me.<\/li>\n
  5. Confirmation Bias<\/a> – Confirmation bias is diabolical and widespread. And, yes, even folks who are aware of it have to constantly fight against it. Indeed, one of the great dangers of the Internet is that it provides copious avenues for confirmation bias.<\/li>\n
  6. Crept out the back door<\/a> – The whole “numbers game” thing bugs me. While Christ commanded his followers to spread the Good News, he didn’t indicate in any way that we should be counting coup and keeping score. Certainly a growing congregation is probably a happy thing (especially if it means more voices and more fellowship amongst diverse people), but being right, or righteous, is not a majority vote. What God wants is not determined by whose denomination is growing fastest. Churches that focus on growing their numbers are, I think, grossly missing the point.<\/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 …. Video Interview: M. Night Shyamalan on The Last Airbender – There’s a lot here that demonstrates where MNS was on a completely different wavelength from — well, most of the people who have commented on this movie to date. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 4-Jul-10 1400)”<\/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-17755","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":[{"id":38401,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/disney-princess-last-airbender-mash-ups.html","url_meta":{"origin":17755,"position":0},"title":"Disney Princess \/ \u00a0Last Airbender Mash-ups","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Aug-13 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not perfect, but darned fun.Reshared post from +The Mary SueRacookie3 has redesigned Disney princesses as characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender. 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