{"id":18024,"date":"2010-08-02T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/unblogged-bits-mon-2-aug-10-0200.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:55:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-2-aug-10-0200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/02\/unblogged-bits-mon-2-aug-10-0200.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 2-Aug-10 0200)"},"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. The main reason I blog?<\/a> – As good a reason as any. Oh, and so I remember stuff I did.<\/li>\n
  2. All the Fish that Lay in Dirty Water Dying<\/a> – “We’ll get what we deserve in the end.”<\/li>\n
  3. Kyl Dismisses Reports That Crime Is Down In Arizona As A \u2018Gross Generalization\u2019<\/a> – “A gross generalization” that, um, happens to be true.<\/li>\n
  4. Creating Critical Distance; or, on Teaching Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/a> – That’s … well, it’s shrouded in critical theory double-talk, but it’s fascinating to see an Avatar episode being used in a non-entertainment fashion, esp. one as meta as “The Ember Island Players.”<\/li>\n
  5. BBC News – Many ‘fearful of helping children in need’<\/a> – Very sad. Very understandable, but very sad.<\/li>\n
  6. Mitch McConnell Calls Lending to Small Businesses ‘TARP III’ to Justify More GOP Obstruction<\/a> – McConnell is either intentionally mendacious or he doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about. His rant about nationalized industries is emblematic of both.<\/li>\n
  7. Flying giants: Incredibly rare display as manta rays leap 3ft out of water into the air | Mail Online<\/a> – Cue Irwin Allen …<\/li>\n
  8. Why every AG in the country should be suing the credit-rating agencies<\/a> – Required reading for anyone with a credit score … which means, I think, anyone.<\/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 …. The main reason I blog? – As good a reason as any. Oh, and so I remember stuff I did. All the Fish that Lay in Dirty Water Dying – “We’ll get what we deserve in the end.” Kyl … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 2-Aug-10 0200)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-18024","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":137211,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/18\/do-we-actually-need-a-live-action-avatar-the-last-airbender.html","url_meta":{"origin":18024,"position":0},"title":"Do we actually NEED a live-action "Avatar: The Last Airbender"?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Sep-18 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not so far as I can tell. 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