{"id":18590,"date":"2010-09-15T23:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/unblogged-bits-wed-15-sep-10-2330.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:22:29","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-15-sep-10-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/unblogged-bits-wed-15-sep-10-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 15-Sep-10 2330)"},"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. Top rates<\/a> – Silly rational person … the point isn’t that what the top marginal tax rate will return to is still less than Reagan, Nixon, Eisenhower, or FDR … is that it’s TAXES ON THE RICH. And that simply will not do!<\/li>\n
  2. O’Donnell warned of “orgy rooms” in college dorms – War Room – Salon.com<\/a> – Dagnabbit — I was in college in time for coed dorms, but I missed out on the inevitable orgies. Not fair!<\/li>\n
  3. An Ecofascist Crescent Moon Near Ground Zero<\/a> – “Blending environmentalism with Islam can only serve to strengthen the totalitarian ideals of the green movement. With modern environmentalism\u2019s fixation on ecological holism that strictly views people and their economic activities as expendable, unbalanced, unsustainable and cancerous\u2014this will only be greatly bolstered and strengthened by the totalitarian will of Allah. If modern western man is way out of line with regard to the environmental movement, just think what it will mean when Allah enters into the equation.” Muslims! Greem! Nazis! Malcolm X! Van Jones! Islamo-Eco-Terrorism! DOOOOOOM!<\/li>\n
  4. Glenn Beck To Fat People: \u2018I Say Let Them Die\u2019<\/a> – Because that is, of course, just what Jesus would have suggested.<\/li>\n
  5. Christine O\u2019Donnell\u2019s Website Stripped Of All Information<\/a> – But … but … I thought she was all about Telling the Truth No Matter What?<\/li>\n
  6. Media Treatment of Waterboarding: Is it Torture?<\/a> – Our so-called liberal press …<\/li>\n
  7. U.S. State Prison Population Decreases for the First Time in 38 Years<\/a> – For a nation so dedicated to freedom and liberty, we sure do have a crapload of folks in prison.<\/li>\n
  8. What if the Earth had rings?<\/a> – Just as the oceans proved not too big to fill with junk, so, too, with space.<\/li>\n
  9. On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View – Page 1 – News – Seattle – Seattle Weekly<\/a> – I try to respect people’s sensibilities. But threatening someone with death for not doing so means you’re valuing an abstract idea and your emotional attachment to it more than a human life. And that’s just plain old wrong in my book.<\/li>\n
  10. AMERICAblog Gay: DNC drops Obama’s promise to repeal DOMA, fails to mention marriage, then gets all weasel-y on DADT repeal<\/a> – There’s no question that the cause of gay rights will suffer worse under the GOP and under the Democrats. But by taking these sorts of weaselly actions to try and not be a target for right-wing criticism, the DNC palpably reduces the enthusiasm (and activist support) of an important part of their base. It’s not that progressives are going to vote GOP — they’re just not, in aggregate, going to vote, or going to harangue their friends and family and co-workers to vote, or donate to the DNC. The party whose most famous and successful president talked about the greatest thing to fear being fear itself is, far too often, acting out of fear.<\/li>\n
  11. I hate to be shrill and all, but the tea bagging GOP nominee for NY governor is a pig. (No offense to pigs.): noreply@blogger.com (digby)<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. More Evidence Our Memory Stinks<\/a> – With clear (and, among experts, understood) implications in both science and criminology.<\/li>\n
  13. Anthropogenic Climate Change: It’s for real.<\/a> – There is a significant consensus amongst scientists in appropriate fields — thousands of them — that this is real. Whereas the vast majority of the dissent comes from (a) scientists in unassociated fields who are (b) supported by parties (businesses) with a vested interest in denying that this is real. It’s certainly supported by enough evidence to try and act upon it.<\/li>\n
  14. Aspartame \u2013 Truth vs Fiction<\/a> – It’s sometimes interesting when “skepticism” collides with “skepticism.” Which just goes to show one should never grant a “skeptic” authority, but weigh the evidence for oneself. Which a true skeptic would appreciate.<\/li>\n
  15. Dropping Kilometers From Highway\u2019s Signs Divides Arizona – NYTimes.com<\/a> – The US adherence to English units of measurement (which the English themselves have long since abandoned) is … sadly indicative. We’re exceptional, all right — but not all exceptions are a good thing.<\/li>\n
  16. \u2018Just As Much, If Not More, Evidence\u2019<\/a> – Makes you wonder what Senatorial committee she wants to be on.<\/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 …. Top rates – Silly rational person … the point isn’t that what the top marginal tax rate will return to is still less than Reagan, Nixon, Eisenhower, or FDR … is that it’s TAXES ON THE RICH. And that … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 15-Sep-10 2330)”<\/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":[715,16,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33346,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/co-ed-dorms.html","url_meta":{"origin":18590,"position":0},"title":"Co-Ed Dorms","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Apr-13 6:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"By the time I hit college co-ed dorms were passe (yes, I'm not that old). 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