{"id":18789,"date":"2010-10-02T23:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T05:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/unblogged-bits-sat-2-oct-10-2330.html"},"modified":"2010-10-02T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T05:30:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-2-oct-10-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/02\/unblogged-bits-sat-2-oct-10-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 2-Oct-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. pakistan<\/a> – “What you did for the least of my brothers, that you did unto Me.”<\/li>\n
  2. Comptroller<\/a> – Thank you. Have wondered about this one for a long time.<\/li>\n
  3. Questioning the assumptions about a ‘center-right nation’<\/a> – I think the idea that we are simply resistant to change, and therefore are risk-averse, easily manipulated into fear of things not staying the same, makes sense.<\/li>\n
  4. Turning a policy into a story<\/a> – Personalizing stories like this always run the risk of (a) dirty, inconsistent reality muddying the message, and (b) not addressing people who are interested in principles, rather than particulars. But it does strike an effective chord against demagoguery.<\/li>\n
  5. Another broken campaign promise: 2010 hottest year on record<\/a> – I really would caution folks to not harp TOO loudly over how hot 2010 has been, since it’s also a truism that weather is not climate, and a hot year is not global warming. Noting the trend of several years or
    a decade is probably much better. I do not want next year being cooler than this being (again) heralded as a new climate “cooling” by the “critics of taking action for a better future” who “only carp that whatever being done is wrong, unnecessary, and too expensive. Plus, they complain that the food is horrible to the point of being inedible, and the portions are too small.”<\/li>\n
  6. Hand the Taxpayer a Receipt – Megan McArdle – Business – The Atlantic<\/a> – I think this kind of transparency is, net, a good thing. Folks really have no idea where their taxes go, just a sense that “All those Other Folks” are taking advantage of them. Me? I’d consider shaving a few cents off what I pay for Congressional salaries …<\/li>\n
  7. Racism: the board game<\/a> – Something for next Game Day! Or … maybe not …<\/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 …. pakistan – “What you did for the least of my brothers, that you did unto Me.” Comptroller – Thank you. Have wondered about this one for a long time. Questioning the assumptions about a ‘center-right nation’ – I think … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 2-Oct-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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18789","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":38486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/16\/risk-risk-is-our-business.html","url_meta":{"origin":18789,"position":0},"title":"Risk! 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