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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Cantor’s cracked calculator: Steve Benen<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. A Pledge to the GBLT Community<\/a> – Any child — any PERSON — gay, straight, or otherwise — does not deserve to be driven to such despair. Catholics teach that despair — the idea that not even God can make things better — is the ultimate sin; is tormenting someone into that belief any better?<\/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 …. Cantor’s cracked calculator: Steve Benen A Pledge to the GBLT Community – Any child — any PERSON — gay, straight, or otherwise — does not deserve to be driven to such despair. Catholics teach that despair — the idea … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 3-Oct-10 1130)”<\/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-18797","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":9083,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/unreal_estate.html","url_meta":{"origin":18797,"position":0},"title":"Unreal estate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-06 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"For those who despair of high housing prices in their city, here's a blog that focuses on house prices in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the absurdities one can...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":428,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/16\/dance.html","url_meta":{"origin":18797,"position":1},"title":"Dance","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Apr-03 6:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently, sadly retired the Firefly wallpaper on my computer. 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