{"id":18958,"date":"2010-10-18T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/unblogged-bits-mon-18-oct-10-1731.html"},"modified":"2010-10-18T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T23:31:03","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-18-oct-10-1731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/unblogged-bits-mon-18-oct-10-1731.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 18-Oct-10 1731)"},"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. Chelsea Rudman: Right-wing sexism: Meghan McCain attacked as a “self-indulgent set of mega-breasts”: Chelsea Rudman<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Former music label boss: beat piracy by selling albums for \u00a31<\/a> – So the protest against inexpensive downloads is all about (a) ego (“This is art, not a bottle of water!”) and (b) money (“He got his, we want ours!”). Yeah, that’s a sustainable model.<\/li>\n
  3. How Xerox Invented the Information Age (and Gave it Away) | Cracked.com<\/a> – Yup. Knew some folks involved and, yup.<\/li>\n
  4. Instapundit \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb MOSQUE VICTIMIZED by shameful \u201cBacon Attack.\u201d<\/a> – Wait … because some conservatives and Islamophobes don’t have confidence in Obama as a strong leader … then Islamophobia and anti-Muslim acts are, in fact, at least partially Obama’s fault? That’s one of the more asinine arguments I’ve heard in days.<\/li>\n
  5. Valabar\u2019s: Stuffed Trout \u00ab The Jhereg Journal<\/a> – The Jhereg Journal has been reprinting the recipes we had down at the Valabar’s Feast at De’s. This is one that Margie cooked (and, as someone who doesn’t much care for trout, it was Teh Yumz).<\/li>\n
  6. New Facebook privacy breach involves apps leaking user data – Boing Boing<\/a> – I don’t think that’s a bug, it’s a (monetization) feature.<\/li>\n
  7. “One nation, under fraud”<\/a> – “Tomorrow, a bank \u2014 not your bank, but any bank \u2014 could evict you from your home. Even if you didn\u2019t know the bank was foreclosing. Even if your mortgage is paid off. Even if you never had a mortgage to begin with. Even if the bank doesn\u2019t hold a single piece of paper that you signed. And major banks not only know this fact, but have spent millions of dollars to defend it in court.”<\/li>\n
  8. Imagining if Miller were a Democrat<\/a> – “If a Democrat had done this, I suspect it would not only be the biggest political story in the country, there’d be an expectation that Dems everywhere would denounce these ‘thuggish, Gestapo-like tactics.’ Glenn Beck would be crying this afternoon, weeping uncontrollably at the thought of what has become of America and our freedoms.”<\/li>\n
  9. Parshall: Gay Rights Are Not Real Rights Because The Movement Started “In a Riot Outside of Gay Bar in New York”<\/a> – Well, and you know, that whole “taxation without representation” thing started with a bunch of drunken Bostonian vandals dressed as Indians, so how could that be a fundamental right?<\/li>\n
  10. Rather Than Investigating Foreclosure Fraud, House Republicans Vow To Investigate Loans To Poor People<\/a> – “It says a lot about the Republican mindset that banks evicting homeowners who aren\u2019t in foreclosure doesn\u2019t merit an investigation, but a low-income family receiving a mortgage in a traditionally under-served community does.” And it’s also a fine indicator of what we can expect if the House goes to the GOP.<\/li>\n
  11. GOP Nominees Steve Stivers, Ken Buck Call On Chamber Of Commerce To Disclose Funding Sources<\/a> – Well, Buck’s statement is more than a bit vague … but it’s as close to his saying anything I agree with as I can think of.<\/li>\n
  12. Kilmeade Offers Half-Hearted Apology: \u2018I\u2019m Sorry If I Offended Or Hurt Anybody\u2019s Feelings. But That\u2019s It.\u2019<\/a> – Y’know, even I feel uncomfortably evasive when I couch an apology with one of these weasily “I’m sorry if” kinds of phrases. The offense was real and demonstrated and actual, not an “if.” Saying you didn’t intend to offend? Fine. But acknowledge that, yes, in fact, you did offend.<\/li>\n
  13. On Seeing the Inevitable<\/a> – Some very good stuff here. I need to read it (and re-read it) a few times.<\/li>\n
  14. Alaska reporter handcuffed by private security for asking GOPer Joe Miller questions<\/a> – So … any suits pending against the Drop Zone yahoos?<\/li>\n
  15. Angle To Latino Students: ‘Some Of You Look A Little More Asian To Me’ | TPMDC<\/a> – An embarrassment to Nevada, even if she loses.<\/li>\n
  16. DOJ Files Brief In Favor Of Tenn. Mosque | TPMMuckraker<\/a> – Really? We really have to be debating this? Really? (Note: kudos to the Justice Dept for stepping up with this, but it’s still very, very sad.)<\/li>\n
  17. Beautiful failed typewriter design: the writing ball<\/a> – Lovely — and a reminder that while form may follow function, there are a lot of paths for it to follow.<\/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 …. Chelsea Rudman: Right-wing sexism: Meghan McCain attacked as a “self-indulgent set of mega-breasts”: Chelsea Rudman Former music label boss: beat piracy by selling albums for \u00a31 – So the protest against inexpensive downloads is all about (a) ego (“This … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 18-Oct-10 1731)”<\/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-18958","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":40906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/sadly-yup-rt-georgewiman-a.html","url_meta":{"origin":18958,"position":0},"title":"Sadly, yup. 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