{"id":19400,"date":"2010-12-02T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/unblogged-bits-thu-2-dec-10-2230.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:20:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:20:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-2-dec-10-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/unblogged-bits-thu-2-dec-10-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 2-Dec-10 2230)"},"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. Close the Washington Monument<\/a> – A fantastic essay. In my opinion, must reading.<\/li>\n
  2. Censorship Spiral: Right Now Wants to Shut Down Entire Smithsonian Exhibit<\/a> – Oh, I see: art is only legit if it’s what the “majority” approves of. Ditto, no doubt, for speech and religion. Sweet.<\/li>\n
  3. Maine’s new GOP\/Teabagger Governor will review ‘burdensome’ regulations on child labor laws<\/a> – Yet another Republican yearning for the good ol’ days of the 19th Century.<\/li>\n
  4. In a poisonous soup \u2013 Heuristic<\/a> – A nice, less-hysterical summary of the cool discoveries announced by NASA today.<\/li>\n
  5. Justices seem skeptical about California’s arguments on prison overcrowding – The Denver Post<\/a> – Take Draconian Three Strikes Law, add Legislature and Public Unwilling to Pay for Jails, cram together vigorously … and, yes, eventually the Supreme Court has to take you out to the woodshed.<\/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 …. Close the Washington Monument – A fantastic essay. In my opinion, must reading. Censorship Spiral: Right Now Wants to Shut Down Entire Smithsonian Exhibit – Oh, I see: art is only legit if it’s what the “majority” approves of. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 2-Dec-10 2230)”<\/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":[133,715,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128368,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/20\/censorship-is-not-the-way-to-battle-terrorism.html","url_meta":{"origin":19400,"position":0},"title":"Censorship is not the way to battle terrorism","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Oct-15 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"But terrorism makes a great excuse for censorship of all sorts.I vote with Jefferson: the best way to combat bad ideas is with good ideas:'Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. 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