{"id":19478,"date":"2010-12-08T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T23:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1630.html"},"modified":"2013-06-07T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T22:27:53","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-dec-10-1630.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Dec-10 1630)"},"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. Arizona Transplant Patients Plead With Jan Brewer To Reverse Life-Threatening Medicaid Cuts: Zaid Jilani<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Prosthetic Tentacle<\/a> – That’s … disturbing. And cool.<\/li>\n
  3. First Private Spacecraft In Orbit After Perfect Launch (Updated)<\/a> – Congratulations, SpaceX! D.D. Harriman would be proud!<\/li>\n
  4. The Reaction of Governments to Wikileaks Should Scare the Hell Out of You<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. “They Can’t Kill Human Creativity”<\/a> – Am I awful because I don’t think of John Lennon as all that fabulous an artist? I mean, sure, talented, but not ALL that. Matter of taste, certainly, but the utter devotion and near-sainthood with which he is treated just raises my hackles a bit.<\/li>\n
  6. Aaron Sorkin: In Her Defense, I’m Sure the Moose Had It Coming<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. In Saudi Arabia, U.S. Movies and TV Shows Are Doing More to Prevent Jihad Than U.S. Propaganda<\/a> – They really like our ideas and our freedoms — when we given them the opportunity.<\/li>\n
  8. Traffic Camera Enters Drivers Who Obey Speed Limit Into Lottery<\/a> – Very clever.<\/li>\n
  9. Scientists figure out structure of enzyme that causes plaque to stick to teeth<\/a> – Cool!<\/li>\n
  10. This is your brain undergoing cognitive dissonance<\/a> – We have funny brains, and so little understanding of how they work.<\/li>\n
  11. We\u2019re Number \u2026 Uh, Nowhere Close to 1<\/a> – Have no fear — those who tout American exceptionalism will always handwave such results away as being caused by poor ghetto children, crack babies, teachers unions, lack of prayer in the school, lack of public funding for church schools, immigrants (illegal and otherwise), liberals, high taxes, homosexuality, and whatever other pet anti-cause they can think of.<\/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 …. Arizona Transplant Patients Plead With Jan Brewer To Reverse Life-Threatening Medicaid Cuts: Zaid Jilani Prosthetic Tentacle – That’s … disturbing. And cool. First Private Spacecraft In Orbit After Perfect Launch (Updated) – Congratulations, SpaceX! D.D. Harriman would be proud! … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Dec-10 1630)”<\/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":[12,10,134,70,17,41,380,358,16,82,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-health-care","category-health-science","category-homeland-security","category-media-movies","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-space","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15440,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/28\/the-government-and-first-class-health-care.html","url_meta":{"origin":19478,"position":0},"title":"The Government and “First-Class Health Care”","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Jul-09 11:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of Jon Stewart, getting conservative pundit Bill Kristol to first admit the government can provide first-class care, as it does to our military ... but that the rest of the public doesn't deserve it. \u00a0 A few highlights, as cited by ThinkProgress: Why is government-run health care \u201cgood enough\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48750,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/to-health-in-a-handbasket.html","url_meta":{"origin":19478,"position":1},"title":""To Health in a Handbasket"","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Dec-14 2:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"He should definitely keep his day job, but overall fun time with Obama on the Colbert Report. 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