{"id":19917,"date":"2011-01-20T22:30:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/unblogged-bits-thu-20-jan-11-2230.html"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:30:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T05:30:56","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-20-jan-11-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/unblogged-bits-thu-20-jan-11-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 20-Jan-11 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. Christie Attacked By Right-Wing Bloggers For Appointing Muslim Judge: \u2018He\u2019s In Bed With The Enemy\u2019<\/a> – Christie has done a lot of asinine things. This is not one of them, esp. as it exposes (again) the sort of vitriolic knee-jerk anti-Islam bias from so many on the Right. Dolts.<\/li>\n
  2. Why You Shouldn’t Check Your Email First Thing in the Morning [Email]<\/a> – Tempting. But, then, I sort of NEED to know “what fires need to be put out.” That’s why they’re considered fires.<\/li>\n
  3. Awesome & Creative Sticky Notes<\/a> – Fun!<\/li>\n
  4. Another look at soap and science<\/a> – I’ll … keep washing with soap. But, yeah, washing (even without soap) is better than not.<\/li>\n
  5. Universal Remotes – NYTimes.com<\/a> – We, too, have all our current remotes in a bowl on the coffee table. Usually only one is needed at a time, so it’s not that big a deal. But, yeah, I’d love something that did it all.<\/li>\n
  6. The Love Affair With the Fireplace Cools – NYTimes.com<\/a> – We use our wood fireplace probably 3-4 times a year. It makes us happy.<\/li>\n
  7. Justices Uphold Background Checks – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Note: I work for a government contractor. Yikes. Plus: extra-special bonus Scalia zaniness!<\/li>\n
  8. Walmart Reveals Details of Quest to Cut the Nation’s Waistline: Less Sugar, Sodium, Trans Fat<\/a> – Walmart doing something … good …? No, no, it must be a way to cut prices and deprive the sweatshop children of Asia of their nutritious fruits and vegetables.<\/li>\n
  9. Increasing concerns GOP will shut down entire fed govt to stop health care reform<\/a> – Oh … boy … time for some more blood pressure medicine.<\/li>\n
  10. Founding Fathers Would Have Supported Government-Run Health Care Paid By Mandatory Tax<\/a> – Now, to be sure, Adams (and his Congress) passed some other laws that would be considered unconstitutional today (see: Alien & Sedition Acts), but I'll be curious to see if this this other action on their part gets any play during the coming ludicrous court cases.<\/li>\n
  11. Bring on the stupid: promoting health is killing people<\/a> – “Eating vegetables and talking a walk didn’t used to be a political act in this country, but I guess it is now.” Indeed, healthy eating and exercise used to be considered patriotic and laudable. Now they’re signs of the Socialist Apocalypse Caused By The Wife Of That Non-American Muslim Atheist In The White House. Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  12. New Type Of Memory Could Boot Your Computer Instantly [Science]<\/a> – Oooooh …<\/li>\n
  13. The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell [Video]<\/a> – Cooool …<\/li>\n
  14. Texting Woman Who Fell Into Fountain May Sue Mall<\/a> – (Rolls eyes.) If the worse thing that happens here is a bit of embarrassment, she’s getting off easy.<\/li>\n
  15. Apple “screwing” new iPhones out of simple DIY repair<\/a> – Stay classy and open, Apple!<\/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 …. Christie Attacked By Right-Wing Bloggers For Appointing Muslim Judge: \u2018He\u2019s In Bed With The Enemy\u2019 – Christie has done a lot of asinine things. This is not one of them, esp. as it exposes (again) the sort of vitriolic … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 20-Jan-11 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_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-19917","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":40779,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/12\/why-is-chris-christie-in-trouble-women-obviously.html","url_meta":{"origin":19917,"position":0},"title":"Why is Chris Christie in trouble? 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