{"id":20568,"date":"2011-03-26T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/unblogged-bits-sat-26-mar-11-0530.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T11:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-26-mar-11-0530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/26\/unblogged-bits-sat-26-mar-11-0530.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 26-Mar-11 0530)"},"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. Justice-For-Sale Lobbyists Raising \u2018Unlimited and Undisclosed\u2019 Donations To Buy Supreme Court Seat<\/a> – Shameless. Understandable, but shameless.<\/li>\n
  2. Woops, Newt Did It Again: Trying To Defend Libya Flip-Flop, Gingrich Reverses Himself On Air Power<\/a> – The puffed-up pundit who would be president.<\/li>\n
  3. Bryan Fischer Interviews Newt Gingrich<\/a> – You will all be glad to know that I have decided NOT to watch these videos, either because my head would explode or because I would spend the next 12 hours writing a tediously thorough rebuttal to such doltitude.<\/li>\n
  4. Bachmann Copies Qaddafi’s Talking Points, Makes Serious Foreign Policy Blunder<\/a> – And this is a woman who was given a seat on the House Intelligence Committee? Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  5. Senator Obama on the Constitution<\/a> – I don’t necessarily expect that a Senator will feel the same way about a lot of things once s\/he becomes President — but it’s still worth recognizing and questioning those changes in opinion.<\/li>\n
  6. The Lesson the U.S. Is Teaching the World in Libya<\/a> – I don’t dismiss the justification for military intervention in Libya so easily — but, yes, the collateral lessons being taught will have an effect.<\/li>\n
  7. Hollywood Continues Its Plan To Kill Netflix<\/a> – The problem is, I think, closer to the psychological factor cited here. Too many in The Industry see it all as a zero-sum game. If I am winning, you must be losing — even if you wouldn’t actually be making any more if I vanished. Thus, someone who finds a way to make money off your content, even if it’s money you couldn’t, or wouldn’t, make, must be stealing that money from you.<\/li>\n
  8. The Sunk Cost Fallacy<\/a> – “Sunk costs drive wars, push up prices in auctions and keep failed political policies alive. The fallacy makes you finish the meal when you are already full. It fills your home with things you no longer want or use. Every garage sale is a funeral for someone\u2019s sunk costs.”<\/li>\n
  9. Grilling: Smashed Potatoes<\/a> – Um … Margie …?<\/li>\n
  10. How an Atheist Made Me a Better Christian<\/a> – A lovely essay, with much truth to it. “Do you think it\u2019s possible to benefit from a relationship with people of different faith backgrounds or beliefs than your own?” Absolutely. In some ways, why else would we be here on Earth?<\/li>\n
  11. Web Exclusive Prequel – Season 6 Episode 1 – Season 6 – Doctor Who – Video – BBC America<\/a> – Steven Moffat strikes again. Yeah, I want to see this.<\/li>\n
  12. People officially say “LOL” out loud<\/a> – Time … and language … march on.<\/li>\n
  13. Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Updates Via Plugins?<\/a> – On the one hand, it’s adding a layer of complexity, which adds risk. On the other hand, if it allows updates\/fixes without the effort and danger of core file updates, that’s probably a good thing.<\/li>\n
  14. Huckabee: Americans Should Be Forced, At Gunpoint, To Learn From David Barton<\/a> – Mike Huckabee is a dolt. And a dangerous one. I mean, yeah, he’s probably talking hyperbolically here — but can you imagine the uproar if someone on the Left said that he wished everyone could be forced at gunpoint to listen to President Obama?<\/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 …. Justice-For-Sale Lobbyists Raising \u2018Unlimited and Undisclosed\u2019 Donations To Buy Supreme Court Seat – Shameless. Understandable, but shameless. Woops, Newt Did It Again: Trying To Defend Libya Flip-Flop, Gingrich Reverses Himself On Air Power – The puffed-up pundit who would … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 26-Mar-11 0530)”<\/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-20568","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":130810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/when-you-lose-newt-gingrich.html","url_meta":{"origin":20568,"position":0},"title":"When you lose Newt Gingrich","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Jun-16 5:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Newt still supports Trump, but has criticized his racist comments about American-born District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing suits against Trump University. 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