{"id":20718,"date":"2011-04-12T11:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/unblogged-bits-tue-12-apr-11-1131.html"},"modified":"2011-04-12T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:31:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-12-apr-11-1131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/unblogged-bits-tue-12-apr-11-1131.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 12-Apr-11 1131)"},"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. Obama To Draw Sharp Distinction From Republicans On Budget<\/a> – That would be greatly refreshing. I’ll believe it when I hear it.<\/li>\n
  2. Sarah Palin\u2019s 2012 Shot At The Presidency Is Probably Over<\/a> – Plenty of crazies still in the pool, even if she leaves. And, honestly, she’ll make more money and secure far more ongoing fame staying in “private life.” Palin’s conservative spokescritter career is hardly over.<\/li>\n
  3. Ann Coulter Strikes Back At Trump And Birthers, But Blames Liberals And Hillary For Promoting Them<\/a> – I have no doubt that there are some liberals in the media who love to trumpet this crapola because they think it makes the conservatives spouting it sound like idiots. And there are some conservatives in the media who love to trumpet it because they think it causes trouble and distraction for their foes. And there are folks both conservative and liberal in the media who love to trumpet it because it engenders high ratings in a "bread & circuses" kind of way. (And, yes, I'm talking about Coulter AND Birthers.)<\/li>\n
  4. Slide rules<\/a> – “I\u2019d recommend using a slide rule in high school for the same reason as using an abacus in elementary school: because it\u2019s tangible, not because it\u2019s practical.” An interesting notion.<\/li>\n
  5. Vertical hanger straps bicycles to buildings<\/a> – Clever. Assuming it doesn’t jam while your bike is still at the top …<\/li>\n
  6. GM: Volt drivers getting 1,000 miles per tank<\/a> – I suspect that’s in part because they’re being used by people for less drive-length-intensive purposes (the Volt for around town, the mini-van\/SUV for stuff that goes further afield). However, it’s still a very cool statistic.<\/li>\n
  7. Student loans, fuck yeah!<\/a> – I neither object to reasonable borrowing for education, nor for reasonable actions to collect said debt. The problem is, between skyrocketing college prices (fueled in part by the availability of student loans) and the “for-profit” (whether private or taxpayer) aspect of debt collection, the system is set to screw unwary students over. Surely there’s a way to prevent deadbeat students from gaming they system without turning it into indentured servitude.<\/li>\n
  8. More museums add their voices for evolution<\/a> – Well, what would you expect from a bunch of commie atheist secular anti-Christian scientists who are probably also gay?! Defund! Defund!<\/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 …. Obama To Draw Sharp Distinction From Republicans On Budget – That would be greatly refreshing. I’ll believe it when I hear it. Sarah Palin\u2019s 2012 Shot At The Presidency Is Probably Over – Plenty of crazies still in the … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 12-Apr-11 1131)”<\/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-20718","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":12937,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/04\/palin_potpourri_for_a_con.html","url_meta":{"origin":20718,"position":0},"title":"Palin Potpourri for a Conventional Thursday","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Sep-08 1:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I know, obsessive a bit. 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