{"id":20809,"date":"2011-04-19T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-tue-19-apr-11-2331.html"},"modified":"2011-04-19T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T05:31:14","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-19-apr-11-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-tue-19-apr-11-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 19-Apr-11 2331)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Qj8AlTJeRXo\/029023.php\">The child-labor-law fight<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Remember when there were accepted political norms that helped define the American mainstream? Basic policy tenets that both major parties accepted, largely without question?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/-5Ha-sGMT04\/Scott_Snyder_Uncovers_Bizarre_Background_Character_Mystery\">Scott Snyder Uncovers Bizarre Background Character Mystery<\/a> &#8211; Okay &#8230; interesting &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/8D9v493YJgs\/primate-in-chief-a-guide-to-racist-obama-monkey-photoshops\">Primate in Chief: A Guide to Racist Obama Monkey Photoshops<\/a> &#8211; Disgusting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/WJxSvn4zI3w\/201104180034\">Conservative Bloggers Accidentally Slam Palin&#8217;s &#8220;Vicious,&#8221; &#8220;Tone Deaf&#8221; Passover Statement | Media Matters for America<\/a> &#8211; HA!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. The child-labor-law fight &#8211; &#8220;Remember when there were accepted political norms that helped define the American mainstream? Basic policy tenets that both major parties accepted, largely without question?&#8221; Scott Snyder Uncovers Bizarre Background Character Mystery &#8211; Okay &#8230; interesting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-tue-19-apr-11-2331.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Tue. 19-Apr-11 2331)&#8221;<\/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":"","_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-20809","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":33524,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/if-gays-become-accepted-will-we-have-more-gays.html","url_meta":{"origin":20809,"position":0},"title":"If gays become accepted, will we have more gays?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-May-13 9:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the regular talking points from the Religious Right against gay marriage, etc., is that if society stops outlawing, oppressing, condemning, and otherwise treating gays as immoral pariahs who are going straight to hell and want to take our children with them, then all of a sudden THE GAY\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":845,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/09\/smut_give_me_sm.html","url_meta":{"origin":20809,"position":1},"title":"Smut!  Give me smut and nothing but!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 9-Nov-01 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nick Gillespie in Reason has an interesting article about how porn ... has won. Or, rather, how the public has by and large accepted it, for a variety of reasons....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media &amp; Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media &amp; Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7356,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/break_out_the_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":20809,"position":2},"title":"Break out the white smoke!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Mar-05 1:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In February 2004, I accepted the request to be the Vestry representative on our search committee for a new rector, after the departure of our previous one. 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