{"id":20854,"date":"2011-04-25T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/unblogged-bits-mon-25-apr-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T16:28:55","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-25-apr-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/unblogged-bits-mon-25-apr-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 25-Apr-11 1130)"},"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. Star Trek Peter David Takes Fans Down Blind Man’s Bluff<\/a> – Pleased to see the next “New Frontiers” series coming out — and sad to hear it may be the last.<\/li>\n
  2. BREAKING: John Boehner\u2019s $5 Million Attorney Drops DOMA Defense<\/a> – I’m sure this will be spun as gay thugs intimidating the law.<\/li>\n
  3. Rules for golfing during the blitz<\/a> – I suspect this is bogus, but it’s funny nonetheless.<\/li>\n
  4. Bible-Quoting Billboards for the Atheist Crowd<\/a> – Actually, I think it would be worthwhile to have these sorts of billboards up. It might actually engender some conversation about what folks accept or reject from the Bible, why, and how that might apply to other subjects.<\/li>\n
  5. All Trump Everything<\/a> – “Mounting a presidential campaign has always been a great way get pet issues into the media spotlight. That works especially well when your pet issue is yourself being in the media spolight.”<\/li>\n
  6. When Officials Consider Democracy a Problematic Inconvenience – The Washington Monthly<\/a> – Remember how the Right used to claim that local control of things was the true American way?<\/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 …. Star Trek Peter David Takes Fans Down Blind Man’s Bluff – Pleased to see the next “New Frontiers” series coming out — and sad to hear it may be the last. BREAKING: John Boehner\u2019s $5 Million Attorney Drops DOMA … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 25-Apr-11 1130)”<\/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":[36,350,99,37,108,25,9,358,16,27,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books","category-civil-liberties","category-elections-2012","category-golf","category-history","category-gay-stuff","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130725,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/22\/paramount-to-reach-a-new-agreement-with-fan-made-star-trek-productions.html","url_meta":{"origin":20854,"position":0},"title":"Paramount to reach a new agreement with fan-made "Star Trek" productions","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-May-16 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, at least according to JJ Abrams, now backed by CBS\/Paramount lawyers. CBS\/Paramount will be dropping the law suit against the producers of the fan-film Axanar, and issuing new, clearer guidelines for future fan films. That sort of clarity should help. 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Did the Ferengi suggest this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128807,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/15\/movie-review-star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home-1986.html","url_meta":{"origin":20854,"position":4},"title":"Movie Review: "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" (1986)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Nov-15 9:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a damned silly movie, but that's part of it's charm.http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/star-trek-iv-the-voyage-home\/Think of it as a Roger Moore-era Bond, only more lovable. 3 stars out of 5, but a favorite. \u00a0 View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Star_Trek_IV_The_Voyage_Home-634191385-large5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/movie-re-review-star-trek-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":20854,"position":5},"title":"Movie Re-Review: "Star Trek" (2009)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Apr-17 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The more time that passes, the more irritated I get at some of this movie's horrifyingly stupid key plot elements. 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Just ... argh.3\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37030,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions\/37030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}