{"id":21044,"date":"2011-05-15T23:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T05:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/unblogged-bits-sun-15-may-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:42:55","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-15-may-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/15\/unblogged-bits-sun-15-may-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 15-May-11 2330)"},"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. Stunningly stupid Christian argument against gay marriage.<\/a> – Wow. Yeah, that’s one of the more stupid fundie arguments against gay marriage I’ve run across.<\/li>\n
  2. Jim Wallis and Believe Out Loud, Part 2<\/a> – “Anyone advocating the full equality of women in the church has to contend with the presence and use of the usual clobber verses wielded by those who oppose such equality. The prooftexters swinging such clobber verses will always loudly proclaim that anyone failing to submit to their clear teaching is ‘denying the authority of scripture,’ but the fact is that such authority is meaningless unless one rightly determines what the scripture actually means. Determining that requires much more than prooftexting and arrogantly assuring oneself that one\u2019s supposedly common-sense, face-value reading of an English translation needs no further confirmation.”<\/li>\n
  3. The Results of an Atheist Sex Survey<\/a> – Glad to know I’m amongst the most guilt-free-about-sex Christian denominations. Hubba-hubba!<\/li>\n
  4. Punishment<\/a> – One can legitimately question whether the criminal population in Norway is comparable to the criminal population in the US (and counter-question why that is as well), but it’s difficult to argue against the characterization of American prisons as more or less warehouses of problematic members of society, keeping them out of circulation for a given period of time before simply dropping them back into the general population. And we really expect that to help, except for that short term?<\/li>\n
  5. Those who can, teach<\/a> – I’ve been there. Even the least hard-working of the teachers had to work their asses off. I’d argue that nobody should be in education administration — up to and including superintendent — without having spend a minimum of five years in the classroom.<\/li>\n
  6. Ford Cars To Get Smarter With Google Prediction<\/a> – This sounds incredibly clever … and I’ll be amazed if it’s ready for prime time any time soon.<\/li>\n
  7. All Hail the PUBLIC Library | Common Dreams<\/a> – “Libraries make citizens of us all.”<\/li>\n
  8. What does a trillion dollars look like?<\/a> – And pretty soon you’re talking about real money, as Everett Dirksen said.<\/li>\n
  9. Microsoft Structured Acquisition Of Skype To Avoid U.S. Taxes<\/a> – Well, that certainly makes up for overpaying for Skype.<\/li>\n
  10. Why It’s Getting Harder and Harder to Remember Things as You Get Older<\/a> – Posting this so I can reference it in the future, if I can remember to do so.<\/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 …. Stunningly stupid Christian argument against gay marriage. – Wow. Yeah, that’s one of the more stupid fundie arguments against gay marriage I’ve run across. Jim Wallis and Believe Out Loud, Part 2 – “Anyone advocating the full equality of … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 15-May-11 2330)”<\/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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24019,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/the-marriage-equality-conspiracy-revealed.html","url_meta":{"origin":21044,"position":0},"title":"The Marriage Equality Conspiracy Revealed!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Nov-11 10:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, marriage equality is all a great conspiracy ... but not by all those gay men you see marching around out there in their leather and rainbow flags, but by the National Organization of Women who will establish \"feminist marriages\" where women will marry each other for tax breaks while\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":51514,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/on-the-choosing-of-appropriate-terms-around-marriage-equality.html","url_meta":{"origin":21044,"position":1},"title":"On the choosing of appropriate terms around "marriage equality"","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Jun-15 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not just a matter of so-called political correctness, but of conveying, accurately, what one means. 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