{"id":21154,"date":"2011-06-08T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T11:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-jun-11-0530.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:48:31","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-8-jun-11-0530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-jun-11-0530.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Jun-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. Americans For Prosperity Places Fake Eviction Notices On Detroit Homeowners\u2019 Doors To Scare Up Support | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Stay classy, “Americans” for Prosperity!<\/li>\n
  2. The 6 Most WTF Moments From Shakespeare Plays | Cracked.com<\/a> – For all those folks who mourn the violence of modern media …<\/li>\n
  3. San Joaquin authorizes blessing of sacred unions<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Spiders Evolved Spare Legs<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Firefrog \u2013 Muppets As The Cast Of Firefly | UrlyBits<\/a> – Lovely.<\/li>\n
  6. Settlers of Catan: How a German Board Game Went Mainstream – Scott Keyes – Entertainment – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users \u2013 facial recognition is enabled | Naked Security<\/a> – Lovely.<\/li>\n
  8. Two Women Ticketed For Eating Doughnuts In A Brooklyn Playground: Gothamist<\/a> – Sometimes I think the world is going mad.<\/li>\n
  9. Media Matters Exposes TV News Bias Against Climate Action: \u201c76% Of Total Guests Were Opponents Of GHG Regulation\u201d<\/a> – If it’s greed, it leads.<\/li>\n
  10. 8 Examples Of How The Alliance Defense Fund Lies About Same-Sex Marriage While Ignoring The Law<\/a> – A fairly nice discussion of the claims made by folks opposing marriage equality (and the facts that counter them).<\/li>\n
  11. Sarah Palin\u2019s Midnight Ride on the Failbus<\/a> – “She has become the Charlie Sheen of American politics.” And she should be given just as little attention in the future.<\/li>\n
  12. Margaret Thatcher Shall Not Hold Court for Sarah Palin – Gawker<\/a> – We are much amused.<\/li>\n
  13. Periodic table gains two elements<\/a> – “These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard \/ There may be many others but they have not been discovered.”<\/li>\n
  14. Scott Walker Replaces Painting Of Low-Income Children With Bald Eagle<\/a> – Stay classy, Gov. Walker!<\/li>\n
  15. Christians are the bad guys? This retired minister gets it.<\/a> – “If more Christians followed the actual teachings of Christ they\u2019d have a much better image.” Yup.<\/li>\n
  16. USDA changes guidelines for cooking pork – chicagotribune.com<\/a> – Mmmm … pork …<\/li>\n
  17. Catholic Charities sue Illinois over foster rules – chicagotribune.com<\/a> – If religious-based charities choose to discriminate based on their religious beliefs, that is their prerogative … UNLESS they are accepting government funds (which Catholic Charities does in Illinois), in which case, no, they don’t get that option. If they don’t like the policy for receiving taxpayer money, then what they should do is stop receiving taxpayer money, not sue for an exception.<\/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 …. Americans For Prosperity Places Fake Eviction Notices On Detroit Homeowners\u2019 Doors To Scare Up Support | ThinkProgress – Stay classy, “Americans” for Prosperity! The 6 Most WTF Moments From Shakespeare Plays | Cracked.com – For all those folks who … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Jun-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":[361,718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24297,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/because-being-anti-science-is-a-winning-position-for-someone.html","url_meta":{"origin":21154,"position":0},"title":"Because being anti-science is a winning position … for someone","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 8:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A lengthy article from the National Journal on the (d)evolution in the GOP into a monolith that is -- outwardly at least -- silent at best and skeptical at worst over client change science. 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