{"id":21160,"date":"2011-06-08T23:30:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-jun-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-06-08T23:30:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T05:30:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-8-jun-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/unblogged-bits-wed-8-jun-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Jun-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. Ryan LeVin’s hit-and-run sentence is beyond outrageous — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com<\/a> – It’s the final paragraph of the story that makes this whole thing even more maddeningly outrageous.<\/li>\n
  2. While Demanding Weiner\u2019s Resignation, RNC Chairman Refuses To Discuss Vitter Prostitution Scandal | ThinkProgress<\/a> – “Priebus is right to call for a high ethical standard for political leaders, but his indignation would ring less hollow if he applied the same standard to those in his own party as well.”<\/li>\n
  3. Current test-based incentive programs have not consistently raised<\/a> – I’m shocked, shocked to discover that using standardized tests to incent students, schools, and teachers based on rewards or punishments doesn’t seem actually do anything to improve academic achievement. It’s almost like, oh, I don’t know, education is COMPLICATED.<\/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 …. Ryan LeVin’s hit-and-run sentence is beyond outrageous — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com – It’s the final paragraph of the story that makes this whole thing even more maddeningly outrageous. While Demanding Weiner\u2019s Resignation, RNC Chairman Refuses To Discuss Vitter Prostitution … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 8-Jun-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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21160","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":41411,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/ann-coulter-veers-from-zany-to-creepy.html","url_meta":{"origin":21160,"position":0},"title":"Ann Coulter veers from zany to creepy","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Mar-14 11:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I mean ... really? \u00a0\"Crazier than a soup sandwich\" comes to mind.Yeah, I know -- I try not to talk about Ann Coulter much because there's the distinct impression that she just says insanely outrageous things to drive her fame and fortune and book deals and speaking engagements.\u00a0But there are\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":27707,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/beat-the-gay-out-of-your-kids-aw-i-was-just-joking.html","url_meta":{"origin":21160,"position":1},"title":""Beat the gay out of your kids? 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