{"id":21502,"date":"2011-07-08T11:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-07-08T11:30:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T17:30:51","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 8-Jul-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. Consistent Conservative: Delaware Blogger Opposes Government-Sponsored Sectarian Prayer \u00ab The Wall of Separation<\/a> – For too many “conservatives,” conservatism is more about keeping things as they were (or as we’d like to think they were), rather than about personal freedom or small government, etc. Thus, church-state entanglement is an appeal to a simpler time, and to an authority by which to beat back social changes that have occurred in the last half-century. It’s reactionary, not classically conservative.<\/li>\n
  2. Republicans Set to Repeal Light Bulb Efficiency Standard That Would Save Consumers $12 Billion a Year | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Dolts.<\/li>\n
  3. NASA – Composer Debuts Fanfare Honoring Final Shuttle Mission<\/a> – Cool. Now I want to hear it.<\/li>\n
  4. “A Declaration of Dependence Upon MARRIAGE and FAMiLY” | Religion Dispatches<\/a> – Wow. Some serious doltitude here. I may need to do a blog post about it myself.<\/li>\n
  5. Artificial Stupids | Orbit Books<\/a> – Charles Stross on the unlikelihood (and other problems) of artificial intelligence as commonly found in SF tropes.<\/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 …. Consistent Conservative: Delaware Blogger Opposes Government-Sponsored Sectarian Prayer \u00ab The Wall of Separation – For too many “conservatives,” conservatism is more about keeping things as they were (or as we’d like to think they were), rather than about personal … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 8-Jul-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_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-21502","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":24852,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/26\/obama-as-the-conservative-candidate.html","url_meta":{"origin":21502,"position":0},"title":"Obama as the "conservative" candidate","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Dec-11 11:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"In this case, Steve Benan notes, not in terms of Obama holding center or center-right positions, but because he's the one working to preserve a century-plus-long consensus as to the role of government (see the Preamble to the Constitution), vs. a GOP slate that wants to overturn that in favor\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":27890,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/gay-rights-are-a-conservative-value.html","url_meta":{"origin":21502,"position":1},"title":"Gay rights are a conservative value","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 12-May-12 10:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really. 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