{"id":21511,"date":"2011-07-08T23:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T05:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-2331.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:11:10","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri.  8-Jul-11 2331)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/W7D4lgtuHGs\/10_great_things_you_might_know_troy_mcclure_from.php\">10 Great Things You Might Know Troy McClure From &#8211; Topless Robot<\/a> &#8211; I miss Troy. And Phil.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/zg-l3mTlB1w\/\">Google Maps For Android Now Lets You Download Maps For Offline Viewing  (Hallelujah!)<\/a> &#8211; That would have come in handy in Italy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/w1MfDzZXbbU\/ci_18438176\">Texas governor defends Mexican&#8217;s execution &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a> &#8211; I certainly will not stand in defense of Leal, who admitted his guilt.  But justice is not just about the individual, but about the system, and Texas&#8217; actions here threaten Americans abroad.  Yeah, I know it&#8217;s not popular to consider &#8220;foreign opinion&#8221; and &#8220;treaties&#8221; &#8212; but being a dick about it is kind of stupid.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/hkgjrNq_VU4\/all-modern-politics-one-chart\">All of Modern Politics in One Chart | Mother Jones<\/a> &#8211; <strong>sigh<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/XJp0H89yWU4\/ten-ways-to-keep-a-long+term-character-from-being-hated\">Ten Ways to Keep a Long-Term Character From Being Hated<\/a> &#8211; Though this focuses on TV, I&#8217;d say that it applies to book series, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/suBfx7ds0nw\/\">The Legion of Art Nouveau Heroes [Friday Gallery]<\/a> &#8211; Some of these are (much) better than others, and they all owe a debt to Mucha &#8230; and there are certainly some posters or t-shirts there that I&#8217;d buy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ECcq8bZ0BCI\/\">Irony Alert: Host of \u201cWorst Driver\u201d Reality Show Run Over by Contestant<\/a> &#8211; I think it should be required that Reality Show hosts have the opportunity to get into just as much trouble  as the contestants &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/RZ1d2lfxTAc\/watch\">YouTube &#8211; \u202aSwamp Ass PSA starring Nathan Fillion<\/a> &#8211; Don&#8217;t let this tragedy strike you.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/aTBKUL3TWJk\/\">Fracking Fatally Destroys Forests In As Little As Two Days<\/a> &#8211; The oil must flow!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/vvdhDNJzJVs\/tsa-agent-stole-5000.html\">TSA agent stole $50,000 of fliers&#8217; stuff<\/a> &#8211; I feel safer!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Yu0lrzeoR94\/execution-texas-despite-so-much\">Execution in Texas, Despite So Much<\/a> &#8211; Because, of course, Rick Perry stands for a &#8220;culture of life.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/x4RBQcS9sGY\/liberty_counsel_the_aclu_and_a.php\">Liberty Counsel, the ACLU and Attorney Fees : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> &#8211; Follow the money.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/swIDIlYz6uA\/devil_take_the_hindmost_as_pub_1.php\">Devil Take the Hindmost As Public Policy: What Deficit Reduction Really  Looks Like [Mike the Mad Biologist]<\/a> &#8211; Well, better that a schizophrenic bipolar woman who&#8217;s enrolled in a psych rehab program be inconvenienced in traveling there, than that ExxonMobil&#8217;s corporate jet be taxed at a higher rate.  I mean, PRIORITIES, after all.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/qKHi40xMAs0\/\">The History of the Space Shuttle &#8211; Alan Taylor &#8211; In Focus &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a> &#8211; Some amazing photos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/0lvwYfiqcl8\/\">Who Would Jesus Starve? | Religion Dispatches<\/a> &#8211; The (well, <strong>a<\/strong>) fundamental flaw in Barton, et al.&#8217;s, analysis, is that, unlike a Biblical kingdom, in a democracy, <strong>WE<\/strong> are the government.  Government is not imposed from without, but expressed from within.  And if we, as individuals, have a moral responsibility to take care of the poor, then we have a moral responsibility to do so collectively as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. 10 Great Things You Might Know Troy McClure From &#8211; Topless Robot &#8211; I miss Troy. And Phil. Google Maps For Android Now Lets You Download Maps For Offline Viewing (Hallelujah!) &#8211; That would have come in handy in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/08\/unblogged-bits-fri-8-jul-11-2331.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Fri.  8-Jul-11 2331)&#8221;<\/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":[715,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38453,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/im-troy-mcclure-you-may-remember-me-from.html","url_meta":{"origin":21511,"position":0},"title":"&quot;I&#39;m Troy McClure. 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