{"id":21721,"date":"2011-07-25T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/unblogged-bits-mon-25-jul-11-1131.html"},"modified":"2011-07-25T11:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T17:31:04","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-25-jul-11-1131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/unblogged-bits-mon-25-jul-11-1131.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 25-Jul-11 1131)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>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\/ojiFeUY1BkI\/bawer-vs-bawer.html\">Bawer vs Bawer &#8211; The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;How can a mass murder be both right-wing <i>and<\/i> meaningless? There you have the cognitive dissonance of someone devoted to stopping terrorism only to find his own rhetoric may have played a part in motivating a terrorist.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Fun9gi3JWDA\/\">Triumph In Texas: State School Board Approves Sound-Science Materials \u00ab The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; And isn&#8217;t it sad that this is noteworthy?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/IlRcvx5YOmI\/\">Wyoming Coal Executives and Lawmakers Are Offended by Art Linking Coal,  Climate Change and Bark Beetle Infestation<\/a> &#8211; So these state lawmakers are being blatant enough to essentially say, &#8220;Coal companies give a lot of money to the school, so they shouldn&#8217;t be criticized by the school&#8221;?  Classy. And it says a lot about those lawmakers &#8230;<\/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;. Bawer vs Bawer &#8211; The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan &#8211; &#8220;How can a mass murder be both right-wing and meaningless? There you have the cognitive dissonance of someone devoted to stopping terrorism only to find his own rhetoric &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/25\/unblogged-bits-mon-25-jul-11-1131.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Mon. 25-Jul-11 1131)&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21721","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":49540,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/dont-drink-the-water.html","url_meta":{"origin":21721,"position":0},"title":"Don&#039;t Drink the Water","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Feb-15 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of course what West Virginia needs is precisely this:'A year after a toxic leak contaminated drinking water for 300,000 residents, West Virginia lawmakers are considering a series of proposals that would weaken a new chemical tank safety law, remove stronger pollution protections for streams across the state, and protect\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image.adapt.960.high5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image.adapt.960.high5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image.adapt.960.high5B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":135165,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/course-trump-wanted-change-denali-back-mckinley.html","url_meta":{"origin":21721,"position":1},"title":"Because OF COURSE Trump wanted to change Denali back to McKinley","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Oct-17 2:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I swear to God, if Obama had created National The-Sky-Is-Blue Day, Trump would overturn the order and make it National The-Sky-Is-Brown Day, just for spite. 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