{"id":21774,"date":"2011-07-31T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T11:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/unblogged-bits-sun-31-jul-11-0531.html"},"modified":"2011-07-31T05:31:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T11:31:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-31-jul-11-0531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/31\/unblogged-bits-sun-31-jul-11-0531.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 31-Jul-11 0531)"},"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. Newsarama.com : Hugo Award Winning GIRL GENIUS<\/a> – Love this comic.<\/li>\n
  2. Sometimes All You Have is a Great Title: Cowboys & Aliens | Tor.com<\/a> – Yup.<\/li>\n
  3. Slip n Slide FAIL<\/a> – Heh. Physics is a bitch.<\/li>\n
  4. The Centrist Cop-Out<\/a> – I’ve been someone who’s long admired coalition-building, compromise, and centrism. But when the other side keeps moving where the center is further and further away, adopting a centrist attitude is simply taking up where the other side used to be not long ago. At best, it’s being fooled by a tactic. At worst, it’s simply encouraging still more extremist behavior.<\/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 …. Newsarama.com : Hugo Award Winning GIRL GENIUS – Love this comic. Sometimes All You Have is a Great Title: Cowboys & Aliens | Tor.com – Yup. Slip n Slide FAIL – Heh. Physics is a bitch. The Centrist Cop-Out … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 31-Jul-11 0531)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-21774","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":133307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/this-is-not-how-the-democrats-will-win.html","url_meta":{"origin":21774,"position":0},"title":"This is not how the Democrats will win","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Apr-17 10:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"So I realize that campaign money is not an unlimited resource. 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If so, and if it stays in the public eye for several more months, it's going to have to hurt the GOP presidential candidate -- and, by extension, the rest of the party. #ddtb Embedded Link Centrist\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":12058,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/to_the_right_ever_to_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":21774,"position":5},"title":"“To the Right … ever to the Right …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Nov-07 11:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Watching, from my hotel, the Republican \/ YouTube debate. Yeesh. Not sure if the questions were scarier, or the answers. 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