{"id":22334,"date":"2011-08-23T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/unblogged-bits-tue-23-aug-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2011-08-23T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T05:30:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-23-aug-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/unblogged-bits-tue-23-aug-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 23-Aug-11 2330)"},"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\/sq1q-KV7Epg\/gIQAGJwBVJ_print.html\">Don\u2019t kill America\u2019s databook &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> &#8211; More penny-wise \/ pound-foolishness. Or, to quote another source, &#8220;Knowledge is Power.&#8221;  And you can&#8217;t have knowledge unless the information is accessible and usable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/oaDIBxv2xzM\/\">\u201cPregnancy is Not a Disease\u201d: Birth of an Anti-Contraception Rallying Cry | Sexuality\/Gender | Religion Dispatches<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting history here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/c2hTXpqP8io\/110823.html\">Priorities &#8211; RLC strip for August \/ 23 \/ 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/xjfSSDLuQ24\/fischer-asking-me-about-my-bigotry-gotcha-journalism\">Fischer: Asking Me About My Bigotry Is &#8220;Gotcha Journalism&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; He&#8217;s not only a dolt, he&#8217;s a cowardly dolt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/m0zo2khHX1g\/bakker-and-jacobs-claim-have-prophesied-september-11th-attacks\">Bakker And Jacobs Claim To Have Prophesied September 11th Attacks<\/a> &#8211; Y&#8217;know, I&#8217;d be a whole lot more convinced of their prophetic powers if they&#8217;d been actually detailed enough to be actionable &#8230; a date &#8230; a flight number &#8230; even just a plane flying into the WTC or the Pentagon.  Show me that, Jim, rather than vague &#8220;Terror in New York with people running!&#8221; and then we&#8217;ll talk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ACp9pLyt0Jo\/10-totally-different-tv-shows-that-doctor-who-has-been-over-the-years\">10 Totally Different TV Shows that Doctor Who Has Been Over the Years<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/SzamAV8sGtk\/\">Tea Party Makes Me Feel Sorry For The Onion: Eli<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/TOaodwMfllc\/\">What Really Happened to the National Cathedral in the Quake &#8211; National &#8211; The Atlantic Wire<\/a> &#8211; Yikes! That&#8217;s not good.<\/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;. Don\u2019t kill America\u2019s databook &#8211; The Washington Post &#8211; More penny-wise \/ pound-foolishness. Or, to quote another source, &#8220;Knowledge is Power.&#8221; And you can&#8217;t have knowledge unless the information is accessible and usable. \u201cPregnancy is Not a Disease\u201d: Birth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/unblogged-bits-tue-23-aug-11-2330.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Tue. 23-Aug-11 2330)&#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-22334","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":49793,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/knowledge-is-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":22334,"position":0},"title":"Knowledge Is Power","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Mar-15 11:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At the risk of embarrassing +Kay Hill, I thought her freshman essay (by way of website) on knowledge, freedom, and tyranny, by way of Little Brother and 1984, was pretty darned cool. knowledge-is-power View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17403,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/because-knowledge-is-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":22334,"position":1},"title":"Because Knowledge is Power!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-May-10 10:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Created by Oatmeal","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128238,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/05\/in-fighting-gun-violence-knowledge-is-power.html","url_meta":{"origin":22334,"position":2},"title":"In fighting gun violence, knowledge is power","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Oct-15 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is one reason why the gun lobby is so keen to keep knowledge about gun deaths and injuries to a minimum, let alone addressing gun violence as a public health issue (besides vague handwaving about \"the crazies\").The article's \"new way\" isn't all that new, but it's useful. 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