{"id":22344,"date":"2011-08-24T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-wed-24-aug-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2014-11-14T20:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T03:28:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-24-aug-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-wed-24-aug-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 24-Aug-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. Ron Paul\u2019s Strange Freedom | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Better to for the media to publicize (and mock) Paul’s zany and dangerous ideas than to simply decide that, despite support in polls and other early campaign activities, Paul should simply be ignored. That’s making the news, not reporting the news.<\/li>\n
  2. Since 9\/11, Koch Industries has fought against tougher government rules on chemical plants<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. National Zoo Animals React to the Earthquake – National Zoo| FONZ<\/a> – “According to keepers, the giant pandas did not appear to respond to the earthquake.” Ha!<\/li>\n
  4. Disney Parks Mobile Magic App Now Free for Verizon Customers | The Disney Blog<\/a> – Spiffy. Now, if only I were going to a Disney park some time soon.<\/li>\n
  5. Case closed: \u201cClimategate\u201d was manufactured | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine<\/a> – “Those are simply the facts. It\u2019s not hard to connect them, as long as you stick to reality and don\u2019t let ideology sway you.” Yeah, well, there’s the problem.<\/li>\n
  6. Joe. My. God.: FLORIDA: Suspended Anti-Gay Teacher Defends Facebook “Cesspool” Rant<\/a> – The issue here is not a matter of whether the teacher has the right to free speech, but how his speech affects his work environment. It’s an uncomfortable tension between free speech and the consequences thereof. For all his language about “respecting” and “loving” all his students, his language about same-sex unions making him nauseous and gay relationships being a “cesspool” also speak loudly. If he had said this about Christians, I suspect the Liberty Counsel would have been calling for his head.<\/li>\n
  7. The 2012 despair of the right’s intelligentsia<\/a> – I would give them a Nelson Laugh, except that those are the GOP candidates — and possible President — that all of us are stuck with, too.<\/li>\n
  8. The politics of an earthquake<\/a> – “Indeed, if we’re going to have a substantive discussion about politics, policy, and natural disasters, perhaps the better place to start would be with Republican efforts to cut funding for the U.S. Geological Survey, which monitors earthquakes, and mocking investments in studying seismic activities.”<\/li>\n
  9. Time spent using Tupperware – The Oatmeal<\/a> – Yup. Esp. these days, when so many things come in Tupperware-like, reusable, sealable, not-quite-compatible containers. Because you can’t throw them away, because that would be wasteful!<\/li>\n
  10. What\u2019s Obama Reading? – Tevi Troy – National Review Online<\/a> – Oh, for crying out loud. I didn’t care for armchair-over-psychoanalyzing when it was Dubya, and I care for it even less when it’s Obama. I think it’s a Good Thing if Obama is reading some non-fiction, some mysteries, some things he can enjoy, some things not directly involved in being President. Heaven knows he’s still dealing with that role, 24×7, on “vacation” or not.<\/li>\n
  11. History\u2019s End In Tripoli<\/a> – Interesting. And not something particularly visible (almost by definition).<\/li>\n
  12. Political Animal – Rick Perry and \u2018The 5,000 Year Leap\u2019<\/a> – The man who would be President …<\/li>\n
  13. 527 – The St. Michael Line: a Straight Story?<\/a> – I’ve actually been to several of the sites listed (hill forts, stone circles, barrows and the like are a dime a dozen in the West Country, though still cool for all that).<\/li>\n
  14. Star Trek Cat Tree<\/a> – Hmmmmm …<\/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 …. Ron Paul\u2019s Strange Freedom | ThinkProgress – Better to for the media to publicize (and mock) Paul’s zany and dangerous ideas than to simply decide that, despite support in polls and other early campaign activities, Paul should simply be … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 24-Aug-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":[35,748,263,99,63,108,25,358,16,46,360,26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-disney","category-elections-2012","category-environment","category-history","category-gay-stuff","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-school-daze","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-travel","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15577,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/teh-cute.html","url_meta":{"origin":22344,"position":0},"title":"TEH CUTE!!!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 13-Aug-09 9:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Four Red Pandas born at the Denver Zoo. 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Fire! TIDAL WAVE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Mar-11 5:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"I am trying to remember the cartoon that had, as some sort of tag line for imminent disaster, the title of this post. This would have been early\/mid 1970s (the animation style I recall, showing each successive disaster in turn, was very Schoolhouse Rock-ish). 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