{"id":22475,"date":"2011-09-01T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-1131.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:02:14","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-1131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-1131.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu.  1-Sep-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\/3U9EoqDkfQA\/\">Santorum Says Criticism Of His Views On Homosexuality Is \u2018An Act Of Bigotry\u2019 | ThinkProgress<\/a> &#8211; Santorum suffers from the curse of thinking his particular views are &#8220;normal&#8221; (and therefore &#8220;right&#8221;) in an era where they are ceasing to be the majority viewpoint.  Thus, he doesn&#8217;t see himself as bigoted because, well, that&#8217;s been what he says &#8220;2,000 years of human history and Western civilization&#8221; have previously believed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/uKsTGo7OLH4\/SB10001424053111904716604576542460736605364.html\">Waffle House Index Measures Hurricane Recovery &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to remember the Waffle House Scale.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/rm068Tx7jUE\/elementary_my_dear_watsoon.php\">Elementary, My Dear Watsoon<\/a> &#8211; Great.  From the same mentality that brought you &#8220;Syfy,&#8221; we now get &#8220;Cloo.&#8221;  I wonder why they didn&#8217;t go for &#8220;Slooth&#8221;?  Stupid &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/aPmIM66tNQw\/\">Nokia goes on patent offensive, transfers patents to troll company<\/a> &#8211; Lovely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/V1maahzfY0g\/9650583190\">It&#8217;s the magical, mystical changing JLI #1 cover!<\/a> &#8211; DC&#8217;s handling of this relaunch has been just plain goofy. For something into which so much planning has supposedly gone, here&#8217;s yet another case where they changed their minds, a couple of times, after going public with info.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/klKg11h05Ws\/why-you-wont-be-able-to-m.php\">Why you won&#8217;t be able to make your own Star Wars movie until 2072 | Blastr<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure that I&#8217;d be particularly eager to see a ton of derivative works from a public domain Star Wars &#8230; but I&#8217;m pretty sure that the continuing extension of copyright periods isn&#8217;t serving the purposes the Founders had in mind. I wonder why the Tea Partiers don&#8217;t get in a dudgeon about that?<\/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;. Santorum Says Criticism Of His Views On Homosexuality Is \u2018An Act Of Bigotry\u2019 | ThinkProgress &#8211; Santorum suffers from the curse of thinking his particular views are &#8220;normal&#8221; (and therefore &#8220;right&#8221;) in an era where they are ceasing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/unblogged-bits-thu-1-sep-11-1131.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Thu.  1-Sep-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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135983,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/rick-santorum-dolt.html","url_meta":{"origin":22475,"position":0},"title":"Rick Santorum Is a Dolt","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Mar-18 8:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"I would never suggest kids shouldn't learn CPR, but that's beside the point. 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