{"id":1011,"date":"2008-11-11T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2008-11-12T00:18:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T06:18:12","slug":"tuesday-night-linkorama-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Night Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Raise your hand if you are surprised that the Dems are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122628143512612399.html\">abandoning<\/a> PAYGO.  Obama&#8217;s first test will be showing fiscal restraint.<\/li>\n<li>PJ gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=9782\">depressed<\/a> about how conservatives blew it.  I&#8217;m so fed up with the GOP these days.<\/li>\n<li>Criticizing Obama for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2008\/11\/11\/im-surprised-it-took-that-long\/\">lying<\/a> is like criticizing him for breathing.  He&#8217;s a politician; it comes with the territory.  What did you expect?  Change?<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/ThomasSowell\/2008\/11\/11\/intellectuals\">great article<\/a> from Sowell about the difference between seeming to be intellectual and actually <i>being<\/i> intellectual.  I blog with a sharp skilled writer who never went to college.  I work in an environment filled with &#8220;intellectuals&#8221; with fancy degrees, little common sense and, often, an inability to navigate the English language.  I couldn&#8217;t agree more with Sowell.  Almost everything important I learned in life; almost all my knowledge of economics, history, sociology, politics and science &#8212; came <i>after<\/i> I got my fancy degrees.<\/li>\n<li>Hitch takes some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2204240\/\">starch<\/a> out of the Obameuphoria.  You know, we woke up on Wednesday with the same problems we went to bed with on Tuesday.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raise your hand if you are surprised that the Dems are abandoning PAYGO. Obama&#8217;s first test will be showing fiscal restraint. PJ gets depressed about how conservatives blew it. I&#8217;m so fed up with the GOP these days. Criticizing Obama for lying is like criticizing him for breathing. He&#8217;s a politician; it comes with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday Night Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-gj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}