{"id":1047,"date":"2008-12-04T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2008-12-04T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:51:02","slug":"thursday-morning-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ugh. So much going on. So little time to write about it.<\/p>\n

  • Freakonomics<\/a> reminds us that the government is not one to lecture the big three about unfunded pension liability. Not when staring down the $50 trillion throat of Social Security and Medicare.<\/li>\n
  • A devastating account<\/a> of what torture does to our soldiers.<\/li>\n
  • Cato takes on the idea that college<\/a> is a financial burden. $20,000 worth of debt seems reasonable for an education. But I’d forgotten that we don’t expect people to pay their debts anymore.<\/li>\n
  • Orac<\/a> talks about the long waits for mammograms. Between greedy lawyers and greedier insurance companies, the margin on mammography is disappearing. Does anyone care? Or are they too busy planning a government takeover of health care to introduce even more<\/i> rationing?<\/li>\n
  • No, Virginia, the government can’t really<\/a> cure a recession — not even with tax cuts.<\/li>\n
  • Free Plaxico Burress<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  • Free internet<\/a>? Gee, I’m sure there won’t be any unintended consequences there. Since when did internet access become an inalienable right? Trial by jury, right to bear arms, free speech … at least 3 Mb\/s? Whatever.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Ugh. So much going on. So little time to write about it. Freakonomics reminds us that the government is not one to lecture the big three about unfunded pension liability. Not when staring down the $50 trillion throat of Social Security and Medicare. A devastating account of what torture does to our soldiers. Cato takes … Continue reading Thursday Morning Linkorama<\/span> →<\/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-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-gT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","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=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}