{"id":1054,"date":"2008-12-11T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2008-12-11T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T05:07:09","slug":"thursday-night-linkorama-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Night Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Apparently, AFL-CIO isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/11\/golden-arches-inspire-seiu-afl-cio-wrath\/\">quite sure<\/a> where the Home of the Whopper is.  Funny how it&#8217;s evil for McDonald&#8217;s to participate in the political process, but just fine for unions to.<\/li>\n<li>Who knew?  Jews wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/rudolph_the_jewishamerican_rei.php\">all the good Christmas songs<\/a>.  You can&#8217;t escape us.<\/li>\n<li>Another one from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Alphacat\">best Obama impersonator<\/a>.  The thing about his imitations is that he gets the key to Obama &#8212; his basic likability.  I heard Obama at a press conference this morning talking about the Blagojevich scandal (imagine, a President having frequent press conferences!) and he again came across as very sensible.  I&#8217;m probably going to oppose a lot of what Obama wants.  But I think I&#8217;ll continue to like him as a person.<\/li>\n<li>Saletan argues that funding Planned Parenthood is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/humannature\/archive\/2008\/12\/11\/the-pro-life-case-for-planned-parenthood.aspx\">pro-life thing<\/a>.  I agree partially &#8212; a lot of their money still goes to abortions.  But if your goal is decreasing abortions, supporting birth control is the most rational thing to do.  I can&#8217;t understand those who oppose it.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, AFL-CIO isn&#8217;t quite sure where the Home of the Whopper is. Funny how it&#8217;s evil for McDonald&#8217;s to participate in the political process, but just fine for unions to. Who knew? Jews wrote all the good Christmas songs. You can&#8217;t escape us. Another one from the best Obama impersonator. The thing about his imitations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-h0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","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=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}