{"id":1348,"date":"2009-04-28T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2009-04-28T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T15:04:59","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Your torture link of the day.  Scott Horton runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-04-27\/myth-and-reality-about-torture\/full\/\">myths<\/a> to ground.  I wish the torture defenders could make up their minds.  Either Bush authorized torture or he didn&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t, on the one hand, give him credit for keeping the nation safe; and, on the other hand, absolve him of all blame for Abu Ghraib.<\/li>\n<li>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/365daysofastronomy.org\/\">Cameron<\/a> destroys the 2012 apocalypse myth.<\/li>\n<li>The Obama Administration is pushing against the rule that you stop questioning a suspect after he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/northamerica\/usa\/barackobama\/5214985\/Barack-Obama-administration-seeks-to-change-police-questioning-law.html\">asks for a lawyer<\/a>.  Remember when Democrats cared about civil liberties?  I miss those days.  What&#8217;s the point of electing Democrats if they&#8217;re going to be &#8220;tough on crime&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>There are two times when a woman can not be held responsible for anything she says.  When she&#8217;s making a baby and when she&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/22\/AR2009042203635.html?hpid=news-col-blog\">having one<\/a>.  To threaten to take someone&#8217;s child because she said something dumb after labor is just bizarre.<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Carter, a man I try very hard to respect, gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/133129.html\">dumb<\/a> about supporting the assault weapons ban.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your torture link of the day. Scott Horton runs the myths to ground. I wish the torture defenders could make up their minds. Either Bush authorized torture or he didn&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t, on the one hand, give him credit for keeping the nation safe; and, on the other hand, absolve him of all blame for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1348\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[14,5,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-politics","category-science","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-lK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","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=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}