{"id":1451,"date":"2009-06-03T06:18:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2009-06-03T06:18:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:18:27","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff on the tubes:<\/p>\n<li>The WSJ on <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124355502499664627.html\">empathy<\/a>.  The reason we have laws and a Constitution is precisely so that people <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> make decisions based on emotion &#8212; which is an unreliable guide at best.<\/li>\n<li>Obama and the Democrats are contemplating an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/06\/01\/photos\/index.html\">outrageous<\/a> expansion of federal discretionary power.  Kudo to Greenwald for not selling out to the Hope and Change Express.<\/li>\n<li>Why does Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/06\/kristol-and-hume-call-for-targeted-air-strikes-on-north-korea.php\">Kristol<\/a> still get media appearances?  He&#8217;s a disgrace.  He&#8217;s just wrong about <i>everything<\/i>.  If a blogger were as wildly ignorant as Kristol is, his traffic would crater.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=10256\">Sweeeet<\/a>. Taxpayers are auditing school districts &#8212; and finding millions in waste.  <i>That&#8217;s<\/i> change we can believe in.<\/li>\n<li>Isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/05\/28\/accountants-helping-banks_n_208580.html\">this sort of thing<\/a> how we got an economic crisis in the first place?<\/li>\n<li>Lithwick defends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2219253\">Clarence Thomas<\/a>.  The meme in liberal circles that Thomas is an idiot puppet of Scalia is one of the most ignorant &#8212; and quietly racist &#8212; of the movement.  The thinking seems to be that since he&#8217;s black and not liberal, he must be a moron.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/story\/cms.php?story_id=4944&#038;page=0\">reality<\/a> of child soldiers.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, there&#8217;s a lot of good stuff on the tubes: The WSJ on empathy. The reason we have laws and a Constitution is precisely so that people don&#8217;t make decisions based on emotion &#8212; which is an unreliable guide at best. Obama and the Democrats are contemplating an outrageous expansion of federal discretionary power. Kudo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1451\" 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":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}