{"id":1531,"date":"2009-06-30T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T20:49:54","slug":"monday-linkorama-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"Monday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>The stimulus package is starting to look worse and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=amp5wXx35fkc\">worse<\/a>.  This big story of the second half of this year will be the media slowly awakening to how big a cesspool of corruption it was.  If only we had a party to take advantage of that that wasn&#8217;t filled with religious pinheads.<\/li>\n<li>At the risk of being labelled a pinko communist liberal, I have to agree that <a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/juvenile_life_without_parole_jlwop.php\">Juvenile Life Without Parole<\/a> should only be reserved for the most heinous of crimes.  A rape at age 13 crosses me as a good reason to lock someone up for a long time &#8212; but for the rest of their life?<\/li>\n<li>If find <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/06\/can_we_save_this_village.html\">this post<\/a> from Ezra Klein (and the comments) to be hilarious.  Our system of government is designed to slow change, to avoid radical action.  Apparently, that&#8217;s a good thing when conservatives are in charge, bad when liberals are in charge.  And it&#8217;s especially bad if the slowness of the system allows legitimate criticism and public concern to derail bad legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Prediction: in the end, the Iranian regime will turn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/meast\/06\/29\/iran.neda.ahmadinejad\/index.html\">Neda<\/a> into a martyr &#8230; for <i>their<\/i> side.  The similarities between the old Communists and the Islamists continue to grow.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stimulus package is starting to look worse and worse. This big story of the second half of this year will be the media slowly awakening to how big a cesspool of corruption it was. If only we had a party to take advantage of that that wasn&#8217;t filled with religious pinheads. At the risk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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-1531","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-oH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","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=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}