{"id":1707,"date":"2009-08-21T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2009-08-21T20:44:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T02:44:29","slug":"weekend-linkorama-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/08\/18\/square-circle-spiral\/\">Cool<\/a>.  My mind is bent.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/content\/view\/20892\/\">Good luck<\/a> with trying to privatize the post office.  The idea is right; the will is non-existent.<\/li>\n<li>Mints sent a guy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wftv.com\/irresistible\/20435114\/detail.html\">jail<\/a>?  Seriously?  Yet another triumph in our stupid War on Drugs.<\/li>\n<li>You stay classy, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/19\/unreal-msnbc-edits-clip-of-man-with-gun-at-obama-rally-to-support-racism-narrative\/\">MSNBC<\/a>.  Show guns at an Obama rally, imply racist murderous intent, neglect to mention that the man carrying the weapon was black.  Nicely done.<\/li>\n<li>I know how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2009\/08\/im-worried-im-becoming-a-moderate.html\">he feels<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Yes another study concludes that high-speed rail is a <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/21\/the-bottom-line-on-top-speed-trains\/\">boondoggle<\/a>.  But noting&#8217;s a boondoggle when it enriches powerful interests.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2009\/08\/le-illusion.html\">Le Illusion<\/a>.  As I said before, my patience with people who believe in &#8220;free&#8221; healthcare is limited.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, elements of the Right have gotten ridiculously silly about healthcare (death panels?  Really?)  But let it not be said that the Left is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/135584.html\">also<\/a> very very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oq_GbbMQuGU&#038;feature=player_embedded\">silly<\/a>. I propose that we lock all these people up in a small room and let them fight it out while the rest of us run the country.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool. My mind is bent. Good luck with trying to privatize the post office. The idea is right; the will is non-existent. Mints sent a guy to jail? Seriously? Yet another triumph in our stupid War on Drugs. You stay classy, MSNBC. Show guns at an Obama rally, imply racist murderous intent, neglect to mention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[15,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-rx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}