{"id":1735,"date":"2009-09-02T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2009-09-02T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T13:04:18","slug":"midweek-linkorama-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1735","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  • An Oldie<\/a> from Greenwald about political dynasties. Although he conspicuously leaves off Ted Kennedy from criticism.<\/li>\n
  • Speaking of Kennedy, the hagiography is getting a bit much. Check out Donald Boudreaux here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>. For my part, I can’t get over his attempt to work with the Soviets<\/a> to undermine the President, an act that comes dangerously close to treason in my book.<\/li>\n
  • A wonderful response<\/a> to the people telling us that it’s bad when people can afford food, clothing and shelter. Don’t waste your liberal guilt on me.<\/li>\n
  • Andrew Sullivan smashes<\/a> the torture defenders. I’ve disagreed with a lot lately, but this one is a return to form. More here<\/a>, including a deconstruction of the notion that waterboarding isn’t torture.<\/li>\n
  • One of the issues I’ve moved leftward on is the death penalty. I used to support it, now I oppose it. Stories like this<\/a> are why. What happened in this trial is not unusual at all.<\/li>\n
  • E-fucking-gad<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • It’s no surprise to me that we are at a low point<\/a> in violent conflict. The idyllic picture of primitive societies is fictional and causes much stupidity<\/a> from Right and Left.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    An Oldie from Greenwald about political dynasties. Although he conspicuously leaves off Ted Kennedy from criticism. Speaking of Kennedy, the hagiography is getting a bit much. Check out Donald Boudreaux here, here and here. For my part, I can’t get over his attempt to work with the Soviets to undermine the President, an act that … Continue reading Midweek Linkorama<\/span> →<\/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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-rZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","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=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}