{"id":1983,"date":"2009-10-30T01:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T07:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2009-10-30T01:14:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T07:14:37","slug":"thursday-linkorama-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Bruce Bartlett <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/28\/bruce-bartlett-answers-your-questions\/\">speaks<\/a>.  I agree with everything he says, especially about the Republican Party being brain dead.  It&#8217;s horrific to watch, especially in the conservative friends and family I know that are following them into the abyss.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2009\/10\/fight_the_intrusion_of_quackery_and_reli.php\">Nice<\/a>.  Pseudo-scientific woo like &#8220;therapeutic touch&#8221; is sneaking into the healthcare bill.  This will not only drive up expenses, but move money to fund bullshit.  Penn and Teller&#8217;s show had a great segment on Emily Rosa, the 11-year-old girl who proved TT was garbage.<\/li>\n<li>There is no excuse for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2009\/10\/27\/attorney-general-tries-to-silenc-school-choice-ad\/\">this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How PETA sees <a href=\"http:\/\/graphjam.com\/2009\/10\/29\/song-chart-memes-abuse-peta\/\">abuse<\/a>.  I have to agree (with the graph; not with PETA).<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s possible Massachusetts could replace Ted Kennedy with someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2009\/10\/23\/coakley_had_tough_time_in_case_before_supreme_court\/\">even worse<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Another &#8220;global warming is a myth&#8221; myth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y3dYhC_AlYw&#038;feature=player_embedded\">debunked<\/a>.  IN this case, it&#8217;s the &#8220;arctic ice is recovering&#8221; misrepresentation.<\/li>\n<li>More stadium <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-zirin29-2009oct29,0,5453451.story\">dumbassery<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Bartlett speaks. I agree with everything he says, especially about the Republican Party being brain dead. It&#8217;s horrific to watch, especially in the conservative friends and family I know that are following them into the abyss. Nice. Pseudo-scientific woo like &#8220;therapeutic touch&#8221; is sneaking into the healthcare bill. This will not only drive up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[17,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-vZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1992,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}