{"id":2060,"date":"2009-11-14T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2009-11-14T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T20:52:32","slug":"weekend-linkorama-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2060","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>You must watch Newsweek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/2010.newsweek.com\/video\/decade-in-seven-minutes.html\">the decade in seven minutes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The GOP continues to implode.  Now they want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9BTDPE81&#038;show_article=1&#038;catnum=0\">censure<\/a> Linday Graham.  As I keep saying at the other blog, the RINOs were not the GOPs problem.  It was the so-called hardcore loyal conservatives who rallied behind massive spending, corruption and torture.<\/li>\n<li>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordinary-gentlemen.com\/2009\/11\/the-evolution-of-blogging-an-interview-with-charles-johnson\/\">he said<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/life\/feature\/2009\/11\/10\/recovering_republican\/index.html\">him<\/a>, to some extent.  I don&#8217;t like many of the policies the Democrats are implementing and think the party as a whole suffers from a dangerous amount of hubris.  But I&#8217;m tired of the outrage, the crackpot theories, the glib comparisons to the USSR.  What the hell happened to these people?<\/li>\n<li>It seems to me that the environmentalists still haven&#8217;t learned how to maximize the ratio of gain to pain.  Making everyone <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125807041772846273.html#project%3DPOWERSHIFT0911%26articleTabs%3Darticle\">dirty, smelly and miserable<\/a> to save a few gallons of water seems poorly thought out.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/education\/article6913318.ece\">Computers<\/a>. Meh. What do they know?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/11\/09\/taking_liberties\/entry5595506.shtml\">This<\/a> is disturbing.  What&#8217;s the point of electing Democrats if they&#8217;re going to go all uber-law-and-order on us?  Remember when they used to protect civil liberties?<\/li>\n<li>The latest TSA madness &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/11\/14\/tsa-bans-snowglobes.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:%20boingboing\/iBag%20(Boing%20Boing)&#038;utm_content=Google%20Reader\">snowglobes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Don Boudreaux <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/11\/14\/tsa-bans-snowglobes.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:%20boingboing\/iBag%20(Boing%20Boing)&#038;utm_content=Google%20Reader\">destroys<\/a> Paul Krugman&#8217;s glib assertion that labor market controls will bring down unempoyment.  I must admit to being baffled by Krugman&#8217;s post.  He does now that you need n>1 data points to reach a conclusion, yes?  Yes?  No.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must watch Newsweek&#8217;s the decade in seven minutes. The GOP continues to implode. Now they want to censure Linday Graham. As I keep saying at the other blog, the RINOs were not the GOPs problem. It was the so-called hardcore loyal conservatives who rallied behind massive spending, corruption and torture. What he said. 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