{"id":238,"date":"2007-05-23T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-05-23T16:42:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T22:42:29","slug":"linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on two big posts on immigration.  In the meantime&#8230;.<\/p>\n<li>Why I&#8217;m sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familybadge.org\/index.cfm\/act\/newsletter.cfm\/category\/texas%20police%20news\/menuitemid\/112\/Startrow\/6\/MenuGroup\/Home\/NewsletterID\/18443.htm\">embarassed<\/a> to life in Texas.\n<\/li>\n<li>Yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/article\/0,,11000-2007230354,00.html\">right<\/a>.  I call BS.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn a recent study, sociologist Diane Felmee found only a third of women said looks were the first thing that attracted them to a man. Most preferred a sense of humour or financial and career success.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has never been my experience.  And I mean ever.  I have known precisely one woman in my life who preferred geeky men.  She was also my first girlfriend (and eventually moved on to better looking ones).<\/p>\n<p>No, these are women who want to have their cake and eat it, too.  When they&#8217;re young, they want to have sex with hot men.  And now that they&#8217;re older, they want to settle down with the other ones.  And the plain or ugly men are supposed to settle for never having a wild and crazy youth.  Garbage.<\/li>\n<li>Johns Stossel breaks out the nun-chucks on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/the_many_myths_of_ethanol.html\">ethanol<\/a>.  If you&#8217;ve read my blog (cue crickets chirping), you know how I feel about this boondoggle. On this blog, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on two big posts on immigration. In the meantime&#8230;. Why I&#8217;m sometimes embarassed to life in Texas. Yeah, right. I call BS. In a recent study, sociologist Diane Felmee found only a third of women said looks were the first thing that attracted them to a man. Most preferred a sense of humour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">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":[6,12,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-war","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-3Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}