{"id":2388,"date":"2010-01-28T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:33:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T14:33:29","slug":"midweek-linkorama-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>I am always amazed by how <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencenow.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2010\/119\/2\">close<\/a> the human race has come to extinction in the past.<\/li>\n<li>How stupid are people?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14256926\">This stupid<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~jpittman2\/pacman\/pacmandossier.html\">logic of Pac-Man<\/a>.  Cool.<\/li>\n<li>Why am I not surprised that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2010\/01\/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html\">ACORN-busting<\/a> guy got pinched for breaking the law.<\/li>\n<li>Balko on <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/26\/the-forfeiture-racket\/\">assert forfeiture<\/a>. Scary stuff.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s rare that I link to American Progress, but their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2010\/01\/deficit_peacock.html\">guide<\/a> to identifying deficit &#8220;peacocks&#8221; is very interesting.  There&#8217;s simply no way we&#8217;re going to balance the budget without raising taxes. But Republicans are too wedded to mindless tax cut ideology and Democrats are too scared.<\/li>\n<li>How dare you discriminate against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/7079231\/Advert-for-reliable-workers-banned-as-discrimination-by-Jobcentre-Plus.html\">unreliable<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Man, do I love me some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/edrabbit\/galleries\/72157623103181304#photo_3381052078\">photography<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am always amazed by how close the human race has come to extinction in the past. How stupid are people? This stupid. The logic of Pac-Man. Cool. Why am I not surprised that the ACORN-busting guy got pinched for breaking the law. Balko on assert forfeiture. Scary stuff. It&#8217;s rare that I link to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[24,15,5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science","category-tax-and-spend"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Cw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","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=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}