{"id":2498,"date":"2010-02-22T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T23:14:54","slug":"monday-linkorama-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Monday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/stories\/2010\/feb\/17\/meet-flintstones\/\">good reason<\/a> for me to not regret moving from Texas.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2245188\/\">scary story<\/a> about the US government poisoning the alcohol supply during prohibition. Ironically, however, this makes me more skeptical of conspiracy theories.  If they can&#8217;t keep killing 10,000 citizens quiet, how are they supposed to keep aliens quiet?<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/conorfriedersdorf\/2010\/02\/17\/the-best-of-journalism-2009\/\">best journalism<\/a> of 2009.  The first story, about parents leaving their kids in cars, is one of the most wrenching stories I&#8217;ve ever read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202443853096\">Nice<\/a>.  Congress is using the Toyota acceleration problems to bypass confidentiality for their buddy lawyers who are suing Toyota on other issues.<\/li>\n<li>Liz Cheney.  <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/77231\/an-open-letter-to-liz-cheney-on-torture\">pwned<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also, there&#8217;s been another <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/21\/oh-my-another-top-ten-most-wanted-taliban-leader-captured-in-pakistan\/\">big Taliban capture<\/a> for our weak President who is losing the War on Terror.  I mean, just in case your opinion of the WOT was influenced by reality.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m all in favor of laws that prevent airlines from keeping passengers trapped on runways for hours on end.  But the current rules have encourages airlines to simply <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wltx.com\/news\/story.aspx?storyid=84083&#038;catid=299\">cancel<\/a> delayed flights.  What Law of Unintended Consequences?<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s possible that Texas will soon execute <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/22\/is-texas-about-to-execute-anot\">another innocent man<\/a>.  Or not.  Without testing, there&#8217;s no way to tell.  At some point, does Governor Perry have any shame?<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good reason for me to not regret moving from Texas. A scary story about the US government poisoning the alcohol supply during prohibition. Ironically, however, this makes me more skeptical of conspiracy theories. If they can&#8217;t keep killing 10,000 citizens quiet, how are they supposed to keep aliens quiet? The best journalism of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[6,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ei","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","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=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}