{"id":2537,"date":"2010-03-02T17:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2537"},"modified":"2010-03-02T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:01:25","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2537","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Sting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/lostinshowbiz\/2010\/feb\/22\/sting-uzbekistan\">Hypocrite<\/a>.  Note also the story of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aral_sea\">Aral Sea<\/a>.  The article blames its destruction on the current Uzbek dictator, but this was mostly the work of the Soviet Union &#8212; that wonderful, charming nation whose evil many on the Left (like Sting) were hesitant to acknowledge.<\/li>\n<li>The fuck of it is that most bureaucrats won&#8217;t see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/24\/county-pulls-plug-on-free-coffee-doughnuts-at\/\">this<\/a> as unreasonable.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/bramblitt.net\/\">blind painter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Bernanke fires a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/25\/bernanke-delivers-warning-on-us-debt\/\">warning shot<\/a> across Congress&#8217; bow on the deficit.  I am really beginning to wonder if a default and inflation lie in our future.  Is anyone in Washington prepared to make hard choices?<\/li>\n<li>The latest on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/02\/ff_ug99_fungus\/\">wheat rust<\/a>.  This scares me.<\/li>\n<li>The war against resistant bacteria <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/01\/11\/1420165\/norway-conquers-infections-by.html\">continues<\/a>. This is one of the biggest health crises looming over our heads. My biggest fear of healthcare reform is that it will hamstring the innovation we need to prevent the next plague.<\/li>\n<li>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/03\/liberals-and-atheists-are-more-intelligent-ctd.html\">this take<\/a> on why liberals and atheists have higher IQs is right.  High IQ makes you intellectually wander from the default culture.<\/li>\n<li>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2245891\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">this link<\/a> on the sound of antique pianos.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s so <a href=\"http:\/\/graphjam.com\/2010\/03\/02\/funny-graphs-tv-censorship\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+graphjam+%28GraphJam%3A+Pop+culture+for+people+in+cubicles.%29\">true<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sting. Hypocrite. Note also the story of the Aral Sea. The article blames its destruction on the current Uzbek dictator, but this was mostly the work of the Soviet Union &#8212; that wonderful, charming nation whose evil many on the Left (like Sting) were hesitant to acknowledge. The fuck of it is that most bureaucrats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[6,24,17,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-cool-stuff","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-EV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","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=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2557,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}