{"id":2642,"date":"2010-03-31T21:15:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2015-07-10T09:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T15:16:56","slug":"midweek-linkorama-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Chili grenades? <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2010\/03\/23\/mustard_gas_is_a_thing_of_the_past\">Chili<\/a> grenades.<\/li>\n<li>Stripper week continues on the blog with <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/03\/stripping-the-right-to-strip.html\">this<\/a> story about Iceland banning the practice.  This is being proclaimed as a great victory for feminism, but I don&#8217;t see that taking away women&#8217;s freedom &#8212; even if it&#8217;s the freedom to &#8220;degrade&#8221; themselves &#8211; and probably forcing them into illegal activity, is progress.<\/li>\n<li>A fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/28\/us\/politics\/28seder.html?src=me&#038;ref=homepage\">story<\/a> about the First Seder in the White House.  I wonder how the Demented Right will square this with their vision of Obama as an Israel-hating Muslim.<\/li>\n<li>Radley Balko has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2010\/03\/30\/jonathan-ayers-and-eric-cantor\/\">point<\/a>.  Why doesn&#8217;t the public have a fraction of the outrage over real killings and bloodshed committed in the name of the War on Drug as they do about a brick thrown through a politician&#8217;s window?<\/li>\n<li>Barack Obama and the Democrats kept <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/03\/26\/AR2010032602457.html\">abstinence-only<\/a> education funding in the healthcare bill.  Because what this country really needs to bring our healthcare bills down is a bunch of pregnant teenagers.  And I thought I was snarked out on that subject.<\/li>\n<li>You know the thing I hate about being a libertarian?  Being right all the time.  For the last decade, we warned that states were spending beyond their limits and creating a fiscal time bomb.  We were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/30\/business\/economy\/30states.html?hp\">right<\/a>.  Again.<\/li>\n<li>More on the <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/the-fascists-are-coming-the-fa\">Godwinizing<\/a> of the Tea Party.<\/li>\n<li>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loweringthebar.net\/2010\/03\/strip-searches-lead-to-discovery-of-comical-string-cite.html\">legal humor<\/a> from one of my favorite judges.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chili grenades? Chili grenades. Stripper week continues on the blog with this story about Iceland banning the practice. This is being proclaimed as a great victory for feminism, but I don&#8217;t see that taking away women&#8217;s freedom &#8212; even if it&#8217;s the freedom to &#8220;degrade&#8221; themselves &#8211; and probably forcing them into illegal activity, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2642\" 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":[12,17,22,5,7],"tags":[167,127,412,355,68],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-healthcare","category-humor","category-politics","category-science","tag-education","tag-feminism","tag-religion","tag-sex-work","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-GC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6717,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}