{"id":2761,"date":"2010-04-21T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T01:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2761"},"modified":"2010-04-21T19:38:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T01:38:50","slug":"midweek-linkorama-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2761","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>As expected, the &#8220;temporary&#8221; stimulus spending is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2010\/04\/15\/harkin-education-too-important-not-to-mortgage-our-future\/\">becoming permanent<\/a> as states become dependent on the Feds.<\/li>\n<li>The Philly school spying case gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/breaking\/20100416_The_Lower_Merion_School_District_today_acknowledged_that_NO_HEAD_SPECIFIED.html\">creepier<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>George Washington &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/92841-ny-library-thinks-first-prez-owes-serious-book-fine\">desperado<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Probably the most depressing thing about politics is how rapidly people&#8217;s attitudes change depending on who is in power.  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/An-alarming-epidemic-of-regime-amnesia-91459559.html\">one example<\/a>: people who used &#8220;regime&#8221; to describe the Bush Administration expressing alarm when that word is used for the Obama Administration.  I hated the word both times; I can&#8217;t listen to Limbaugh because he uses it.  But some <i>consistency<\/i> from anyone but libertarians would be nice.<\/li>\n<li>A cosmic thought on <a href=\"http:\/\/cafehayek.com\/2010\/04\/flowering-of-civilization.html\">free trade<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Just when you thought the GOP couldn&#8217;t get stupider; the Arizona wing sponsors a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxphoenix.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/state_politics\/house-oks-birther-bill-4-19-2010\">birther bill<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The food grabbers strike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2010\/04\/14\/20100414arizona-school-bans-processed-food-for-kids.html\">again<\/a>.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/19\/AR2010041905049.html?hpid=topnews\">again<\/a>.  And now the military is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5humPJ-a8RbavZ8ZQPIFoihHcUimwD9F70OO80\">in on the act<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, the &#8220;temporary&#8221; stimulus spending is becoming permanent as states become dependent on the Feds. The Philly school spying case gets creepier. George Washington &#8212; desperado. Probably the most depressing thing about politics is how rapidly people&#8217;s attitudes change depending on who is in power. Here&#8217;s one example: people who used &#8220;regime&#8221; to describe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2761\" 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":[22,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ix","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761","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=2761"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2761\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}