{"id":2866,"date":"2010-05-12T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T18:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2010-05-12T12:52:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T18:52:21","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>The State of Texas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/State-responds-to-Jolly-Rancher-incident-93171189.html\">comes to its senses<\/a> on candy.<\/li>\n<li>Blogfight?  The President&#8217;s Cancer Panel released a report on environmental chemical and cancer. <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/06\/everything-man-made-except-cel\">Reason<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/acspressroom.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/06\/cancer-and-the-environment\/\">American Cancer Society<\/a> point out that it&#8217;s panicky and inaccurate.  Orac <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2010\/05\/the_presidents_cancer_panel_steps_into_i.php\">disputes<\/a>.  This is a rare occasion when I think Orac is wrong.  As demonstrated by his criticism of the other MIchael Siegel for having the temerity to point out that the study on Scottish second-hand smoke was bullshit, he has a blind spot when it comes to cancer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20004653-503544.html\">Here we go<\/a>. Restrictions on food advertising.  I&#8217;ve found a way to completely control the advertising my daughter sees.  I don&#8217;t let her watch commercial TV. <\/li>\n<li>Of all the things I worry about, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,693317,00.html\">debt<\/a> has to the biggest.  The West is on a spending orgy which is likely to finally break them the way Communism and Fascism couldn&#8217;t.  Those trying to fix things &#8212; like Christie in New Jersey &#8212; are vilified.  Those who make the mess worse &#8212; George W. Bush, for example &#8212; are praised.  And the Democrats can&#8217;t even go three months without <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/97089-democrats-poised-to-move-measures-with-high-price-tags\">trashing<\/a> PayGo.<\/li>\n<li>Coolness.  A way has been found (maybe) to battle a huge environmental catastrophe &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/11\/fighting-underground-coal-fires\/\">coal mine fires<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-20004758-38.html\">Oops<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A big <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/11\/political_ad_in_alabama_mocks_evolution.html\">reason<\/a> why I&#8217;m still keeping my distance from the GOP.  If they elect Roy Moore to something, I&#8217;m outta here.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of Texas comes to its senses on candy. Blogfight? The President&#8217;s Cancer Panel released a report on environmental chemical and cancer. Reason and the American Cancer Society point out that it&#8217;s panicky and inaccurate. Orac disputes. This is a rare occasion when I think Orac is wrong. As demonstrated by his criticism of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[14,5,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-politics","category-science","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ke","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","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=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}