{"id":2915,"date":"2010-05-22T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2010-05-22T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:42:58","slug":"uk-linkorama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2915","title":{"rendered":"More UK Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some genuine posts coming up soon, I promise.  It&#8217;s just hard to concentrate when I&#8217;m not sure what time zone I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n<li>Sarah Palin (and the Right Wing) continue to just <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2010\/05\/sarah_palin_is_no_susan_b_anthony.html\">make shit up<\/a>.  This kind of thing makes being a conservative so draining.<\/li>\n<li>I am really starting to <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/05\/checking-in-on-the-brits.html#more\">warm up<\/a> to the Tory Lib Dem coalition.  I think we could see a really nice balance come out of the unlikely alliance.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the thing about Rand Paul saying he would oppose the Civil Rights Act.  I think he&#8217;s wrong, for reasons stated <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/conorfriedersdorf\/2010\/05\/20\/fetishizing-federal-power\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2010\/05\/making-the-argument\/57044\/\">here<\/a>.  But I also think his statement had the potential to open up some interesting discussions.  Too bad it&#8217;s opening up demagoguery and <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/36389_Rand_Paul_Ron_Paul_and_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#rss\">dumbass cries<\/a> of racism.  And people wonder why politicians never say anything.<\/li>\n<li>2010 is shaping up to be the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/sciencefair\/post\/2010\/05\/2010-is-warmest-year-on-record\/1\">warmest<\/a> year on record.  Do you think will stop the Right from claiming there has been no warming for the last ten years?<\/li>\n<li>Reason and others on <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/selective-denialism\">denialism<\/a>. The problem is that the term is so loaded that people get defensive.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some genuine posts coming up soon, I promise. It&#8217;s just hard to concentrate when I&#8217;m not sure what time zone I&#8217;m in. Sarah Palin (and the Right Wing) continue to just make shit up. This kind of thing makes being a conservative so draining. I am really starting to warm up to the Tory Lib &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More UK 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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-L1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915","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=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}