{"id":3013,"date":"2010-06-12T10:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2010-06-12T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T04:14:57","slug":"3013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bouyed by Tim Howard&#8217;s soft hands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Non-political links:<\/p>\n<li>I swear this isn&#8217;t political, it&#8217;s funny: Barack Obama was apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5556281\/was-obama-in-the-1993-music-video-for-whoomp-there-it-is\">not<\/a> in the video for Whoomp there it is.<\/li>\n<li>A nice post from my favorite web movie critic on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelviews.net\/reelthoughts.php?identifier=639\">birth of his son<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Woman claims she was <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2010\/06\/claim-citibank-fired-me-for-being-too-attractive\/\">fired<\/a> for being too hot.  I&#8217;m dubious.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LvLu9Nfd_SU&#038;feature=player_embedded#!\">Heh<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The inevitable articles about the world economy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/06\/world-cup-economics\/58028\/\">suffering<\/a> from the World Cup miss the point entirely.  Life has to be about something.  It can&#8217;t all be dollar and cents.  Joy and excitement have value too.<\/li>\n<p>Political links:<\/p>\n<li>Is one-third of healthcare spending wasted? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2010\/06\/07\/dartmouth-withstands-the-nyt-but-the-left-cannot-withstand-dartmouth\/\">Maybe<\/a>. But it is so difficult to tell, in advance, what will be effective and what won&#8217;t be.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-20007418-38.html\">This<\/a> crosses me as an extremely bad idea.  Giving the President the authority to control the internet in an &#8220;emergency&#8221;?  All we need is to get Sarah Palin elected and she&#8217;ll declare a national porn emergency and shut down the whole smash.<\/li>\n<li>Again, I ask: what is the point of electing liberals if they&#8217;re not going to do some liberal things like cut our <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/06\/11\/cutting-the-pentagon-budget\">bloated defense budget<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2010\/06\/getting-rid-of-use-it-or-lose-it-budgeting.html\">Bainbridge<\/a>. The change in budgeting rules could save us a lot of money.  It&#8217;s a good idea from the Obama team.<\/li>\n<li>It comes as no surprise to me that some anti-Walmart sentiment is being stirred up by <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/wsj-safeway-supervalu-training\">the competition<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bouyed by Tim Howard&#8217;s soft hands&#8230; Non-political links: I swear this isn&#8217;t political, it&#8217;s funny: Barack Obama was apparently not in the video for Whoomp there it is. A nice post from my favorite web movie critic on the birth of his son. Woman claims she was fired for being too hot. I&#8217;m dubious. 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