{"id":3040,"date":"2010-06-17T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2010-06-17T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:12:11","slug":"3040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

This linkorama is brought to you by the letter H.<\/p>\n

Non-political links:<\/p>\n

  • More<\/a> on the horrific torture and murder of children in Nigeria on witchcraft charges. Worse: the lead witch-smeller pursuivant is being feted by people in this country.<\/li>\n
  • Gun cliches<\/a>. These annoy the heck out of me too.<\/li>\n
  • I actually think the discovery of vast mineral reserves<\/a> in Afghanistan could be bad for that country. Natural resources are frequently more of a curse than a blessing. Think of war-ravaged Africa on the one hand and the British Empire on the other.<\/li>\n
  • Coolness<\/a>. A direct image of an exoplanet.<\/li>\n
  • Another study<\/a> looks at why there are fewer women in science. I expect this will be an unpopular study — note what happened to Larry Summers. But hopefully it will stimulate some discussion. While I think the study makes some points, I’m not convinced we are in the interest-limited regime for women in physics.<\/li>\n
  • Jesus<\/a>. (H\/T: Astropixie).<\/li>\n

    Political Links:<\/p>\n

  • Bill Kristol, the delusional hack who denounced predictions of sectarian violence in post-war Iraq as liberal hysteria, is advocating for bombing Iran<\/a>. I should really fisk the shit out of this one. Well, somebody already did<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Why I Don’t Like Big Government, Part 135: Apple is getting castigated and threatened<\/a> for not genuflecting to Washington. We’ve seen similar things happen to Microsoft, Paypal and Google. If you become powerful, you have to give Washington their pound of flesh. There is<\/i> no opting out of the lobbying game.<\/li>\n
  • I remember Margaret Thatcher. I admired Margaret Thatcher. You, Sarah Palin, are no Margaret Thatcher<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • You can add Denmark<\/a> to Spain and Germany as countries that have lost jobs as a result of “investment” in green industries. Broad tax incentives, not subsidies, are the way to go here. Subsidized industries are almost always an economic drag.<\/li>\n
  • Illnois educators are retiring well<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Yet more unintended consequences<\/a>, this time from bank charge restrictions.<\/li>\n
  • As I feared, Republicans want to fix healthcare by removing<\/a> the insurance mandate but leaving everything intact. This would be the only thing worse than the current bill — it would destroy the insurance industry.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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