{"id":3048,"date":"2010-06-22T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3048"},"modified":"2010-06-22T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T01:09:16","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3048","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

One non-political link:<\/p>\n

  • Is FIFA censoring<\/a> the US non-goal goal? It would not surprise me, actually. When the Olympics were coming to Atlanta, I remember how sensitive the IOC were to any criticism whatsoever.<\/li>\n

    But mostly political links today, I’m afraid.<\/p>\n

  • Yet more of the Right Wing’s alternate reality. BP comes up with the idea for an escrow fund at the behest of Republicans. Talk radio denounces it. So do Republicans. Story here<\/a>. Honestly … if this idea has been proposed by Bush, the talk shows hosts would be hailing it as genius.<\/li>\n
  • I must agree that the addiction metaphor for oil doesn’t work<\/a> for me either. Until we have a viable alternative, oil is all we’ve got. We’re not addicted to oil, we’re addicted to having lots of energy. But casting the issue in that light would change the paradigm from oil enriching oil sheiks to oil keeping our economy going. Can’t have an honest debate, now, can we?<\/li>\n
  • Yet another data point<\/a> on why healthcare is so expensive — a new hospital is being denied. But more hospitals should, in theory, drive down prices, no? (H\/T: rpl).<\/li>\n
  • Here’s a question. Why is the Right Wing mocking Obama for stopping federal payments<\/a> to dead people? It’s not like he started the practice. Should we keep<\/i> writing those checks?<\/li>\n
  • Another reason<\/a> I’m glad I don’t live in Baltimore. And another reason<\/a> I’m glad I never lived in California.<\/li>\n
  • Slight quibble with the point made here<\/a> about the Saville Commission’s report on Bloody Sunday. I agree that it’s disgusting that no one wants to look back at the awful bloody behavior of the IRA. But, at the same time, we have higher standards for governments than resistance movements. That’s why terrorists cutting people’s heads doesn’t justify torture.<\/li>\n
  • Did the Church of Scientology force women<\/a> to have abortions? At this point, they have yet to earn the benefit of a doubt. But the suggestions is so harsh that I hesitate to believe it.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One non-political link: Is FIFA censoring the US non-goal goal? It would not surprise me, actually. When the Olympics were coming to Atlanta, I remember how sensitive the IOC were to any criticism whatsoever. But mostly political links today, I’m afraid. Yet more of the Right Wing’s alternate reality. BP comes up with the idea … Continue reading Tuesday Linkorama<\/span> →<\/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":[17,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048","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=3048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3048\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}