{"id":3154,"date":"2010-07-09T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2010-07-09T12:58:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T18:58:06","slug":"3154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political Links:<\/p>\n<li>Is this what we&#8217;ve come to? Death threats against <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5582463\/psychic-octopus-unfazed-by-death-threats\">psychic cephalopods<\/a>?  Have we no decency?<\/li>\n<li>Scott Adams imagines a <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/blog\/entry\/cashless_world\/\">cashless world<\/a>.  Maybe.  But it makes me nervous.  Sue and I recently went to a cash basis for most our spending.  It has really forced us to economize and stick to a budget.  Credit cards are too great a temptation.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/int\/2010\/07\/07\/olivia_munn_interview\">latest<\/a> on the fight between Jezebel and the Daily Show. I have only seen one of Olivia Munn&#8217;s segments but she seems pretty funny, hot or not.<\/li>\n<li>I rarely actually laugh out loud at something on the internet.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogliving.tumblr.com\/\">Catalog Living<\/a> has caught me twice.  <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogliving.tumblr.com\/post\/787047121\/out-of-the-closet\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a good one.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>God damn it.  What is it with government know-it-alls continually flunking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/07\/environmental-disaster\/59231\/\">basic economics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The media stopped calling torture by its name when Bush began to dispute whether things like waterboarding were torture.  They still called it torture when China did it.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/07\/05\/china\">not any more<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Climategate is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/08\/science\/earth\/08climate.html?_r=2&#038;src=mv\">five for five<\/a> in investigations of scientific fraud.  They are also five or five in being rebuked for asshole behavior and a lack of transparency.  The response of the Right?  Call it a <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/08\/wonderful-news-on-climate-change\/\">whitewash<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My unending question: what is the post of having liberals around if the most liberal court in the nation decides that being innocent does not <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.simplejustice.us\/2010\/07\/07\/the-least-dangerous-branch.aspx?ref=rss\">get you out of jail<\/a> if you filed your motion too late?<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political Links: Is this what we&#8217;ve come to? Death threats against psychic cephalopods? Have we no decency? Scott Adams imagines a cashless world. Maybe. But it makes me nervous. Sue and I recently went to a cash basis for most our spending. It has really forced us to economize and stick to a budget. 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