{"id":3209,"date":"2010-07-18T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2010-07-18T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:05:02","slug":"sunday-night-all-politics-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night All Politics Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Dear Mr. Williams.  Just go the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.reidreport.com\/2010\/07\/tea-partier-mark-williams-writes-open-letter-to-lincoln-from-the-coloreds\/\">fuck away<\/a>.  Although I&#8217;ll note in passing that the supposedly racist Tea Partiers gave him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/POLITICS\/07\/18\/tea.party.imbroglio\/?hpt=T2\">the boot<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You too, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/36746_The_Mega-Mosque_Hate_Video_Rejected_by_NBC_and_CBS#rss\">mosque protesters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Obama supports tax cuts &#8230; for <a href=\"http:\/\/sayanythingblog.com\/entry\/trial-lawyers-expecting-treasury-department-to-give-them-1-6-billion-tax-break\/\">trial lawyers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s the thing.  You can provide <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/07\/free-birth-control-for-all.html#more\">&#8220;free&#8221; birth control<\/a> if you want.  I know it&#8217;s going to cost quite a bit.  But I&#8217;m unconvinced it will prevent unwanted pregnancies.  It&#8217;s not primarily a lack of access that causes them; free condoms are available just about everywhere. It&#8217;s a lack of responsibility.  And providing birth control for free could even make things worse because people get more reckless when they get free stuff.  What are we going to say when thousands of women get their &#8220;free&#8221; birth control, think they&#8217;re bulletproof, don&#8217;t use it right and get pregnant?  To think we can prevent three million pregnancies by handing out pills at street corners is to indulge in the rankest sort of magical thinking about government.<\/li>\n<li>Jesus Christ, are the schools trying to make girls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2010\/07\/17\/mass-parents-angry-kids-sent-home-fat-reports\/\">anorexic<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=11984\">Here<\/a> is how states go off the fiscal rails.<\/li>\n<li>Once again &#8230; do politicians not know about this internet thing where we can look up <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/07\/18\/biden-failed-stimulus-all-gops-fault\/\">what they said<\/a> just, like, a year ago.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Williams. Just go the fuck away. Although I&#8217;ll note in passing that the supposedly racist Tea Partiers gave him the boot. You too, mosque protesters. Obama supports tax cuts &#8230; for trial lawyers. Here&#8217;s the thing. You can provide &#8220;free&#8221; birth control if you want. I know it&#8217;s going to cost quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Night All Politics 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":[17,5,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-tax-and-spend","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-PL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209","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=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}