{"id":3252,"date":"2010-07-26T20:05:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2010-07-26T20:05:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T02:05:24","slug":"monday-linkorama-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"Monday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry.  All politics today.<\/p>\n<li>Lenore Skenazy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/07\/21\/consumer-product-safety-hazard-opinions-columnist-lenore-skenazy.html?boxes=Homepagechannels\">lays into<\/a> the panic-driven CSPA.<\/li>\n<li>A federal judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/more_sports\/2010\/07\/22\/2010-07-22_federal_judge_who_rules_cheerleading_is_not_a_sport_under_title_ix_should_toss_h.html\">rules<\/a> that cheerleading is not a sport.  Ignoring, for the moment, the Title IX implications, this is asinine. Whatever one may think of cheerleading, the college level has grueling training, judged competitions and a higher injury rate than most contact sports.  To me, that makes it a sport.<\/li>\n<li>Boy, these sex offender registries just keep getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.king5.com\/news\/Innocent-man-may-be-linked-to-sex-offender-for-rest-of-his-life-98943394.html\">better and better<\/a>, no?  Can&#8217;t they give him a &#8220;I&#8217;m not a pedophile&#8221; card or something?<\/li>\n<li>And this mosque business sure brings out <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2010\/07\/newt-gingrich-calls-on-united-states-to-adopt-saudi-arabian-standards-of-religious-freedom\/\">the stupid<\/a>, doesn&#8217;t it?\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2260952\/entry\/2260953\/\">long story<\/a> on the Phoebe Prince case.  I ache for her parents, but I&#8217;m not comfortable with the criminal charges being leveled.  I&#8217;m not sure if I believe everything in the article, but it&#8217;s clear we weren&#8217;t told the entire story.<\/li>\n<li>Are bans on conflict diamonds making the situation <a href=\"http:\/\/texasinafrica.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/minerals-minerals-minerals.html\">better or worse<\/a>?  I honestly don&#8217;t know what to believe here, despite my inclinations against sanctions.  Life is so much easier when I don&#8217;t have to think.<\/li>\n<li>Glenn Greenwald <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/07\/24\/anonymity\">lays into<\/a> the media for attacking the blogosphere again.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry. All politics today. Lenore Skenazy lays into the panic-driven CSPA. A federal judge rules that cheerleading is not a sport. Ignoring, for the moment, the Title IX implications, this is asinine. Whatever one may think of cheerleading, the college level has grueling training, judged competitions and a higher injury rate than most contact sports. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3252\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[12,15,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Qs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}