{"id":3264,"date":"2010-07-29T09:56:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T15:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2010-07-29T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T15:58:08","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, some non-political links! Three of em!<\/p>\n

  • Sully’s readers wax rhapsodic<\/a> about Doctor Who. It’s a joy to read for this Whovian. The wife unit and I used to watch it every Friday. We’re recently turned some friends onto it. And meeting someone who’s a fan creates an instant conversation. I agree with what he says about the show. As science fiction, it has it’s problems. But as drama, it’s wonderful. And yes, the Doctor is anti-matter to Jack Bauer (but hopefully not Amanda!).<\/li>\n
  • Cool slow mo<\/a> video. I particularly like the mouse traps.<\/li>\n
  • I think (hope) I’m somewhere on the main sequence<\/a>. I had to play with the metrics a bit (there are, apparently, lots of Mike Siegels out there and I have a lot of GCNs under my belt at ADS). But my calculation are mid main sequence.<\/li>\n

    Political Links:<\/p>\n

  • Not sure if this<\/a> is political or not. It’s about the pink sari gang that are bringing vigilante justice to India. I often think that true progress in things women’s right comes not from a benevolent kind government but from millions of people suddenly say, “Hey, why do<\/i> we put up with his shit?” If this thing ever reaches the Islamic world, the Earth will shake.<\/li>\n
  • And just when you thought the smear on Shirley Sherrod couldn’t get worse, it does. Ta-Nehisi<\/a> and Balko<\/a> take it on. Again, we see why Ta-Nehisi is one of my favorite liberal writers: “The more I think about this, the more I am faced with the kind of question I feel naive and stupid for asking–What kind of human being writes a 4,000 word article to prove that someone’s long-dead relative wasn’t lynched because he was beaten to death? Callousness is scary. Stupidity is scary. When you combine the two….I mean seriously, What the fuck? It’s the worst of everything.”<\/li>\n
  • More “failure”<\/a> from Obama on illegal immigration. Again, expect radio silence from the “amnesty!” shrieking Right Wing.<\/li>\n
  • Peter Suderman runs down the sad sad legacy<\/a> of Democratic budget trickeration.<\/li>\n
  • FOIA was used to discover that the SEC was, among other things, warned that Bernie Madoff was a shyster. So the Dodd-Frank bill fixes this by … exempting<\/a> the SEC from FOIA. It’s amazing how often, under the current Congress, progress has been defined by preventing anyone in power from ever having to take responsibility for anything.<\/li>\n
  • You know … Dee Snider has a point<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Finally, some non-political links! Three of em! Sully’s readers wax rhapsodic about Doctor Who. It’s a joy to read for this Whovian. The wife unit and I used to watch it every Friday. We’re recently turned some friends onto it. And meeting someone who’s a fan creates an instant conversation. I agree with what he … Continue reading Wednesday 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":[24,15,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-tax-and-spend"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-QE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","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=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}