{"id":3320,"date":"2010-08-11T03:56:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T09:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2010-08-15T20:58:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T02:58:22","slug":"aussie-linkorama-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3320","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political Links:<\/p>\n<li>What if the Earth <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/21768\">stopped spinning<\/a>? Remember, according to the Bible, it did.<\/li>\n<li>Posnanski writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/joeposnanski.si.com\/2010\/08\/06\/what-if-we-are-wrong-again-about-steroids\/\">great post<\/a> on the idea that we were wrong about steroids.  Notice that most of the people disputing him use the, &#8220;Oh come on, it was SOOO obvious!&#8221; line of argument.<\/li>\n<li>Wonderful color pics of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/07\/rare-color-photos-from-the-great-depression_n_674344.html\">Depression<\/a> era.<\/li>\n<li>The illustrated guide to a <a href=\"http:\/\/matt.might.net\/articles\/phd-school-in-pictures\/\">Ph. D.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>You&#8217;re Full of Shit Watch: Paul Krugman is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/08\/krugman-is-wrong-on-ryan-and-the-cbo\/61110\/\">full of it<\/a> on Paul Ryan, Newt is <a href=\"http:\/\/gotmedieval.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/professor-newts-distorted-history.html\">full of it<\/a> on the Cordoba Mosque and Bill Kristol is just <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/08\/kristols-selfparody.html\">full of it<\/a> in general.<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco is rapidly <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2010\/08\/the_other_guys_movie_poster_di.php\">becoming a joke<\/a> on Nanny State issues.  This is absurd.<\/li>\n<li>The idea of removing the lifetime tenure of Supreme Court nominees tends to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/08\/modest-proposal-fixed-tenure-for-the-supreme-court\/61109\/\">surface<\/a> every now and then, mostly when the White House has switched parties.  I agree the debate has gotten nastier, although we have Democrats to thank for that (see Bork, Robert).  But this is a dumb idea.  The best thing about the Court is that the justice are free to rule as they see fit.  We&#8217;ve seen a number of them go in unexpected directions.  And that&#8217;s a good thing.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political Links: What if the Earth stopped spinning? Remember, according to the Bible, it did. Posnanski writes a great post on the idea that we were wrong about steroids. Notice that most of the people disputing him use the, &#8220;Oh come on, it was SOOO obvious!&#8221; line of argument. Wonderful color pics of the Depression &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aussie 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":[24,15,5,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-sports","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Ry","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320","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=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}