{"id":3470,"date":"2010-09-11T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T23:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2010-09-11T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T23:58:20","slug":"weekend-linkorama-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3470","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political links:<\/p>\n<li>Oh, men lie about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/mens-fashion\/pants-size-chart-090710#ixzz0yxkIqCdw\"><i>pants<\/i> size<\/a>.  I totally misread the topic of that article.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2010\/09\/female-sexuality-as-insanity\/62619\/#ooid=BvZmY0MTr0wzAKtZ5Ud-lnoTbc6g3eMk\">funny video<\/a> about &#8220;hysteria&#8221; in the 19th century.<\/li>\n<li>Angry Man is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=77C47XYm_3c&#038;feature=player_embedded\">right<\/a>. Death to the penny!<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reportingonhealth.org\/resources\/lessons\/covering-vaccines\">Lovely stuff<\/a> from the anti-vaccine movement.  Also, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2010-07-27-pertussis27_st_N.htm\">end-note<\/a>, in which the resurgence of whooping cough has killed six babies in California.<\/li>\n<li>Some good words on the Iranian situation from &#8230; holy shit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2010\/09\/fidel-to-ahmadinejad-stop-slandering-the-jews\/62566\/5\">Fidel Castro<\/a>?  That can&#8217;t be right.<\/li>\n<li>Ooh!  Ooh.  Koran Burning Men went to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/09\/10\/exciting-new-media-angle-to-koran-burning-story-pastor-went-to-high-school-with-rush-limbaugh\/\">high school<\/a> with Rush Limbaugh, which means &#8230; means &#8230; something?<\/li>\n<li>What is it with this Administration that they simply <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100909\/ap_on_bi_ge\/us_health_insurance_warning\">can not tolerate<\/a> crticism?<\/li>\n<li>Ah, rent control. Is their no wealthy demographic it doesn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/gregmankiw.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/dastardly-clever-scheme.html\">benefit<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Defensive medicine apparently costs <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/health\/2010\/09\/07\/how-much-does-defensive-medicine-cost-one-study-says-46-billion\/\">$46 billion<\/a>. I think that estimate <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2010\/09\/september-9-roundup-2\/#comment-100481\">may be low<\/a>.  Still, it&#8217;s something to reduce, not the primary driver of healthcare costs.<\/li>\n<li>Question: are the Keynesians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=12123&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CatoRecentOpeds+%28Cato+Recent+Op-eds%29\">ever<\/a> right?  I mean, ever?<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Sullivan <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/09\/what-tyranny-is-this.html\">lets fly<\/a> on the Obama Administration&#8217;s increasingly dispiriting approach to civil liberties and fundamental rights.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political links: Oh, men lie about pants size. I totally misread the topic of that article. A funny video about &#8220;hysteria&#8221; in the 19th century. Angry Man is right. Death to the penny! Political Links: Lovely stuff from the anti-vaccine movement. Also, read the end-note, in which the resurgence of whooping cough has killed six &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[6,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-TY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}