{"id":3537,"date":"2010-10-08T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2010-10-08T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:13:21","slug":"friday-linkorama-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political links:<\/p>\n<li>Yeah, I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/world\/unearthed-aryan-cities-rewrite-history\/story-e6frg6so-1225933563131\">archeology<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/dailypitch\/post\/2010\/09\/health-inspector-called-on-the-reds-for-celebration-cigars-\/1\">Really?<\/a>  What kind of busy body are you?<\/li>\n<li>I love it when facts trump common wisdom.  Freakonomics <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/07\/freakonomics-radio-who-stole-all-the-runs-in-major-league-baseball\/\">dismantles<\/a> the idea that steroid testing is why run-scoring is down.  One of the things I didn&#8217;t like about Ken Burns&#8217; <i>Tenth Inning<\/i> was that it accepted as gospel the idea that steroids produced the recent offensive explosion.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Safety&#8221; does not make us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18775_5-popular-safety-measures-that-dont-make-you-any-safer.html\">safe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;ve made it pretty clear that I don&#8217;t like Dick Blumenthal. Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1jkU3RSfDGE&#038;feature=player_embedded\">here<\/a> as Linda McMahon &#8212; of the WWE &#8212; cleans his clock on how jobs are created.  She says it better in ten seconds than he does in almost two minutes of burbling.<\/li>\n<li>Seems like Lou Dobbs is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/155209\/lou-dobbs-american-hypocrite?page=full\">every kind of hypocrite<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re Full of It Watch: the <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/10\/06\/pot-prohibitionist-prevaricati\">anti-Prop 19ers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So what do you do when your Keynesian economic plan has failed?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2010\/10\/06\/the_enemy_is_not_cheap_goods\/\">Blame foreigners<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/me-redevelop-housing-20101003,0,6402047,full.story\">redevelopment<\/a>. What a scam.<\/li>\n<li>You know, I remember when &#8220;binge drinking&#8221; actually meant binge drinking, not <a href=\"http:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/inflating-binge-drinking-statistics\/\">just drinking<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political links: Yeah, I love archeology. Really? What kind of busy body are you? I love it when facts trump common wisdom. Freakonomics dismantles the idea that steroid testing is why run-scoring is down. 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