{"id":3585,"date":"2010-10-23T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3585"},"modified":"2010-10-23T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T22:12:42","slug":"weekend-linkorama-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3585","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political links:<\/p>\n<li>I love stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2013215629_hero21m.html\">this<\/a>.  They&#8217;re just a reminder of how good and decent most people are.<\/li>\n<li>Somewhere, Dan Savage is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=geyAFbSDPVk&#038;feature=player_embedded\">dancing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I think Jezebel has a <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5654633\/the-social-network-where-women-never-have-ideas\">point<\/a>. Why did the writers of <i>The Social Network<\/i> feel the need to make the story far more misogynist and sexist than it was in real life?  Given the Hollywood runs, it&#8217;s probably because that&#8217;s the way <i>they<\/i> would have done it.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>How partisanship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2010\/10\/partisan_bias\">works<\/a>. Me?  I think the government is a threat to our liberty no matter who is in office.<\/li>\n<li>Ta-Nehisi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/personal\/archive\/2010\/10\/a-culture-of-poverty\/64854\/\">demonstrates<\/a>, once again, why he&#8217;s one of my favorite liberal bloggers.  Damn, does he make me think sometimes.<\/li>\n<li>I can just hear conservatives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/10\/20\/christie-reportedly-offers-nj-education-job-ex-dc-schools-chief-rhee\/?test=latestnews\">squeal<\/a> with delight.<\/li>\n<li>The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again. Democrat restriction on bank fees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/10\/20\/free-checking-is-disappea_n_769298.html\">eliminate<\/a> free checking.  Thanks, guys!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political links: I love stories like this. They&#8217;re just a reminder of how good and decent most people are. Somewhere, Dan Savage is dancing. I think Jezebel has a point. Why did the writers of The Social Network feel the need to make the story far more misogynist and sexist than it was in real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3585\" 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":[6,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-movies","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-VP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","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=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}