{"id":3736,"date":"2010-12-01T18:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2010-12-01T18:35:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T00:35:41","slug":"wednesday-linkorama-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3736","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Political Links:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/11\/national_geographics_photograp.html\">Awesomeness<\/a><\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s burgers don&#8217;t rot?  Well, neither do <a href=\"http:\/\/aht.seriouseats.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html\">anyone else&#8217;s<\/a>. I suspect the difference in rotting has to do with the cheese and the bun, both of which McDonald&#8217;s makes sure have no bacterial contamination.<\/li>\n<li>More of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/The-Top-Ten-Daily-Consequences-of-Having-Evolved.html\">this<\/a>, please: scientists talk evolution.  And they deconstruct intelligent design <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W96AJ0ChboU&#038;feature=player_embedded\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>Radley Balko <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/the-nation-posts-a-narrow-apol\">shows<\/a> just how shoddy the Nation&#8217;s journalism is when it comes to bashing libertarians.<\/li>\n<li>This is heresy in some of the conservative circles I run in, but the Wikileaks appears to show an Obama Administration that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2276180\/\">good<\/a> at foreign policy. This doesn&#8217;t fit the Right Wing meme that Obama is a bumbling imbecile who hates America, so it&#8217;s being ignored.  I also suspect they wouldn&#8217;t like the specifics, which involve negotiation, deal-making, listening &#8212; you know, <i>policy<\/i> &#8212; instead of high horse unqualified demands being issued to lesser nations.  How far the GOP has fallen from the days of Reagan and Bush I.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re Full of It Watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/boortz.com\/nealz_nuze\/2010\/11\/and-another-hurricane-season-c.html\">Neal Boortz<\/a>, continuing his &#8220;global warming is a myth&#8221; religion, boasts that no hurricanes hit the US this year.  A simple Google search would have told him that this was an above-average season and in line with predictions.  It&#8217;s just that other countries got walloped.  I think there is a point that hurricane season prediction is very uncertain. But his main point is just to cover his eyes.  Even his readers called him out on this one.<\/li>\n<li>Irony, thy name is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/11\/health-care-union-drops-coverage-for-children\/67248\/\">healthcare reform<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Political Links: Awesomeness McDonald&#8217;s burgers don&#8217;t rot? Well, neither do anyone else&#8217;s. I suspect the difference in rotting has to do with the cheese and the bun, both of which McDonald&#8217;s makes sure have no bacterial contamination. More of this, please: scientists talk evolution. And they deconstruct intelligent design here. Political Links: Radley Balko shows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[17,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Yg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}