{"id":3836,"date":"2011-01-08T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2011-01-08T19:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T01:06:56","slug":"weekend-linkorama-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have my year-in-review, year-ahead post soon.  Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Non-political links:<\/p>\n<li>Oh, Jesus.  Someone wants to publish an <a href=\"http:\/\/shelf-life.ew.com\/2011\/01\/03\/huckleberry-finn-n-word-censor-edit\/\">edition<\/a> of Huck Fin scrubbed of the racial pejoratives.  Here&#8217;s a clue, guys.  You are not &#8220;updating&#8221; Twain&#8217;s writing, you are censoring it.  Mark Twain <i>knew<\/i> those words were racial pejoratives when he wrote them.  <i>That was the entire point.<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The hysterics <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5724684\/\">win again<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18946_the-5-ballsiest-acts-undercover-journalism-ever.html\">this<\/a> is reporting.<\/li>\n<p>Political links:<\/p>\n<li>From the &#8220;Huh, What?&#8221; file: conservatives are mocking Obama for re-instituting duck-and-cover drills.  Glenn Reynolds points out that these drills are actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2011\/01\/the-unexpected-return-of-duck-and-cover\/68776\/\">really good idea<\/a> given the current threats.<\/li>\n<li>I have to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/04\/glenn-beck-raising-the-debt-ceiling-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-republicans\/\">Allahpundit<\/a>. The GOP&#8221;s threat to not raise the debt ceiling is insanity.  It&#8217;s crashing the economy for he sake of showing how tough you are instead of making actual tough choices (they&#8217;re already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/05\/us\/politics\/05fiscal.html?_r=1\">weaseling<\/a> on promised budget cuts).  I&#8217;m already beginning to worry about the Republicans.  And they haven&#8217;t been in office more than a day.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll have my year-in-review, year-ahead post soon. Meanwhile&#8230; Non-political links: Oh, Jesus. Someone wants to publish an edition of Huck Fin scrubbed of the racial pejoratives. Here&#8217;s a clue, guys. You are not &#8220;updating&#8221; Twain&#8217;s writing, you are censoring it. Mark Twain knew those words were racial pejoratives when he wrote them. That was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=3836\" 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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-ZS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836","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=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}