{"id":4137,"date":"2011-03-12T18:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2011-03-12T18:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T00:33:30","slug":"weekend-linkorama-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4137","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Non-political links:<\/p>\n

  • Well, there goes my month<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • This ability of people who talk completely out of their ass to land gigs advising<\/a> people on subjects about which they know nothing is astounding. A generation ago, it was ritual child abuse. Now it’s terrorism.<\/li>\n

    Political Links:<\/p>\n

  • While I think Radley Balko has a point<\/a> that the harsh (but not torturous) treatment of Bradley Manning is because he exposed public officials as petty and crude, I suspect the larger factor is that Manning is in military confinement. They tend to take a much harsher view of those who betray trust. And they act accordingly.<\/li>\n
  • Yet more<\/a> on why free trade is awesome. The telling fact: ipad’s supposedly add to our trade deficit by being manufactured overseas. But that $6.50 of trade “deficit” enables $178 of prosperity in this country.<\/li>\n
  • The New York Times twists<\/a> itself into pretzels<\/a> trying to sustain their liberal ideology.<\/li>\n
  • I don’t think the rise in minimum wage is the<\/i> reason low-wage jobs have disappeared<\/a>. But it hasn’t helped.<\/li>\n
  • Barack Obama, Defender of Science, is forbidding<\/a> research into whether medical marijuana works. For the children!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Non-political links: Well, there goes my month. This ability of people who talk completely out of their ass to land gigs advising people on subjects about which they know nothing is astounding. A generation ago, it was ritual child abuse. Now it’s terrorism. Political Links: While I think Radley Balko has a point that the … Continue reading Weekend Linkorama<\/span> →<\/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":[24,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-14J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137","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=4137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4143,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4137\/revisions\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}