{"id":4155,"date":"2011-03-25T21:50:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2011-03-25T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T03:50:20","slug":"friday-linkorama-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"Friday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political Links:<\/p>\n<li>Yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2011\/03\/that-was-quick-four-lines-of-code-is-all-it-takes-for-the-new-york-times-paywall-to-come-tumbling-down-2\/\">epic fail<\/a> from NYT.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/funny-7237-laundry\/\">This<\/a> is why one of the great moments in my life was the day I had my own laundry room.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/06\/weekinreview\/06happy.html?_r=2\">happiest man<\/a> in America, apparently.<\/li>\n<p>Political Links:<\/p>\n<li>It&#8217;s not a good idea to have very few IPOs on Wall Street.  It means more of our economy is being controlled by fewer people.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2011\/03\/ipo-dearth.html\">Blame Sarbanes-Oxley<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hugo Chavez, probably joking, says capitalism <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20110322\/od_nm\/us_venezuela_chavez_mars\">killed life on Mars<\/a>. It would be funny except that communism, like the kind he supports, killed tens of millions right here on planet Earth.<\/li>\n<li>The best thing about Barack Obama&#8217;s turn against civil liberties, embrace of War on Terror excesses and starting of an unapproved war in Libya is that it has exposed many of Bush&#8217;s critics for the partisan shills that they were (while also highlighting those who had genuine principles).  The worst thing about it is that it has caused Bush&#8217;s minions to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorbainbridge.com\/professorbainbridgecom\/2011\/03\/john-yoos-feeling-vindicated.html\">gloat<\/a> about how right they were, even as every day that passes proves how wrong they were.  Obama had a chance to change the course of history; his decisions have instead sealed in place the dumb decisions that Bush made.  In my book, that&#8217;s almost worse.<\/li>\n<li>Coal. vs. Nukes.  A <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2011\/03\/the-triumph-of-coal-marketing.html\">comparison<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-political Links: Yet another epic fail from NYT. This is why one of the great moments in my life was the day I had my own laundry room. The happiest man in America, apparently. Political Links: It&#8217;s not a good idea to have very few IPOs on Wall Street. It means more of our economy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[6,22,5,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-humor","category-politics","category-science","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-151","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}