{"id":4187,"date":"2011-03-29T07:54:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2011-03-29T07:54:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:54:17","slug":"tuesday-linkorama-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4187","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Political links:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704050204576218653335935720.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1\">This<\/a> may be the most depressing thing I&#8217;ve read today &#8212; we were apparently 1.4 inches away from preventing the BP disaster.<\/li>\n<li>I always knew Rachel Ray was a <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2011\/03\/for-want-of-a-comma.html\">monster<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>Political links:<\/p>\n<li>Two from Glenn Greenwald today on how our President has, as I feared, decided that the November elections were not a call for reigning in government, but for expanding its reach.  He&#8217;s now <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704050204576218970652119898.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">limiting Miranda rights<\/a> for terror suspects arrested in this country and appointing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2011\/03\/25\/james\">chief psychiatrist<\/a> who designed the torture regime to a position of power.<\/li>\n<li>For once, I&#8217;m going to disagree with Veronique De Rugy, who <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2011\/03\/25\/the-truth-about-nuclear-power\">claims<\/a> that nuclear power can&#8217;t compete with fossil fuels.  This is true, technically.  But fossil fuels have a massive cost &#8212; pollution, death and global warming &#8212; that is not being charged to its consumers.<\/li>\n<li>Tax the rich? We already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxfoundation.org\/blog\/show\/27134.html\">do<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This just in.  Donald Trump is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/donald-trump\/what-is-donald-trump-trying-hide-us-563901\">idiot<\/a>.  So is <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/28\/gingrich-fears-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists\/?hpt=T2\">Newt<\/a>. Or, at least, they pretend to be because they think so little of us.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Political links: This may be the most depressing thing I&#8217;ve read today &#8212; we were apparently 1.4 inches away from preventing the BP disaster. I always knew Rachel Ray was a monster. Political links: Two from Glenn Greenwald today on how our President has, as I feared, decided that the November elections were not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=4187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[6,22,15,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-humor","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-15x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187","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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}