{"id":489,"date":"2007-09-13T19:41:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T01:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=489"},"modified":"2007-09-13T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T01:44:51","slug":"rosh-hoshana-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Rosh Hoshana Linkorama!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not supposed to think today (not that I do anyway), so I’ll just link to those who do:<\/p>\n

  • Radley Balko points out that the Democrats seems to have a better notion of federalism<\/a> than the GOP. I disagree slightly. Federalism was always a ploy by the Republicans to appeal to strates’ rights conservatives like me. What they really supported was the right of the states . . . to be conservative. And I’m sure the Dems will supports states’ rights . . . as long as the states are liberal. Watch how fast their federalism vanishes when the abortion issue comes up.<\/li>\n
  • This<\/a> story makes you wonder how many of those poor assholes with their pictures on the internet are really innocent. Prostitution is an issue where my views have shifted quite a bit. A few years ago, I was in favor of keeping it illegal. I’ve become convinced that criminalization is a disaster for law enforcement, for the public and especially for women.<\/li>\n
  • LA wants to limit<\/a> fast food restaurants in poor neighborhoods. First of all, I’m sure the rich fast food chains will love<\/em> the ban on new competitition. And the locked-off market will certainly improve the food choices, since we all know effective monopolies best serve the consumer. Second, is it just me or is there something weird about a city council literally trying to take food out of the mouths of poor people?<\/li>\n
  • On the video tape I made for my daughter when she was born, I told her that the world is getting to be a better place all the time. Here’s proof<\/a>. (HT, Sully). Remember, child mortality is not a product of modern life — it is natural. It was the way things were for millions of years. All your Rousseau-wannabee environmentalist luddite shitheads can stick it. This is the result of rich people doing good things with technology and industry.
    \nThere’s a related link from Sully about how geeks have a     better perspective<\/a> on tragedy. Just wait until the Gates money starts pouring into these efforts.<\/li>\n
  • Also via Sully, we find a critique of terrorist logos<\/a>. Personally, I think the IJMP logo looks it’s having a really bad period.<\/li>\n
  • Finally, remember how wire-tapping blew up the terrorist plot in Germany? Um, no<\/a>. I’m getting sick of this spin from the Bushies. They do this constantly. Make some grand claim to grab headlines, then quietly admit it’s a crock.<\/li>\n

    Thoughts on the surge later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m not supposed to think today (not that I do anyway), so I’ll just link to those who do: Radley Balko points out that the Democrats seems to have a better notion of federalism than the GOP. I disagree slightly. Federalism was always a ploy by the Republicans to appeal to strates’ rights conservatives like … Continue reading Rosh Hoshana 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":[14,12,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-culture-war","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-7T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}