{"id":908,"date":"2008-07-30T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=908"},"modified":"2008-07-30T19:32:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:32:48","slug":"wednesday-night-linkorama-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Night Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
  • This<\/a> is what happens when you let parents control policy. They were scared kids were going to hurt themselves on play equipment. Now they’re angry because the protective mats get hot. They want the city — I shit you not — to put protective canopies over every playground. It’s only a matter of time until the city fixed on the best solution: demolish all the playgrounds.<\/li>\n
  • LA just banned plastic bags from stores. I feel like I’m beating a dead horse pointing out that this is bad<\/a> for the environment. And some people think we should have the government solve global warming.<\/li>\n
  • How lovely<\/a>. Pointlessly terrorize law-abiding citizens; get decorated for it.<\/li>\n
  • Having tobacco regulated by the FDA? Bad idea<\/a>. What is with politicians that they worship certain agencies so much? The FDA can’t keep up with their current<\/i> tasks, let along regulating the billions of cigarettes Americans suck on every year. One feels that this is a backdoor attempt to outlaw cigarettes.<\/li>\n
  • More commentary<\/a> on LA’s stupid fast food ban:
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    I exaggerate not a bit when I describe the prevailing politics of L.A. to be roughly as follows: Wal-Mart and big box stores = evil, and need to be stopped at all costs. Also, we need more cheap supermarkets! Mom and pop stores need to be defended from Big Corporations, unless they sell fried chicken or used tires, or get in the way of a big development project. We have an affordable housing crisis, which is why we need to raise property taxes, limit the footprint of houses on their lots, and bulldoze thousands of affordable houses to make way for schools that we don’t need!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n

  • I’ve finally figured out the best way to enforce the DMCA. Ban everything!<\/a>. Oh, they’re already taking their advice, trying to ban comments. Yes, comments.<\/li>\n
  • As a professional astronomer (for the moment), this<\/a> made me laugh. Well, giggle. Well, grin at least.<\/li>\n
  • Obviously, a future Obama voter<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is what happens when you let parents control policy. They were scared kids were going to hurt themselves on play equipment. Now they’re angry because the protective mats get hot. They want the city — I shit you not — to put protective canopies over every playground. It’s only a matter of time until … Continue reading Wednesday Night 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":[15,5,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics","category-science","category-nanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-eE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}