{"id":23,"date":"2010-05-27T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-05-27T05:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T05:49:59","slug":"semi-political-links-for-26-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Semi-political links for 26 May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought about linking to various commentaries about Rand Paul and Rachel Maddow, but decide instead to argue by parable: <a href=\"http:\/\/morganensberg.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/17\/and-you-are-trying-to-figure-out-why-we-don%E2%80%99t-tell-you-the-truth\/\">Morgan Ensberg talks about why ballplayers are such bland interviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to ponder the substance of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964, Lee Harris has a <a href=\"http:\/\/american.com\/archive\/2010\/may\/extremism-in-the-defense-of-rand-paul-is-no-vice\">history of Barry Goldwater&#8217;s objection<\/a> to it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Ag-Department-shuts-down-embarrassing-subsidies-database--94775469.html\">the Agriculture Department has shut down its subsidies database<\/a>. Apparently, the Most Transparent Administration in History can&#8217;t reveal the recipients of said subsidies. (Interestingly, mention of Scottie Pippen by the linked article does lead back to Ensberg&#8217;s thoughts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,27,23,22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h13J-n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}