{"id":96,"date":"2010-12-28T23:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T07:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-12-28T23:02:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T07:02:26","slug":"post-christmas-linkpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Post-Christmas Linkpost"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/26\/business\/26excerpt.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">How Superstars\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Pay Stifles Everyone Else<\/a>. This is a fascinating article from the point of view of information presented. Its conclusions, however, fall flat. (This is a link to a <em>NY Times<\/em> article; they&#8217;ve gone behind a registration wall.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/what-makes-the-us-health-care-system-so-expensive-introduction\/\">What makes the US health care system so expensive<\/a>. A ten-part series (completed) that covers where the U.S. spends more than you&#8217;d expect on health care. If you pay attention, you can data that support my identification of the root causes: a demand for redundancy, and market distortions caused by government and insurance.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/blog\/shutdown_corner\/post\/Browns-front-office-tells-off-a-complaining-fan?urn=nfl-299410\">Browns&#8217; front office tells off a complaining fan in a 1974 letter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/22\/newest-supporter-of-marijuana-legalization-pat-robertson\/\">Newest supporter of marijuana legalization: <em>Pat Robertson?<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/video\/index.cfm?id=954\">Mars Movie: I&#8217;m Dreaming of a Blue Sunset<\/a>. Spliced together from pictures taken by <em>Opportunity<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/htmw\/htterr\/articles\/20101222.aspx\">Counter-Terrorism: A Frustrating Shortage<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out that they&#8217;re short bomb builders, which is why intelligence agencies are so concerned about Mumbai II.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2010\/12\/20\/british-soldier-took-a-shot-to-the-head-to-save-10-year-old-girl-115875-22795117\/\">British soldier took a shot to the head to save 10-year-old girl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/what-do-the-holiday-terror-warning-targets-have-in-common\/\">What Do the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHoliday Terror Warning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Targets Have in Common?<\/a> &#8220;If you guessed that all of these are (a) places where\u00c2\u00a0large crowds  gather, and (b) places where authorities have outlawed the otherwise  legal carry of concealed weapons, you were right!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/2010\/12\/census-fast-growth-states-no-income-tax\">Census: Fast growth in states with no income tax<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2010\/12\/21\/public-educations-silver-bulle\">Public Education\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Silver Bullet<\/a>. Terry Moe seems to think that the technology is available for a labor-reducing revolution in education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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":[57,12,58,31,43,15,56,39],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h13J-1y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noserf.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}