{"id":3568,"date":"2009-09-12T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2009-09-12T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T16:33:00","slug":"saturday-various-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"Saturday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Proof again that parasites <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discoveryon.info\/2009\/09\/rare-tongue-eating-parasite-found.html\">are the scariest damn things out there<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking, sort of, of parasitic mouth-breathers, you have read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=14202\">the single worst<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/daily-buzzkills-check-out-the-rape-victim-hook-whi,32759\/\">sports column<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/09\/09\/iorange-county-registeri_n_281195.html\">ever written<\/a>, right? The fact that Mark Whicker doesn&#8217;t seem to understand <i>how<\/i> his column trivialized Jaycee Dugard&#8217;s horrific 18-year ordeal &#8212; and is lousy journalism to boot &#8212; is just disgusting. <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/09\/joe-wilson-youtube-i-will-not-be-muzzled.php\">Joe Wilson<\/a> gave a more sincere apology.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Wilson, via Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kbandersen\">Kurt Andersen writes<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Nobody who applauded the dude in Baghdad who threw his shoe at Bush really has any standing to accuse Joe Wilson of incivility. Right?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">It&#8217;s an interesting point, but I do think it&#8217;s wrong and maybe over-simplifies. For starters, this is at least partly about context. Shoe-thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi was a journalist attending a press conference, whereas Joe Wilson was a Congressman attending the President&#8217;s address to that legislative body. There are different levels of decorum expected, if only by tradition, in those two very different settings. Also Bush is obviously not Iraqi, whereas both Wilson and Obama are Americans, and Iraq was\/is a more hostile battleground than health care. (Although you maybe wouldn&#8217;t know it, from some of the &#8220;debate&#8221; and hysteria surrounding the latter.) Both the thrown shoe and presidential heckling were uncivil acts, neither the best solution at the time, but the shoe is more defensible, if only because it was born out of a shared desperation instead of politics. That Wilson was demonstrably <i>wrong<\/i> about Obama&#8217;s so-called lie, and yet has continued to spread his own lies about the proposed governmental health care&#8230; Well, it&#8217;s tough to continue drawing parallels between the two outbursts.<\/li>\n<li>James Patterson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6695002.html\">signs a 17-book deal<\/a> &#8220;that will keep him with publisher Hachette through 2012.&#8221; Do the math: even if the deal goes into effect immediately, that&#8217;s 17 books in just over two years, about eight books a year. I guess it&#8217;s a good thing James Patterson doesn&#8217;t actually have to write <i>well<\/i>, huh? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, this proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/09\/new-plan-9-teaser-marks-l.php\"><i>Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/i> remake<\/a>&#8230;is a joke, right?<\/font>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6495114&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6495114&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/6495114\">Plan 9 Teaser Trailer<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/darkstoneent\">Darkstone Entertainment<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proof again that parasites are the scariest damn things out there. [via] Speaking, sort of, of parasitic mouth-breathers, you have read the single worst sports column ever written, right? The fact that Mark Whicker doesn&#8217;t seem to understand how his column trivialized Jaycee Dugard&#8217;s horrific 18-year ordeal &#8212; and is lousy journalism to boot &#8212; &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3568\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,14,37,6,9,11,38,32,10,39,12,24],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-publishing","tag-science","tag-twitter","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-writing","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}