{"id":6661,"date":"2011-05-23T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2011-05-22T22:20:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T02:20:56","slug":"monday-various-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6661","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ben Stein is kind of an amoral douchebag, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/05\/17\/ben-stein-blame-accuser\/\">isn&#8217;t he<\/a>? The rich <i>are<\/i> different, at least in his head; when they commit rape, it isn&#8217;t rape. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.xkcd.com\/2011\/05\/18\/answering-ben-steins-question\/\">More here<\/a>.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a <i>lot<\/i> John McCain doesn&#8217;t understand, but I&#8217;d say he probably has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/politics\/war_room\/2011\/05\/17\/santorum_mccain_enhanced_interrogation\">good handle on torture<\/a>. Rick Santorum is an idiot. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not often you hear someone in Hollywood blame their <i>sobriety<\/i> for inappropriate behavior. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/21\/movies\/lars-von-trier-says-urge-to-entertain-and-sobriety-led-him-astray.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Lars von Trier is ahead of the curve<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/81476\/high-schooler-challenges-bachmann-to-debate-on-u-s-constitution\">High schooler challenges Michelle Bachmann to debate on U.S. Constitution<\/a>. It&#8217;ll never happen, but my money&#8217;s on the high school girl. Hell, in a debate on the Constitution with Bachmann, my money would be on a potted plant. Bachmann supporters have, of course, <a href=\"\nhttp:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/news\/us_politics\/view\/20110521teens_challenge_to_us_rep_bachmann_stirs_online_attacks\/srvc=home&#038;position=recent\">responded with typical grace and tact<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, it&#8217;s okay to be Takei. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dRkIWB3HIEs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Stein is kind of an amoral douchebag, isn&#8217;t he? The rich are different, at least in his head; when they commit rape, it isn&#8217;t rape. More here.[via] There&#8217;s a lot John McCain doesn&#8217;t understand, but I&#8217;d say he probably has a good handle on torture. Rick Santorum is an idiot. [via] It&#8217;s not often &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6661\">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":[83,14,37,6,10,142],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-legal","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-various","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661"}],"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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}