{"id":7185,"date":"2011-08-16T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T22:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2011-08-16T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T00:50:57","slug":"tuesday-various-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7185","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2024761\/Atlas-Shrugged-Silicon-Valley-billionaire-reveals-plan-launch-floating-start-country-coast-San-Francisco.html\">Silicon Valley billionaire reveals plan to launch floating &#8216;start up country&#8217; off San Francisco<\/a>. Yeah, <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> gonna end well. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DoctorHu\" via=\"@DoctorHu\">via<\/a>]\n<p>When I first saw that, I asked, &#8220;Are there any words scarier than &#8216;inspired by <i>Atlas Shrugged<\/i>&#8216;?&#8221; To which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/DoctorHu\">DoctorHu<\/a> rightly responded, &#8220;Are there any funnier or more appropriate than &#8216;We want looser building codes in our floating city?'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>But what do they care? Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/44084236\/ns\/health-behavior\/\">the very rich have less empathy<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of the divide between rich and poor, if you&#8217;re like me and were wondering how Blackberry&#8217;s became the organizing tool of rioters and looters recently in England, <a href=\"http:\/\/anarchogeek.com\/2011\/08\/11\/the-blackberry-shift-from-executives-to-the-urban-poor\/\">here&#8217;s an interesting article<\/a> on their shift from executives to the urban poor. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2011\/08\/the-great-marvel-comics-rip-off\/\">Marvel Bribes Retailers to Destroy DC Comics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Bert and Ernie <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/12\/no-wedding-bells-for-bert-and-ernie\/\">are not gay<\/a>. So sayeth Sesame Workshop, and you know, I&#8217;m with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2011_08_11.html#021093\">Mark Evanier<\/a> on this. It was just ridiculous from the get-go:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>One could also argue, as I would if I could stand to devote five more minutes to this whole ridiculous matter, that there&#8217;s a nice lesson in Bert and Ernie <i>not<\/i> being retrofitted as gay lovers. It <i>is<\/i> possible for two men or two women to be close friends and live together and sleep in adjoining beds without their sexuality being an issue or someone saying, &#8220;They must be gay!&#8221; I don&#8217;t think same-sex wedlock threatens so-called &#8220;traditional&#8221; marriages in any way. I don&#8217;t think the idea that two males might just be really close friends (and nothing more) threatens gay marriages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley billionaire reveals plan to launch floating &#8216;start up country&#8217; off San Francisco. Yeah, that&#8217;s gonna end well. [via] When I first saw that, I asked, &#8220;Are there any words scarier than &#8216;inspired by Atlas Shrugged&#8216;?&#8221; To which DoctorHu rightly responded, &#8220;Are there any funnier or more appropriate than &#8216;We want looser building codes &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7185\">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":[67,20,83,60,37,43,17,10],"class_list":["post-7185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-comics","tag-legal","tag-money","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185"}],"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=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}