{"id":3612,"date":"2009-04-22T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/22\/links-for-2009-04-22\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T05:01:10","slug":"links-for-2009-04-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/22\/links-for-2009-04-22\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2009-04-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/04\/19\/education\/edlife\/20090419EdlifeQuiz.html\">Pop Quiz &#8211; Advanced Placement &#8211; Education Life &#8211; Interactive Quiz &#8211; A.P. Economics &#8211; Interactive Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I got 14\/18, which isn&#8217;t all that bad if you consider that I never took economics at any level.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/quiz\">quiz<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/impeach-jay-bybee\/\">Think Progress \u00c2\u00bb TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress To Hold Impeachment Hearings Against Judge Jay Bybee<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;ThinkProgress is sending a petition to the members of the House Judiciary Committee \u00e2\u0080\u0094 where impeachment articles are drawn \u00e2\u0080\u0094 imploring them to act now to remove Bybee from public office. Please join our efforts!<\/p>\n<p>Jay Bybee has neither the legal nor moral authority to sit in judgment of others. Sign the petition below.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/war\">war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/evil\">evil<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/2009\/04\/two_earth_mass_planet.php\">Dynamics of Cats : Two Earth Mass Planet<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Gliese 581 is an M3 red dwarf, it has a mass of about a third that of the Sun, slightly lower metal content and is about the same age probably a bit older than the Sun, we think.<br \/>\nIt is about 20 light years away.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/astronomy\">astronomy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/planets\">planets<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/ezraklein_archive?month=04&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=what_would_you_say_you_do_here\">EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;Tangentially-related to the question of whether Wall Street types deserve their compensation packages is the yearly phenomenon in which actively managed mutual funds underperform the market. Between 2004 and 2008, 66.21% of domestic funds did worse than the S&amp;P Composite 1500. In 2008, 64.23% underperformed. In other words, if you had a fund manager and his employees bringing their skill and knowledge to bear on your portfolio, you probably lost money as compared to the market as a whole.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/ezra-klein\">ezra-klein<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/04\/college-attainment-and-family-income.php\">Matthew Yglesias \u00c2\u00bb College Attainment and Family Income<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;As you can see, family income has a big influence here. Two thirds of the kids with average math scores and low-income parents wind up not going to college, while almost two-thirds of high-income kids with average math scores do go. &quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/education\">education<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/economics\">economics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/04\/one-cheer-for-fred-phelps.html\">slacktivist: One cheer for Fred Phelps<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&quot;So it turns out that the litigious old bastard has at least one useful social purpose. The unimpeded, undiminished work of his infamously evil  anti-gay &quot;ministry&quot; emphatically disproves every Scary Story promoted by anti-gay religious groups who claim that recognizing marriage equality or including sexual orientation in existing hate-crime or anti-discrimination legislation will lead to Christian ministers being thrown in jail for saying they believe homosexuality is a sin.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/stupid\">stupid<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/religion\">religion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/marriage\">marriage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/evil\">evil<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/storque\/media\/article_images\/baby2and3.jpg\">baby2and3.jpg (JPEG Image, 565&#215;250 pixels)<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Unbelievable things people do with their babies, aleph-nought in a series.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pictures\">pictures<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/kid-stuff\">kid-stuff<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Quiz &#8211; Advanced Placement &#8211; Education Life &#8211; Interactive Quiz &#8211; A.P. Economics &#8211; Interactive Graphic &#8211; NYTimes.com I got 14\/18, which isn&#8217;t all that bad if you consider that I never took economics at any level. (tags: economics business quiz) Think Progress \u00c2\u00bb TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress To Hold Impeachment Hearings Against Judge&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/22\/links-for-2009-04-22\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">links for 2009-04-22<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}