{"id":5300,"date":"2010-12-30T07:47:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T07:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/30\/links-for-2010-12-30\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T07:47:46","slug":"links-for-2010-12-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/30\/links-for-2010-12-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2010-12-30"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2010\/12\/excruciating.html\">slacktivist: Excruciating<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The work of a senator doesn&#8217;t have to be so painful. If you find yourself complaining because you&#8217;re being forced to defend indefensible positions by voting on them, it might be that the problem doesn&#8217;t lie with those forcing you to cast a vote and take a stand. It seems more likely that the problem lies with where you have chosen to stand and why you have chosen to stand there.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/slacktivist\">slacktivist<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/gender\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/anna_griffin\/index.ssf\/2010\/11\/lets_all_adopt_the_attitude_no.html\">Anna Griffin: Let&#8217;s all adopt the attitude: No whining on the yacht | OregonLive.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;In the name of full disclosure, let me admit straight off that this new personal operating principle is not an original production. I stole it from U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer over coffee last month, a week before the election. We were talking about how bad things looked for the Democratic Party, and I noted that this must be a stressful time for the congressman, what with all the cross-country travel he does, the lack of economic good news and the prospect of being back in the minority soon. <\/p>\n<p>No, he agreed, these aren&#8217;t the happiest of days. &#8220;But we have a saying in my family: No whining on the yacht.&#8221; &#8220;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/society\">society<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/us\">us<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/class-war\">class-war<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/world\">world<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophybro.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/platos-allegory-of-cave-summary.html\">Philosophy Bro: Plato&#8217;s &#8220;The Allegory of the Cave&#8221;: A Summary<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Socrates: &#8220;Why do people think philosophy is bullshit? Let me put it this way &#8211; imagine you&#8217;re in a cave, all chained up so you can&#8217;t turn your body at all, and all you get to look at is this one wall. Some assholes behind you are making shadow puppets using the light from a fire and making echo noises and that&#8217;s all you or anyone else chained up has seen or heard all your life. Sounds terrible, right? Except it&#8217;s all you&#8217;ve ever known, shadows and echoes, and that&#8217;s your whole world &#8211; there&#8217;s no way you could know that, really, you&#8217;re watching a slightly-improved M. Night Shyamalan film.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/history\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/literature\">literature<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/orzelc\/humanities\">humanities<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slacktivist: Excruciating &#8220;The work of a senator doesn&#8217;t have to be so painful. If you find yourself complaining because you&#8217;re being forced to defend indefensible positions by voting on them, it might be that the problem doesn&#8217;t lie with those forcing you to cast a vote and take a stand. It seems more likely that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/30\/links-for-2010-12-30\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2010-12-30<\/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-5300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300","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=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}