{"id":5977,"date":"2012-01-05T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/05\/links-for-2012-01-05\/"},"modified":"2012-01-05T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T07:51:09","slug":"links-for-2012-01-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/05\/links-for-2012-01-05\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-01-05"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/01\/the-messenger\/250685\/'>The Messenger &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates &#8211; Politics &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought a lot about Farrakhan, recently, watching Ron Paul&#8217;s backers twist themselves in knots to defend what they have now euphemistically label as &#8220;baggage.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think it makes much sense to try to rebut the charges here. No minds will be changed.  Still let us remember that we are faced with a candidate who published racism under his name, defended that publication when it was convenient, and blamed it on ghost-writers when it wasn&#8217;t, whose take on the Civil War is at home with Lost-Causers, and whose take on the Civil Rights Act is at home with segregationists. Ostensibly this is all coincidence, or if it isn&#8217;t, it should be excused because Ron Paul is a lone voice speaking on the important issues that plague our nation. I have heard this reasoning before.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailyriff.com\/articles\/teaching-students-to-ask-their-own-good-questions-845.php'>A Holiday Dinner Conversation: Why didn&#8217;t I learn this in school? &#8211; THE DAILY RIFF &#8211; Be Smarter. About Education.<\/a>\n<p>This was a family dinner, not a job interview.  Yet, I noticed after thinking about it more &#8211; something strange about the dinner conversation.  The grads didn&#8217;t ask any real or authentic questions.  They weren&#8217;t curious. When the conversation took a turn about a few current events, one linking to a columnist in The Washington Post, and another to The New York Times, both gave the deer-in-the-headlight-look and one murmured &#8220;must&#8217;ve missed it due to finals (exams).&#8221;  The adults tried to engage more by soliciting some opinions.  Nothing. Okay.  We go on vacations, immerse in a no-distraction mode for long-term projects, barely checking on anything but breakthrough news, but there was a void in this conversation. Surely, you must have a question, at least asked by Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=wqPDc98Tk_E'>more owl tennis &#8211; YouTube<\/a>\n<p>Because some days you just want to see owls playing with tennis balls.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/obama-openly-asks-nation-why-on-earth-he-would-wan%2C26933\/'>Obama Openly Asks Nation Why On Earth He Would Want To Serve For Another Term | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a>\n<p>&#8220;My fellow Americans, I come to you today to ask, why?&#8221; Obama said to 1,200 people gathered inside a gymnasium at Taylor Allderdice High School. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t our congressional leaders work together to create jobs? Why can&#8217;t Wall Street ever be held accountable? And most important, why on God&#8217;s green earth would I voluntarily subject myself to this nonsense for another four years?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Messenger &#8211; Ta-Nehisi Coates &#8211; Politics &#8211; The Atlantic I&#8217;ve thought a lot about Farrakhan, recently, watching Ron Paul&#8217;s backers twist themselves in knots to defend what they have now euphemistically label as &#8220;baggage.&#8221; I don&#8217;t think it makes much sense to try to rebut the charges here. No minds will be changed. Still&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/01\/05\/links-for-2012-01-05\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-01-05<\/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-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","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=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}