{"id":5062,"date":"2012-04-03T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5062"},"modified":"2012-04-03T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:15:22","slug":"things-heard-e215v2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5062","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e215v2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/04\/02\/cats-arent-atheists-but-they-couldnt-ever-start-a-religion-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cats<\/a> &#8230; or is a dig at the modern atheists?<\/li>\n<li>Death\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/you-always-get-themask-any-serving.html\" target=\"_blank\">and the road<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>State visit,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shadow.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/04\/02\/advancing_us_kurdish_relations_deliverables_for_the_barzani_visit\" target=\"_blank\">and suggestions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ordinary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/blog\/?p=18267\" target=\"_blank\">or extra-ordinary<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Unintended (or not?)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/judging-double-standards\" target=\"_blank\">consequences of affirmative action<\/a>. It&#8217;s not sexism, is aff-action and consequence. If you lower standards for groups, people expect that standards were lowered. People are odd that way.<\/li>\n<li>Replacing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/04\/02\/how-to-get-a-liberal-arts-education-for-2-a-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">the meditative staring into fire at night<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A suggestion\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2012\/04\/02\/privatizing-marriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">for marriage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Our President (with a little Presidential hypocrisy noted)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2012\/04\/02\/the-president-vs-the-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">and the courts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What I fail to understand is how\/why the liberal\/progressives\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/jeffrey-meyer\/2012\/04\/02\/once-again-nbc-selectively-edits-audio-tape-political-means\" target=\"_blank\">manage to not get outraged<\/a> by this sort of thing. Don&#8217;t they think a reliable media is important?<\/li>\n<li>Our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/295085\/gsa-chief-resigns-over-outlandish-spending-daniel-foster\" target=\"_blank\">budget watchdogs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Taking on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rwcg.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/02\/why-better-markets-no-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Volcker rule<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A little maths\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/02\/a-cheap-version-of-nonstandard-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\">to go with your morning coffee<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Cats &#8230; or is a dig at the modern atheists? Death\u00a0and the road. State visit,\u00a0and suggestions. Ordinary\u00a0or extra-ordinary? Unintended (or not?)\u00a0consequences of affirmative action. It&#8217;s not sexism, is aff-action and consequence. If you lower standards for groups, people expect that standards were lowered. People are odd that way. Replacing\u00a0the meditative staring into fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Good morning. Cats ... or is a dig at the modern atheists? Death and the road. State visit, and suggestions. Ordinary or extra-ordinary? Unintended (or not?) consequences of affirmative action. It&#039;s not sexism, is aff-action and consequence. If you lower standards for groups, people expect that standards were lowered. People are odd that way. 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