{"id":5142,"date":"2012-05-10T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2012-05-10T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T13:30:49","slug":"things-heard-e220v4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5142","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e220v4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Irrespective of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/i-dont-think-argument-for-gay-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">contents of this particular debate<\/a>, I think Ms Althouse is spot on in noting that any argument that depends\/blends on personal anecode is cheapened and weakened. So why is it so often used?<\/li>\n<li>Of tea\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/richardfernandez\/2012\/05\/09\/when-does-the-unusual-become-inevitable\/\" target=\"_blank\">leaves and primaries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/we-need-to-talk-about-keith-judd.html\" target=\"_blank\">And this primary<\/a>? What of it?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2012\/05\/10\/nasas-james-hansen-is-right\/\" target=\"_blank\">A revenue neutral tax<\/a>? Hows that work? Sounds like no tax at all. Or a linguistic dodge. You can have a revenue neutral tax\u00a0<em>policy<\/em>, which entails manipulations of a number of different taxes raising some and lowering others. But you can&#8217;t, for example, enact a revenue new tax and have it not be 0. That&#8217;s mathematically impossible.<\/li>\n<li>A long way of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/2012\/05\/puters-done-with-this-pay-your-fair.html\" target=\"_blank\">saying pointing out what should be obvious<\/a>, that the high wage earning\u00a0management\u00a0types &#8230; work really hard. The pretense is that they don&#8217;t work or work very little. That&#8217;s amazingly far from the truth.<\/li>\n<li>Our state considers its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/weight-rabbit.html\" target=\"_blank\">next encroachments on freedom<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Reading this, I was wondering\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2012\/05\/whats-hbo-gos-problem\/256919\/\" target=\"_blank\">if never-had-cable are considered akin to cable cutters<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>900k signatures for recall, 1\/3 of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/29711.html\" target=\"_blank\">which didn&#8217;t bother even voting in the primary<\/a>. Odd that.<\/li>\n<li>Wrapping up our maths\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/08\/a-look-at-a-few-tripos-questions-v\/\" target=\"_blank\">fun for the last week or so<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, stop trying\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/Obama-Guns-AND-Butter\" target=\"_blank\">to make sense of political rhetoric<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/05\/09\/excuse-me-maam-theres-a-man-climbing-up-your-tights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fashion<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Irrespective of the\u00a0contents of this particular debate, I think Ms Althouse is spot on in noting that any argument that depends\/blends on personal anecode is cheapened and weakened. So why is it so often used? Of tea\u00a0leaves and primaries. And this primary? What of it? A revenue neutral tax? Hows that work? Sounds [&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-5142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}