{"id":5305,"date":"2012-07-06T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2012-07-06T09:13:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:13:46","slug":"things-heard-e229v5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5305","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e229v5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>As people in US talk about the lifeguard\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/152125\/can-employers-in-the-business-of-lifeguarding-enforce-depraved-indifference-to-certain-human-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">who was fired because his employer<\/a> (probably rightly) feared liability suits. This struck me as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/07\/the-culture-that-is-germany-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">similar in some ways<\/a>, culture\/politics\/law coming to the wrong conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>Academic freedom? Or just a complete\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/did-this-human-sexuality-class-amount.html\" target=\"_blank\">lack of pedagogical sanity<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Smelling another big war (read as global conflagration)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/voxday.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/impeccable-timing.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the next decade or so<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hope\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/khanya.wordpress.com\/2012\/07\/06\/a-new-beginning-a-new-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\">and prayer<\/a> &#8230; found and needed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farleftside.com\/2012\/7-6-12-elephant-jokes.html\" target=\"_blank\">In which the left thinks<\/a> that painting themselves as the Nazi Jew haters is a good move. I&#8217;m just a bit confused by that strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Some advice regarding\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2012\/07\/06\/court-did-not-authorize-economic-mandates-under-the-tax-power\/\" target=\"_blank\">the tax\/Obamacare ruling<\/a>. I have a question for those watching the &#8220;tax vs penalty&#8221; debate? Is the child rebate in the tax code a penalty or a tax on those without children?<\/li>\n<li>DADT and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/byztex.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/met-jonah-prescient-on-dont-ask-dont.html\" target=\"_blank\">the chaplaincy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of places are citing the large storms resulting in power outages over the Eastern US as signs of global warming, &#8217;cause that storm was so unusual. Alas\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/2012\/07\/el-derecho-la-izquierda.html\" target=\"_blank\">it wasn&#8217;t<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/archives\/004676.php\" target=\"_blank\">reminds me of William Safire&#8217;s<\/a> grammar puns, for example &#8220;A preposition is something that you should never end a sentence with.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com\/tallskinnykiwi\/2012\/07\/3-books-from-2011-that-you-should-have-read.html\" target=\"_blank\">Recommended books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A health care &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/what-happens-if-states-turn-down.html\" target=\"_blank\">what if&#8221; considered<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The culture\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isegoria.net\/2012\/07\/jonathan-haidt-knows-why-we-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\">war and demographic collapse<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A lights show &#8230; what I\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wdtprs.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/all-alone-in-the-night\/\" target=\"_blank\">noticed most was the lightning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/prospect.org\/article\/florida-attacks-bain-capital-are-working\" target=\"_blank\">&#8217;cause in Florida they dislike shopping<\/a> at Staples and Home Depot.<\/li>\n<li>And we&#8217;ll finish with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/07\/05\/i-think-the-copier-is-broken\/\" target=\"_blank\">a slight understatement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. As people in US talk about the lifeguard\u00a0who was fired because his employer (probably rightly) feared liability suits. This struck me as\u00a0similar in some ways, culture\/politics\/law coming to the wrong conclusion. Academic freedom? Or just a complete\u00a0lack of pedagogical sanity? Smelling another big war (read as global conflagration)\u00a0in the next decade or so. 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