{"id":5535,"date":"2012-11-06T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2012-11-06T09:17:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T14:17:01","slug":"things-heard-e245v1n2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5535","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e245v1n2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Have a happy election day, y&#8217;all. And no, your vote doesn&#8217;t matter, what you are doing is a liturgical communal act validating righteousness of the electoral process.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a prediction from the right what\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/10-Reasons-To-Be-Happy-If-Obama-Gets-A-Second-Term\" target=\"_blank\">will happen if they lose<\/a>. Has anyone seen similar predictions from the left?<\/li>\n<li>Today we vote, our democratic ritual. About rituals and religion you ask? Here,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/glory2godforallthings.com\/2012\/10\/31\/empty-ritual\/\" target=\"_blank\">try this<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall.org\/~aron\/blog\/?p=137\" target=\"_blank\">10 symmetries<\/a>. 10 conserved quantities.<\/li>\n<li>A house which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/11\/05\/3-foot-wide-house-squeezed-into-a-tiny-polish-alleyway-between-buildings\/\" target=\"_blank\">says a lot about property values<\/a> (and &#8230; not having kids?)<\/li>\n<li>People who say &#8220;there are no stupid questions&#8221; &#8230; never attended lectures,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/yes-there-are-stupid-questions.html\" target=\"_blank\">but in the meantime<\/a> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Politicians\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/betweenletters.com\/post\/35074724183\/people-will-forget-what-you-said-people-will\" target=\"_blank\">and their lies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A political scientist offers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/The-States-Ordered-Left-to-Right-How-to-Predict-the-Election-Early-Tuesday-Night\" target=\"_blank\">his two cents<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Health and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/05\/mathematics-meets-real-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Fields Medal winner<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/orthodoxwayoflife.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/how-to-conduct-ourselves-in-illness.html\" target=\"_blank\">of health<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.languagehat.com\/archives\/004806.php\" target=\"_blank\">book recommended<\/a>. I bought a copy.<\/li>\n<li>Today the WSJ opinion section has an article pointing out that Dodd-Frank encourages moving high finance overseas &#8230; which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2012\/11\/05\/obamacare-encourages-shift-to-part-time-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\">is interesting in conjunction with this<\/a>. There&#8217;s lots of talk about &#8220;unintended consequences&#8221; &#8230; what is largely ignored are the easy-to-anticipate consequences like these.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2012\/11\/04\/what-would-it-have-meant-to-let-detroit-go-bankrupt\/\" target=\"_blank\">auto bailout<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Krugman jousts with straw men,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/caseymulligan.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/we-are-supposed-to-trust-them-with.html\" target=\"_blank\">but not unnoticed by all<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t anticipate any problems with using\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politics.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/11\/04\/1312259\/new-jersey-residents-displaced-by-storm-can-vote-by-email\" target=\"_blank\">open unsecured unverifiable mechanisms for voting<\/a>. Can you?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Have a happy election day, y&#8217;all. And no, your vote doesn&#8217;t matter, what you are doing is a liturgical communal act validating righteousness of the electoral process. Here&#8217;s a prediction from the right what\u00a0will happen if they lose. Has anyone seen similar predictions from the left? Today we vote, our democratic ritual. 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