{"id":5801,"date":"2013-05-30T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2013-05-30T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T13:50:28","slug":"things-heard-e259v3n4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5801","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e259v3n4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yo.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span>The tip\/top\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/05\/the-lois-lerner-state-92013.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">of the iceberg<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Holder and the lying game &#8230; in a word, weak tea &#8230; supported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2013\/05\/29\/did-eric-holder-lie-to-congress\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.volokh.com\/2013\/05\/29\/if-thats-the-case-for-holder-lying-under-oath-its-not-just-weak-its-bordering-o-silly\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>More\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neoneocon.com\/2013\/05\/29\/holder-obamas-sin-eater\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">on Holder here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/113299\/leon-wieseltier-commencement-speech-brandeis-university-2013#\" target=\"_blank\">commencement address of note<\/a> without inappropriate jokes (HT:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/academia-2.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Burgess-Jackson<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/2013\/05\/29\/child-prostitution-in-bangladesh-victim-of-exploitation\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Yikes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/182060\/michele-bachmann-did-nothing-literally\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Put that same metric<\/a> on Mr Obama and Mr Kerry (the last two Democrat Presidential) and they too &#8220;did nothing&#8221;. \u00a0But I doubt Mr McElwee would say they did nothing. Why might that be?<\/li>\n<li>Brendan points out some of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2013\/05\/throwing-out-the-baby-with-bentham\" target=\"_blank\">the real failings of consequentialism<\/a>. I might add that a wise friend of mine equated asceticism with prayer.<\/li>\n<li>The capstone of the liberal media\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/noel-sheppard\/2013\/05\/29\/msnbcs-ratings-freefall?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">not doing so well<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Coming to a zoo near\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/5\/29\/4377028\/woolly-mammoth-tissue-liquid-blood-discovered-russia?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">you in a decade or so<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/susy-gut-with-a4-six-predictions-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fine tuning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Marriage, France\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/2013\/05\/we-will-surrender-nothing?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">and a speech<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So will that end the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2013\/05\/combat-deaths-now-considered-acts-of-allah-no-longer-covered-by-life-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">homicide bombers terror trend<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/05\/29\/august-smart-lock\/?utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">lock<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bedejournal.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/quote-of-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">quote<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/betweenletters.com\/post\/51678764220\/we-expect-anything-and-everything-we-expect-the?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Another<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1589&amp;utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">travels in time<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/spitfire-944.html\" target=\"_blank\">short film<\/a>, beware the dust in the air.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/2013\/05\/obamas-lsat-score.html?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">Academic mediocrity and our President<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A film\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cruciality.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/29\/waiting-for-hannah-arendt\/?utm_source=feedly\" target=\"_blank\">noted<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yo. The tip\/top\u00a0of the iceberg. Holder and the lying game &#8230; in a word, weak tea &#8230; supported\u00a0here and\u00a0here. More\u00a0on Holder here. A\u00a0commencement address of note without inappropriate jokes (HT:\u00a0Mr Burgess-Jackson). Yikes. Put that same metric on Mr Obama and Mr Kerry (the last two Democrat Presidential) and they too &#8220;did nothing&#8221;. \u00a0But I doubt [&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-5801","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\/5801","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=5801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}