{"id":6492,"date":"2014-12-29T19:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2014-12-29T19:34:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T00:34:02","slug":"links-2014-12-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6492","title":{"rendered":"Links: 2014.12.29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Back to it, after all, I haven&#8217;t stopped reading and saving links, just reporting them. So, what&#8217;s in the backlog.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-the-coolest-150-watch-in-the-world-2014-12\" target=\"_blank\">x-mas suggestion<\/a> for the old-calendar practitioners who haven&#8217;t gotten anything yet. (For those who don&#8217;t know, much of the Easter Orthodox are still on the Julian calendar 13 days later than the Gregorian\u00a0until the end of the century. This is why the Orthodox Easter\/Pascha is so wildly different from the West, as both are based on the full moon after the spring equinox, but &#8230; when that equinox is changes by 13 days).<\/li>\n<li>Mr Degrasse&#8217;s 8 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/12\/29\/neil-degrasse-tyson-reading-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">books everyone should read<\/a>&#8220;. Yikes.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t a clue whether <a href=\"http:\/\/dsadevil.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/riding-up-and-down-criticism-ladder.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Schraub disapproves or approves<\/a> but, geesh, anyone who holds Israel and ISIS as morally equivalent is ethically blind and should be regarded functionally as a psychopath.<\/li>\n<li>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/12\/17\/what-the-cia-torture-report-and-rolling-stones-u-va-story-have-in-common\/\" target=\"_blank\">another equivalence, <\/a><em>possibly<\/em> slightly less morally suspect.<\/li>\n<li>Yet again, <a href=\"http:\/\/triablogue.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/prima-facie-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\">repeat <\/a><em>ad infintum<\/em>, the argument against torture is not gotten via consequentialism.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/12\/19\/fcc-rejects-redskins-claim-and-the-argument-that-the-term-is-constitutionally-unprotected-hate-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">up to speed on hate speech and the legal status of same<\/a>, but as a layperson one would be lead to suspect that &#8220;hate speech&#8221; should involve in some way, you know, actual hate or even mild dislike.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of which, <a href=\"http:\/\/whatswrongwiththeworld.net\/2014\/12\/what_is_harassment.html\" target=\"_blank\">there are plenty of liberals <\/a>who clearly hate conservatives. I wonder if their hate-speech microscope will be turned on themselves in this regard?<\/li>\n<li>Union labor and <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/46940.html\" target=\"_blank\">why it sucks<\/a>\u00a0so often.<\/li>\n<li>Very <a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/67413505?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_reader=feedly&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+failblog+(The+FAIL+Blog+-+Fail+Pictures+%26+Videos+at+Failblog.ORG)\" target=\"_blank\">cool<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/12\/stuff-and-money-in-the-time-of-the-french-revolution.html\" target=\"_blank\">Graft and <\/a>equalite, liberte, fraternite (and buckets of blood).<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/16\/making-m1-garand\/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_reader=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\">gun<\/a> (which is sort of on my wish-I-had-one list)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Back to it, after all, I haven&#8217;t stopped reading and saving links, just reporting them. So, what&#8217;s in the backlog. Here&#8217;s a x-mas suggestion for the old-calendar practitioners who haven&#8217;t gotten anything yet. (For those who don&#8217;t know, much of the Easter Orthodox are still on the Julian calendar 13 days later than the [&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-6492","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\/6492","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=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}