{"id":335,"date":"2003-08-16T06:58:49","date_gmt":"2003-08-16T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/16\/some-stuff-ampersand-is-reading-today\/"},"modified":"2003-08-16T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2003-08-16T14:58:49","slug":"some-stuff-ampersand-is-reading-today-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Some stuff Ampersand is reading today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/article.cfm?ItemID=15459\">Greg Palast <\/a>discusses the cause of the blackouts, and provides a brief (and enjoyably biased) history of power deregulation. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/elayneriggs.blogspot.com\/2003_08_01_elayneriggs_archive.html#106097100312288222\">Elayne Riggs<\/a>.\n<li>A lot of bloggers have gone &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; this week. I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blah3.com\/graymatter\/archives\/00000420.html\">a lot <\/a>of bloggers. (Once again, via <a href=\"http:\/\/elayneriggs.blogspot.com\/2003_08_01_elayneriggs_archive.html#106096122094347406\">Elayne Riggs<\/a>).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/001213.html#001213\">Matthew Yglesias <\/a>critiques a recent <i>New Yorker <\/i>article on helping poor folks via government &#8220;marriage incentives&#8221; programs. As he points out, the needy woman profiled in the article could be helped with much more certainty by a well-funded bus system.\n<li><i>Wired <\/i>has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.09\/diamond.html\">fascinating article <\/a>about new technology for manufacturing diamonds &#8211; but these are real diamonds, not cubic zirconia. If so, the potential benefits are endless: faster personal computers, cheaper gems for all, the undercutting of the &#8220;blood diamond trade,&#8221; and the screwing over of De Beers, one of the most evil corporations in the world. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/heron61\/160586.html\">Blueheron<\/a>.\n<li>When George Bush meets a U.S. soldier, does he need to struggle to keep himself from openly sneering and spitting at the soldier? I wonder. Anyhow, check out this well-done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takebackthemedia.com\/onearmy.html\">flash animation <\/a>on the subject, linked to by <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/003294.html#003294\">Making Light<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigsandfishes.org\/links\/weblog\/archives.html?year=2003&#038;month=08&#038;day=03#20030803185202\">Pigs and Fishes <\/a>does a wonderful and intelligent job ripping apart an anti-gay-marriage argument.\n<li>Sometimes it&#8217;s hard not to like mob violence. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloggie.org\/wissewords\/index.php?entry=\/100803.txt\">Wis[s]e Words <\/a>has an example of what I mean, from Argentina.\n<li>In the last several years, I&#8217;ve paid literally hundreds of dollars in overdue library fines. It&#8217;s because I tend to take dozens of books out at a time, so if I forget to renew for even a short period the fines build up very quickly. But as the <a href=\"http:\/\/headheeb.blogspot.com\/2003_08_10_headheeb_archive.html#106079596914151744\">Head Heeb <\/a>recounts, I&#8217;ve gotten off <i>very<\/i> lightly compared to poor old Henry Justice.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bodyandsoul.typepad.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/making_the_cali.html\">Body and Soul<\/a> discusses a recent article on the ongoing tragedy of Afghanistan, and relates it to the tragedy-in-the-making that is our Iraq policy.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/users.adelphia.net\/~enitria\/trish_wilson\/blog\/archives\/august_2003.html#000315\">Trish Wilson <\/a>dissects the so-called &#8220;war on boys&#8221; in higher education.<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buying-cheap-maxalt-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Palast discusses the cause of the blackouts, and provides a brief (and enjoyably biased) history of power deregulation. Via Elayne Riggs. A lot of bloggers have gone &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; this week. I mean, a lot of bloggers. (Once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=335\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}