{"id":2406,"date":"2009-02-05T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2009-02-05T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T01:38:11","slug":"busy-day-all-you-get-is-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"Busy day. All you get is links."},"content":{"rendered":"

Though essentially a lazy guy, <\/strong>I kind of like busy days. They go by fast, bringing me that much closer to the lonely, sordid death that awaits me, and the sweet rest that will surely follow (unless the Catholics are right).<\/p>\n

One drawback of busy days is that I generally come out of them without anything to blog about. Unless the busy day was interesting in itself. Which this one wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So I shall link to things.<\/p>\n

First, the nasty one. How can anyone read this story<\/a> and not believe in the existence of evil?<\/p>\n

Of course, Christians used to have witch trials five centuries ago, and that proves that this woman and Sarah Palin are indistinguishable.<\/p>\n

In cheerier news, the Swedes are contemplating building new nuclear reactors<\/a>, after years of mandatory The China Syndrome<\/i> revivals. This has got to be big news, because (as everybody knows) Swedes are remarkably slow-witted. If they\u2019re getting the message, everybody else must be pretty well won over.<\/p>\n

Finally, courtesy of this list<\/a> at SEO By the Sea<\/i> (courtesy, in turn, of Conservative Grapevine<\/a>), I learned that people in Guangzhou, China can read this blog. I\u2019m rather surprised. Disappointed, in a way. What do we have to do to be considered running dogs of imperialism?
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Though essentially a lazy guy, I kind of like busy days. They go by fast, bringing me that much closer to the lonely, sordid death that awaits me, and the sweet rest that will surely follow (unless the Catholics are right). One drawback of busy days is that I generally come out of them without … Continue reading Busy day. All you get is links.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}