{"id":245,"date":"2003-12-16T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-16T23:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:20:25","slug":"blog-me-4ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/16\/blog-me-4ever\/","title":{"rendered":"blog me 4ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformer.com\/Stories\/0,1413,102%7E8854%7E1834257,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">must-read<br \/>\neditorial,<\/a><\/b> in the Brattleboro Reformer, begins, &quot;Amidst the giddy<br \/>\nparty mood spawned by the capture of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, it&#8217;s<br \/>\nimportant to interject a sobering fact: Saddam Hussein is not Osama bin Laden.&quot;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reformer.com\/Stories\/0,1413,102~8854~1834257,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">read<br \/>\nmore: Brattleboro Reformer &#8211; Today&#8217;s Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/president\/dean\/articles\/2003\/12\/16\/dean_doctrine_stresses_alliances\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Dean<br \/>\ndoctrine&#8217; [that] stresses alliances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In art news, the RRF festival has left the &#8220;now we realize the Biennale de Paris<br \/>\njust has an impressive name,&#8221; also taking <a href=\"\/gallery\/hektornet.html\" target=\"_top\">hektor.net<\/a><br \/>\noff the bill. I guess we won&#8217;t always have Paris.<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/coin-operated.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah to the<br \/>\nB and the C (Brucker-Cohen)<\/a> and his blog for pointing me to this cool project:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ugcs.caltech.edu\/~sethml\/ropod\/\" target=\"_blank\">The One and<br \/>\nOnly ROPOD<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A must-read editorial, in the Brattleboro Reformer, begins, &quot;Amidst the giddy party mood spawned by the capture of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, it&#8217;s important to interject a sobering fact: Saddam Hussein is not Osama bin Laden.&quot; read more: Brattleboro Reformer &#8211; Today&#8217;s Editorial And here&#8217;s more on the &#8216;Dean doctrine&#8217; [that] stresses alliances In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-3X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/bush-and-hussein\/","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":0},"title":"Bush and Hussein","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 February 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you seen the summary of this interview that Dan Rather did with Saddam Hussein? At minimum, we know that this man is more articulate than the US president. Do I trust \/ believe him? Not really. Do I trust \/ believe Bush? Not really. I think what's smart about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":493,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/values-nuh-uh-ignorance\/","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":1},"title":"values? nuh-uh; ignorance!","author":"nathaniel","date":"09 November 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to my pop for this article: The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Voting Without the Facts I think a case could be made that ignorance played at least as big a role in the election's outcome as values. 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I didn't see an imminent\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":243,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/16\/mr-moore-i-assume\/","url_meta":{"origin":245,"position":3},"title":"mr moore i assume","author":"nathaniel","date":"16 December 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Nathaniel's (actually, an edited version of Michael Moore's) must-reads for the day: Is Dean Toast? - Saddam's capture doesn't guarantee Bush's re-election. 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