{"id":13072,"date":"2013-09-25T09:32:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=13072"},"modified":"2013-09-25T09:32:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T16:32:54","slug":"links-337","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/09\/25\/links-337\/","title":{"rendered":"links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/09\/how-alcohol-conquered-russia\/279965\/\">How Russia became Alcoholic<\/a>, and the government&#8217;s contradictory attempts on that score. \u00c2\u00a0Leaves out Yeltsin for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>Gle<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/beck-rants-against-obamas-transformation-of-america-were-literally-living-in-1984\/\">nn Beck misuses the word &#8220;litera<\/a>lly&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0Unless, you know, you&#8217;re actually in a book. \u00c2\u00a0Or this is somehow the year 1984.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2013\/09\/twitter-could-threaten-your-privacy-more-facebook\">Twitter more invasive than Facebook n<\/a>ow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2425330\/Nine-10-British-men-fake-love-sports-impress-friends-colleagues.html\">9 out of 10 British men lie about liking sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2013\/09\/slate-pitch-obama-shrewd-political-strategist\">Counter-intuitive: \u00c2\u00a0Obama&#8217;s playing his second term well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From Harpers: \u00c2\u00a0Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi announced that he would not relinquish his senate seat despite a conviction for tax fraud earlier this year and a police investigation into his alleged solicitation of underage prostitutes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Berlusconi is on trial for living with women,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russian president Vladimir Putin. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If he were homosexual, nobody would dare touch him.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<sup><a title=\"New York Times: Berlusconi Stakes a Claim for Relevance, but Avoids Threats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/19\/world\/europe\/berlusconi-stakes-a-claim-for-relevance-but-avoids-threats.html\">[20]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a title=\"Reuters: Berlusconi would not have been tried if gay: Putin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/09\/19\/us-russia-putin-berlusconi-idUSBRE98I0X020130919\">[21]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Facebook apologized for permitting an online-dating site to run an ad featuring the photograph of a girl who committed suicide after she was gang-raped then taunted on Facebook, and Coca-Cola apologized to the family of an autistic girl after her sister discovered the words YOU RETARD printed under a bottle cap.<sup><a title=\"ValleyWag: Facebook Used the Image of a Dead Cyber-bullying Victim in a Dating Ad\" href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.gawker.com\/facebook-used-the-image-of-a-dead-cyber-bullying-victim-1348780454\">[27]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a title=\"Metro: Coca-Cola apologizes to Alberta family for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcYOU RETARD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bottle cap\" href=\"http:\/\/metronews.ca\/news\/edmonton\/799469\/coke-apologizes-to-alberta-family-for-you-retard-bottle-cap\/\">[28]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>J<a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/article\/153302\">efferson Lies lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>M<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/Man-Attempts-to-Pay-Water-Bill-with-Cocaine-Deputies--225022842.html\">an attempts to pay water bill with Crack Cocaine, doesn&#8217;t succee<\/a>d.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"yiv2842118633yui_3_7_2_36_1380072493189_60\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_slatest\/2013\/09\/24\/_2012_intrade_paper_suggests_a_single_intrade_trader_spent_millions_to_make.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A single better laid about a third of the bets for Romney&#8217;s election chances on in-trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"yiv2842118633yui_3_7_2_36_1380072493189_69\" href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/article\/153359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Powell Memo and the &#8220;End of the American Dream&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From The National Review:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/358914\/food-stamps-thought-henry-olsen\">The Conservative War on Food Stamps is the most baffling political move of the year<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0(go after Crop support, not the poor.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/23\/opinion\/krugman-free-to-be-hungry.html?_r=0\">Paul Krugman weighs in<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd on big agri-business: \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/tom-philpott\/2013\/09\/does-corporate-farming-exist-barely\">the farming business actually remains with the farmers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>T<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalstrangenames.blogspot.com\/\">he strangest names in political histor<\/a>y. \u00c2\u00a0Like frogs?<\/p>\n<p>So. \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/worldpress.org\/Mideast\/3983.cfm\">What&#8217;s going on in Egypt<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Russia became Alcoholic, and the government&#8217;s contradictory attempts on that score. \u00c2\u00a0Leaves out Yeltsin for some reason. Glenn Beck misuses the word &#8220;literally&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0Unless, you know, you&#8217;re actually in a book. \u00c2\u00a0Or this is somehow the year 1984. Twitter more invasive than Facebook now. 9 out of 10 British men lie about liking sports. 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