{"id":18462,"date":"2019-08-30T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T00:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2019-08-30T17:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T00:44:58","slug":"links-620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/08\/30\/links-620\/","title":{"rendered":"links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/2019\/08\/28\/a-humorless-president\/\">The Washington Monthly humanizes the president and tries to stoke my personal grievance by demonizing a personal foible that I share with <\/a>him.\u00c2\u00a0 (Not the first time for this affect&#8230; see, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/03\/02\/the-way-we-live-in-our-culture-and-dont-see-it\/\">dietry habits<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<em>Should I apologize for not laughing more<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/whats-a-biden-word-worth-joe-biden-war-stories\/#comment-4596771283\">What to make of Joseph Biden&#8217;s latest fabricated story<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 To some extent, they all seem to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, but it would be better if Chelsea Clinton indeed did say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/chelsea-clinton-satanism-respect\/\">Satanism deserves respect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2019\/08\/space-race-dogs-chimpanzees-monkeys\/597166\/\">Why Soviets Sent Dogs to Space While Americans Used Primates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-08-25\/how-macron-pulled-a-fast-one-on-trump-with-a-gamble-over-iran\">Macron tries to get Trump to do the right thing, and backs Trump into talking with Iranian official about renewing the Nuclear Dea<\/a>l.<br \/>\n&#8230; I suppose some cosmetic changes for the Iran &#8220;art of the deal&#8221;&#8230; cover<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to Plants can take-up microplastics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c should we be happy about it? [new study]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.improbable.com\/2019\/08\/30\/plants-can-take-up-microplastics-should-we-be-happy-about-it-new-study\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Plants can take-up microplastics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c should we be happy about it? [new study]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the moment my best guess is Trump loses the next election, but the political analysis here is all wrong:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/article\/172878\">it&#8217;s not about &#8220;winning the Jewish vote&#8221; (after all, neo-nazis support him and they&#8217;re sensitive to refugee and migrant treatment), it&#8217;s about winning a batch of the Jewish vote<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(after all, the Squad is shirky to Israel&#8217;s right to defend itself).\u00c2\u00a0 The 10 point drop off from Obama 08 to 12 is significant, ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<article class=\"Body\">\n<div class=\"Body__content\">\n<div class=\"Mobiledoc\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"StoryFooter\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Monthly humanizes the president and tries to stoke my personal grievance by demonizing a personal foible that I share with him.\u00c2\u00a0 (Not the first time for this affect&#8230; see, dietry habits.)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Should I apologize for not laughing more? What to make of Joseph Biden&#8217;s latest fabricated story?\u00c2\u00a0 To some extent, they all seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erstwhere","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18480,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions\/18480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}