{"id":1157,"date":"2009-01-04T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-01-07T12:50:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T20:50:34","slug":"miscellany-january-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany, January 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Canadian blog <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/\">Gods of the Copybook Headings<\/a> &#8212; and is anyone here unfamiliar with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnderbyshire.com\/Readings\/gods.html\">classic Kipling secular-rightish poem<\/a> (bonus Bradlaugh content!) alluded to in that title? &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/godscopybook.blogs.com\/gpb\/2008\/12\/a-year-end-interview-with-publius.html\">interviews its founder\/chief blogger<\/a> about his classical liberal views (<a href=\"http:\/\/westernstandard.blogs.com\/shotgun\/2009\/01\/liberalism-conservatism-and-natural-law.html\">via<\/a>);<\/li>\n<li>Bon mot <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/journals\/law.ars\/2009\/01\/02\/reinventing-conservatism-one-tweet-at-a-time\">from Julian Sanchez<\/a>: &#8220;Abstraction has a way of masking disagreement: Everybody&#8217;s in favor of &#8216;liberty,&#8217; for some values of &#8216;liberty.'&#8221; The whole article, on efforts by conservatives to organize online, is worth reading.<\/li>\n<li>Things are different in Britain. There&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/emergence-of-conservative-humanist.html\">splash<\/a> about the Conservative Humanist Association. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123094404164150567.html?mod=djemEditorialPage\">London&#8217;s amazing and dynamic Mayor Boris Johnson<\/a>. And now comes word that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/mandrake\/4092724\/David-Camerons-rising-star-Nick-Herbert-marries-his-boyfriend.html\">not one but two MPs<\/a> in David Cameron&#8217;s Tory Shadow Cabinet, likely ministers in a future Conservative government, have entered civil partnerships with their same-sex partners. Per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debatableland.com\/the_debatable_land\/2009\/01\/transatlantic-differences.html\">Alex Massie<\/a>, Shadow Justice Minister Nick Herbert &#8220;worked for the British Field Sports Society (ie, the fox-hunting and grouse-shooting lobby) for six years before entering parliament. Culturally at least, that organisation is to the Tory party rather what the National Rifle Association is to the GOP.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01042009\/postopinion\/postopbooks\/the_invention_of_air_147093.htm\">Tabloid report<\/a>: Mob sacks and burns Joseph Priestley&#8217;s laboratory to protest his Unitarian views (so maybe things have improved <a href=\"http:\/\/mattson.creighton.edu\/History_Gas_Chemistry\/Priestley.html\">since 1791<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/130878.html\">via<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/americancreation.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/john-adams-and-joseph-priestley.html\">more<\/a> from Jonathan Rowe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian blog Gods of the Copybook Headings &#8212; and is anyone here unfamiliar with the classic Kipling secular-rightish poem (bonus Bradlaugh content!) alluded to in that title? &#8212; interviews its founder\/chief blogger about his classical liberal views (via); Bon mot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,157,1132,158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}