{"id":1412,"date":"2009-01-29T19:51:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T03:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2009-01-31T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T17:56:56","slug":"miscellany-january-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany, January 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Ross Douthat <a href=\"http:\/\/rossdouthat.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/the_teapot_analogy.php\">doesn&#8217;t like<\/a> Bertrand Russell&#8217;s &#8220;orbiting teacup&#8221; analogy and its modern Flying Spaghetti Monster descendant; Andrew Sullivan and readers then proceed to go &#8217;round and &#8217;round with the question [<a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/quote-for-th-23.html\">first<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/in-defense-of-1.html\">second<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/spaghetti-mon-1.html\">third<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/01\/spaghetti-monst.html\">fourth<\/a> posts]<\/li>\n<li>In the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s latest public relations setback, Pope Benedict XVI has revoked the excommunication of four schismatic Lefebvrist bishops including Holocaust denier Richard Williamson. Some reactions: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2009\/01\/anti-semitism-and-sspx.html\">Rod Dreher<\/a> (&#8220;You won&#8217;t believe what a malicious fruitcake Williamson is&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/fullcomment\/archive\/2009\/01\/29\/yoni-goldstein-the-church-needs-to-get-rid-of-fanatics-not-encourage-them.aspx\">Yoni Goldstein\/National Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/religionblog.dallasnews.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/israeli-rabbis-sever-ties-with.html\">Dallas News religion blog<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicegoddess.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/27\/maybe_they_actu.html\">Amy Alkon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/28\/israeli-rabbinate-severs-ties-with-vatican-over-holocaust-denying-bishop\/\">Allahpundit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2009\/01\/holocaust-denying_conservative_bishop.php\">Orac<\/a>, new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/linker\/archive\/2009\/01\/28\/tk.aspx\">Damon Linker blog<\/a> at TNR. <\/li>\n<li>Totally unrelated to above item, even if it sounds as if there might be some connection: &#8220;Our Lady of Mercy entered a $4.5 million settlement with prosecutors&#8230;.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01052009\/news\/regionalnews\/hosp_drug_abue_147254.htm\">NY Post<\/a>] It was a hospital billing scam.<\/li>\n<li>According to an approving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/jan\/13\/polly-toynbee-harriet-harman-social-mobility\">Polly Toynbee in The Guardian<\/a>, Britain&#8217;s Labour government &#8220;will create a new over-arching law creating a duty on the whole public sector to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor&#8221;. It&#8217;s enough to make Paul Dennett of <a href=\"http:\/\/aprogressiveviewpoint.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/atlas-shrugged-hurriedly-packed.html\">A Progressive Viewpoint<\/a> (&#8220;A journal of Classical Liberal and Neo-Conservative commentary&#8221;) wonder whether the U.K. is heading down the road of the society in Atlas Shrugged.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross Douthat doesn&#8217;t like Bertrand Russell&#8217;s &#8220;orbiting teacup&#8221; analogy and its modern Flying Spaghetti Monster descendant; Andrew Sullivan and readers then proceed to go &#8217;round and &#8217;round with the question [first, second, third, fourth posts] In the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-29\/\">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":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}