{"id":174,"date":"2008-11-28T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-12-05T17:18:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T01:18:15","slug":"ears-are-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ears-are-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ears are burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some reactions to the site in its first days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moxie.nu\/?p=1775\">Moxie<\/a> (&#8220;Perfectly timed&#8230; I\u2019ll be reading it, and you should too.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opiningonline.com\/2008\/11\/25\/an-addition-to-the-blogroll\/\">Opining Online<\/a> (&#8220;I hope that it does not devolve into merely discussion of evolution and whether God exists.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feralchild.net\/?p=812\">Social Services for Feral Children<\/a> (&#8220;attempting to build a voice for people on the right who wish to justify their political and cultural positions without reference to God or gods.  As an agnostic libertarian, I want to see more of this.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/helives.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/oh-brother-du-jour.html\">David Heddle<\/a> (&#8220;If the early posting is any indication, it looks no more intelligent and exhibits no better writing skill than its fundamentalist counterpart.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bjkeefe.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/secular-right.html\">B.J. O&#8217;Keefe <\/a>(&#8220;From my initial visit, I&#8217;d say this is a good one to watch&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/right-thinking.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/heathens_are_thankful_too\/\">Floyd at Threedonia<\/a> (&#8220;I guess they have decided that the oogedy boogedy folks like me (and the company I keep with Newton, Augustine, Luther, Aquinas, and most of the Founders) are what\u2019s wrong with conservatism.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Sullivan would like James Dobson to <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/11\/malkin-award--7.html\">tell it to us<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Eve Tushnet, probably the only blogger to use the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/conservatism%20considered%20as%20a%20helix%20of%20semiprecious%20stones\">conservatism considered as a helix of semiprecious stones<\/a>&#8221; as a post tag, looks forward to seeing how libertarian\/ traditionalist splits play out in our columns <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2008_11_01_archive.html#8680212769420329664#8680212769420329664\">and adds<\/a>: &#8220;When I was an undergrad, we sometimes referred to the &#8216;Romantic Atheist Faction&#8217; of conservatism. I hope we&#8217;ll see some of that on the blog.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>More<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southtexian.com\/2008\/11\/atheist-conservatives.html\">South Texian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/unreligiousright.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/more-right-wing-atheism.html\">Unreligious Right<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/25\/the-right-wing-fights-back-against-the-far-fringe\/\">David Kirkpatrick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ritestuff.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/new-blog.html\">Rite Wing TechnoPagan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/cgw\/\">Mormon Metaphysics<\/a> sideblog, <a href=\"http:\/\/crankycon.politicalbear.com\/2008\/11\/25\/from-one-anto-religion-bigot-to-another\/\">Cranky Conservative<\/a> (doesn&#8217;t think Thomas Jefferson makes a proper conservative quote-source), <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgreenspan.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1227864794.shtml\">Michael Greenspan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/6111\/the-secular-right\/\">Friendly Atheist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/anniceris.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/et-si-la-question-thologico-politique.html\">Anniceris<\/a> (in French), <a href=\"http:\/\/bestelectionever.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/25\/the-secular-right\/\">Best Election Ever<\/a>, Mori Dinauer @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=11&amp;year=2008&amp;base_name=lightning_round_bashing_wingnu\">American Prospect &#8220;Tapped&#8221;<\/a>, West Virginia Rebel @ <a href=\"http:\/\/right-thinking.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments\/heathens_are_thankful_too\/\">Right-Thinking from the Left Coast<\/a> (on Heather&#8217;s Thanksgiving thoughts), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/archives\/1510.html\">Jacob Grier<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s aside from the earlier-mentioned posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2008\/11\/the_secular_right.php\">Razib<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnxp.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/secular-right.php\">again<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2008\/11\/25\/new-center-right-website-secular-right\/\">TalkIslam.info<\/a>), by John at <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MzRlMjY0YjIwMzk4MDdhOGM4YjEwNjU5ODFhN2JhOTA=\">NRO &#8220;Corner&#8221;<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=Y2Y5ZDkxNzE2ZDVlYWRkOWY4YjhiOGM5YzVmNmFkOTE=\">again<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NTBkZDk1NjFlMzA1MDFlYmVkODg2ODA0N2E4Zjc4Yjk=\">again<\/a>), and by me at <a href=\"http:\/\/overlawyered.com\/2008\/11\/secularrightorg\/\">Overlawyered<\/a>. Also at NRO &#8220;Corner&#8221;, John Miller <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MGM5ODZiZmM3YjEyZDAxNWJiNDEwMTBhZTk2MTA0MzI=\">seems to consider it a point in favor<\/a> of relatively pious Founder Sam Adams that &#8220;he would never have joined a blog called Secular Right&#8221;; also, allusively, <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MDM2OGI4YzYyNmMzNjI1NDUxZDk2OTcxNjhhNDBjNTY=\">Kathryn Lopez<\/a>. And Ann Althouse has an <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/cooking-up-thanksgiving-eyeballs.html\">eyeball-centric follow-up<\/a> to her <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/correlating-politics-to-belief-in-god.html\">earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some reactions to the site in its first days: Moxie (&#8220;Perfectly timed&#8230; I\u2019ll be reading it, and you should too.&#8221;) Opining Online (&#8220;I hope that it does not devolve into merely discussion of evolution and whether God exists.&#8221;) Social Services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/ears-are-burning\/\">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":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}