{"id":3658,"date":"2010-01-18T14:29:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:29:20","slug":"miscellany-january-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany, January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More bits and oddments expanded and adapted from Secular Right&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/secularright\">Twitter account<\/a>: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NYC&#8217;s Met Museum to rename Islamic Galleries, may yank art depicting Mohammed [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/jihad_jitters_at_met_76yj3VNUy4hcRAnhOcPCHP\">NY Post<\/a>] &#8220;Motoons republished throughout Europe&#8221; &#8212; why not here? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk\/2010\/01\/08\/motoons-republished-throughout-europe\/\">MWW<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/europe\/12\/22\/uk.priest.sermon.shoplift\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advicegoddess.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/23\/give_me_some_go.html\">Amy Alkon<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Anti blasphemy law campaign begins in Ireland&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediawatchwatch.org.uk\/2010\/01\/02\/anti-blasphemy-law-campaign-begins-in-ireland\/\">MWW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/ireland\/article6974138.ece\">Times Online<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/01\/02\/why-is-it-more-wrong-to-insult-a-persons-religion-than-their-secular-moral-or-political-views\/\">Ilya Somin\/Volokh<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>In a nutshell, the three varieties of Straussians [<a href=\"http:\/\/rightcoast.typepad.com\/rightcoast\/2009\/12\/straussiansmike-rappaport-.html\">Mike Rappaport, Right Coast<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Atheism leads to brutality&#8221;: GOP Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels comes off badly in interview [<a href=\"http:\/\/randazza.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/29\/indiana-governor-lives-up-to-indianas-negative-stereotypes-nobody-surprised\/\">Legal Satyricon<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>How religious is your state? [<a href=\"http:\/\/pewforum.org\/docs\/?DocID=504\">Pew Forum<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Hitchens on Gore Vidal [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2010\/02\/hitchens-201002\">Vanity Fair<\/a>] And on our leaders&#8217; absurd reaction to the attempted plane bombing [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2239935\/\">Slate<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Spark of the divine&#8221; within each of us: Obama Nobel speech last month slighted unbelievers [<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/spark-of-divine-that-still-steers.html\">Ann Althouse<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Spokesman for Prof. Robert George&#8217;s American Principles Project moves in circles quite different from those of this website [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/blog\/entry.cfm?id=92896495-3048-741E-4508290277972197\">Michael Sean Winters, America<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Funny: Satan sends a letter responding to Pat Robertson on Haiti [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/letters\/81595442.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUqEiaDUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">Star-Tribune<\/a>, scroll to second item]  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bits and oddments expanded and adapted from Secular Right&#8217;s Twitter account: NYC&#8217;s Met Museum to rename Islamic Galleries, may yank art depicting Mohammed [NY Post] &#8220;Motoons republished throughout Europe&#8221; &#8212; why not here? [MWW] &#8220;My advice, as a Christian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/miscellany-january-18\/\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658"}],"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=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3661,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}