{"id":1661,"date":"2010-05-11T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T18:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2020-04-09T07:14:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:14:57","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2010\/05\/11\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Listened to the news in the car. Here are the high points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Oil gusher is still gushing. I found myself wondering if anyone would care about a highly dangerous and dirty \u201cextraction\u201d industry if it only killed people and spoiled habitats in West Virginia. I also wondered if miners would get more respect if they dressed in utility overalls so they kinda look like firefighters \u2013 like the oil rig guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The first military tribunal since Obama took office is starting down in Guantanamo, only six months after Obama took office, promising to close Guantanamo and stop having military tribunals. It involves a guy who was fifteen years old when he (allegedly) threw a grenade that killed a US serviceman, during a US attack on the facility where he was (allegedly) making bombs. EIGHT YEARS LATER, he\u2019s seeing the first glimmers of a trial \u2013 and they\u2019re asking questions like \u201cthe confessions that we got from him (when he was 15) by telling him he would be taken to the US and raped over and over, can we use that now that he\u2019s 23?\u201d I found myself wondering \u201cEIGHT GODDAMN YEARS?\u201d Wow. Neither swift, nor fair, nor by anything even approaching \u201cpeers.\u201d I guess he probably deserves it though \u2013 not having been smart enough to be born in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Obama nominated a supreme court justice. I have no idea what to think about that \u2013 but I hope she can counteract some of the crazy that\u2019s been coming down from the bench lately. If life were more like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/supreme-court-upholds-freedom-of-speech-in-obsceni,17372\/\">The Onion<\/a>, that would be fine with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Europe apparently put forth a bailout that is larger than the one the US used two years ago \u2013 except that there\u2019s no money to back it up \u2013 or something. We\u2019re apparently supposed to judge whether or not that\u2019s a good idea by watching the S&P 500 \u2013 which almost crashed due to somethingorother related to high speed automated trading earlier this week. I found myself wondering whether incompetence suffices to explain all of this \u2013 or if we need to invoke malice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* The pope is edging towards saying unconditionally that child abuse is wrong. I found myself wondering how this is news or progress \u2013 and whether (if we\u2019re airing dirty laundry) he might at some point admit that the evidence for the divinity of Jesus is slim at best and that christians would find addressing salvation in this current life a better use of their time than worrying incessantly about a hypothetical next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there was a nice human interest story about a family who has played drums at some kings tomb for the last 600 years. I liked that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listened to the news in the car. Here are the high points: * Oil gusher is still gushing. I found myself wondering if anyone would care about a highly dangerous and dirty \u201cextraction\u201d industry if it only killed people and spoiled habitats in West Virginia.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bp-oil-spill","category-world-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1662,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}