{"id":1344,"date":"2007-02-16T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-16-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T06:41:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T11:41:23","slug":"unrequired-reading-feb-16-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-16-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 16, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always with the stuff I didn&#8217;t have time to write about this week!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/mines-of-medicine.html\">Mine for the cure<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>A tale of two tax policies: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/02\/12\/tax-hike-will-accelerate-connecticuts-decline\/\">Connecticut is going up<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2007\/02\/13\/democratic-governor-in-arkansas-pushes-big-tax-cut\/\">Arkansas is going down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>More state politics: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/eon2007-02-14sm.html\">Spitzer gets his ass handed to him<\/a>! Maybe he should dig up some Constitution-circumventing power that he can wield like a club! Again!<br \/>\n* * *<\/p>\n<p>Jane Galt wants to know <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/archives\/009632.html\">why artistic achievement isn&#8217;t sustainable<\/a> (that is, why can&#8217;t artists keep cranking out successful projects).<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>As Jane knows, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.incharacter.org\/article.php?article=93\">ladies love Ayn Rand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The Manolo <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/missmeghan.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/shoe-are-you-manolo.html\">gets interviewed<\/a> (those Taryn Rose shoes he praises list for $449).<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Mad Mix writes about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chimeraobscura.com\/mm\/binaural\/\">the impact of digital recording<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always with the stuff I didn&#8217;t have time to write about this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceuticals","category-politics-explicit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-lG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4361,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-aug-21-2009","url_meta":{"origin":1344,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Aug. 21, 2009","author":"Gil","date":"August 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"What links lurk? 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