{"id":5607,"date":"2009-05-31T23:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T07:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2009-05-31T23:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T07:47:46","slug":"catching-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/catching-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;ve been too busy to blog lately, what with the conferences, a white paper I&#8217;m writing about protocols and regulation, a recalcitrant editor (at a local paper,) and a new gig blogging for <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php\">IEEE Spectrum&#8217;s<\/a> Tech Talk. My observations on networking and policy will be appearing there for the while.<\/p>\n<p>The focus over here is going to be pure politics and pure technology, with a little bit of baseball. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in a silly season for politics at the moment:<\/p>\n<p>* Pro-lifers committing murder<br \/>\n* Intellectuals practicing tribal politics<br \/>\n* Critics of tribal politics complaining about pronunciation<br \/>\n* Morons playing with statistics<\/p>\n<p>The funniest among these (please note, there&#8217;s nothing funny about murder) is the conspiracy theory about Hillary fans among the car dealers getting off the shutdown hook. It comes as no big surprise that the source of the rumor is Doug Ross, the big net neutrality booster who used to comment here as <a href=\"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/full-text-of-cope-act\/#comment-285738\">&#8220;Director Blue&#8221;<\/a> until I shut him off. The common thread is conspiracy theory, the essential philosophical basis of American politics.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been too busy to blog lately, what with the conferences, a white paper I&#8217;m writing about protocols and regulation, a recalcitrant editor (at a local paper,) and a new gig blogging for IEEE Spectrum&#8217;s Tech Talk. My observations on networking and policy will be appearing there for the while. The focus over here is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/catching-up-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1sr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}