{"id":330,"date":"2004-04-12T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2004-04-12T22:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=330"},"modified":"2006-10-08T06:26:48","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T06:26:48","slug":"328-of-ann-arbor-and-david-brooks-liberal-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"[328] Of Ann Arbor and David Brooks&#8217; Liberal Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Ann Arbor gets two spots in the mainstream media. One concerns the latest longevity progress done by the University of Michigan and the other is about a satire &#8211; the satire proposes a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/06\/opinion\/06BROO.html\">direct flights between Madison, Berkeley, Ann Arbor and the New School for Social Research<\/a>&#8220;. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annarborisoverrated.com\/archives\/000376.html\">Ann Arbor Is Overrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, somebody mentioned Michigan and in particular, Ann Arbor&#8217;s <em>liberalness<\/em> (if that is really a word) in a nationally circulated newspapers.<br \/>\nI have no doubt, Bush will not get Michigan for November, no matter how hard he tries.<\/p>\n<p>Crossing the Pacific, in <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2004\/4\/13\/nation\/7751842&#038;sec=nation\">The Star&#8217;s words<\/a>, &#8220;Malaysia is set to become the sole global manufacturer of two models of Steyr assault rifles with a joint-venture agreement signed between the National Aerospace and Defence Industries (Nadi) and Austrian weapons-production giant Steyr Mannlicher Holding GmbH&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I am <em>looking forward<\/em> to see the Free Aceh Movement to use the Steyr assault rifle smuggled in from Malaysia against the Indonesian national army in the future. Oh, the joy of a second Konfrontasi!<\/p>\n<p>Not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Ann Arbor gets two spots in the mainstream media. One concerns the latest longevity progress done by the University of Michigan and the other is about a satire &#8211; the satire proposes a &#8220;direct flights between Madison, Berkeley, Ann Arbor and the New School for Social Research&#8220;. Via Ann Arbor Is Overrated. Finally, somebody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-politics-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}