{"id":106,"date":"2009-03-05T13:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/05\/mccain-tweets-about-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T13:02:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:02:28","slug":"mccain-tweets-about-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/05\/mccain-tweets-about-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain tweets about astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This news is a few days old, but in case you haven&#8217;t heard, John McCain has apparently been making fun of various earmarks in the current spending\u00a0 bill on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/senjohnmccain\">his Twitter feed<\/a>.\u00a0 One <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJohnMcCain\/status\/1259912841\">recent tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>$2 million &quot;for the promotion of astronomy&quot; in Hawaii &#8211; because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree that that earmarks are a lousy way to allocate funding.\u00a0 But it really bothers me that complaints about earmarks so often take the form of contemptuous mocking of science.\u00a0 For the record, astronomy jobs are jobs, and astronomy is a significant industry in Hawaii.\u00a0 Yes, the average American doesn&#8217;t work in the astronomy industry, but the average American doesn&#8217;t work in, say, road construction either.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/03\/04\/scientists-are-not-you-and-me\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/03\/04\/scientists-are-not-you-and-me\/\">This post<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/\">Cosmic Variance blog<\/a> (a very good science blog, by the way) says it all much better than I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news is a few days old, but in case you haven&#8217;t heard, John McCain has apparently been making fun of various earmarks in the current spending\u00a0 bill on his Twitter feed.\u00a0 One recent tweet: $2 million &quot;for the promotion of astronomy&quot; in Hawaii &#8211; because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2009\/03\/05\/mccain-tweets-about-astronomy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain tweets about astronomy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}