Yes, you can link directly to a set of results. And if you go the route of sites like Kickstarter that automagically update the URL as you scroll, you still avoid having to load unintended content when you reload it for that set of results.
Obama signs the USA PATRIOT Act and the 2012 NDAA, only to propose a Privacy Bill of Rights? The goodwill gesture of a hypocritical administration is vain and illusory. To trust it is to be fooled.
As Bush tried to say, and in retrospect became the first instance: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." Let us not shame ourselves in this instance.