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I shall return

Published December 19, 2016 10:10 am by Claire

I had a social evening last night (though the friend who invited me would laugh at my idea of “social”), followed by a slice of too-sweet cake. This morning I need to recuperate. And give impatient Ava a later-than-usual walk. So while you wait for me to return and be stunningly brilliant* have a cute & funny dog & cat video. —– * Your wait will be much shorter if you merely expect me to return, which I shall try to do later today.

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Midweek links

Published December 14, 2016 2:29 pm by Claire
  • Turns out that, as pot has been legalized, teens have had a harder time getting the stuff. Sure, that’s against all predictions — except predictions by people who grok how markets work.
  • Teen drug and alcohol use has fallen in general. Of course, that’s according to the Washington Post, so it may be fake news.
  • It takes seven shots to kill a 73-year-old man suffering dementia. But then, he was armed with a deadly crucifix, so I guess they had to do it.
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    • Tuesday links

    Published December 13, 2016 12:29 pm by Claire
  • I don’t really care who hacked the DNC and John Podesta. Whoever handed that info over to Wikileaks did the world a big favor. But I agree (once again) with Glenn Greenwald: these sketchy bits of third-hand gossip being reported as “news from the CIA” claiming the Russians did it do not qualify as news by any standard.
  • Justin Raimondo calls this businesss an attempted CIA coup. One of many, but don’t they usually stick to third-world countries?
  • No more John Stossel show. 🙁
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    • Weekend links

    Published December 3, 2016 12:27 pm by Claire
  • Uber is now tracking customers after they’ve closed its app. But not to worry; it’s for your own good. (Close app, turn off phone, remove battery — if your battery is still a removable one.) (H/T MJR)
  • Can’t afford to rent your very own malicious botnet (per last links)? Well, there’s always this $50 USB killer. It’s not perfect; but for mere couch-cushion change, what do you expect?
  • It’s truly a human tragedy that this type of humane research on psychoactive drugs has been curtailed for so many decades. Thanks, War on Drugs.
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    • Wednesday links

    Published November 30, 2016 6:28 am by Claire
  • Everything Trump says is nutty, except it wasn’t nutty when Hillary said it. (Except in this case it’s nutty — and dangerous — when either of them say it and my take on the issue is “ditto,ASM & Borepatch.”)
  • This black guy explains why whites would inevitably win a race war. Even if you can’t understand a word he utters (and I can’t), the visual message is plenty clear. 🙂
  • On that OSU “active shooter,” here’s Joel’s take (preach it, Bruthah). And here — please keep your barf bag handy — is what purports to be the opinion of the university’s diversity officer.
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    • Weekend links

    Published November 26, 2016 8:46 am by Claire
  • Lots of media outlets are reporting on Jill Stein’s efforts to get recounts in the three “Hillary firewall” states that Trump won. How come so few are reporting on Stein’s comically scammish and ever-escalating claims about the amount of money she needs?
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on censorship in social media (.pdf). (Very readable report, too.)
  • Where is Julian Assange and what has happened to Wikileaks?
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    • Happy Thanksgiving

    Published November 24, 2016 10:59 am by Claire

    Today I am grateful …

    For the Commentariat, all my blog readers, and everyone determined to live free;

    For Her Royal Highness Princess Ava Prettypaws, ACD, BC, even though she is an awful attention seeker who intrudes on my hermitude;

    For the nearly 15 years each that I had with heartdogs Robbie and Jasmine;

    That Hillary Clinton isn’t about to become president of the U.S.;

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