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Weekend links

Published May 14, 2017 7:44 am by Claire

Welcome to the New Soviet Union, comrades — where you can now be paid to inform on the “incorrect” opinions of your peers. (H/T MJR)

Scary. The Washington state gov — with the cooperation of the quisling NRA — is attempting to put teeth into firearm background checks. Considering that up to 95% of denials may be in error, this could seriously screw with thousands of innocent people.

I know this area of southern Oregon and I get it. The rage, the resistance. The hidden America Our Masters fear but never understand. But never sacrifice your libraries. Bring them back privately if you can. (H/T jc2k in comments)*

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Bob Owens, RIP

Published May 9, 2017 6:28 am by Claire

Bob Owens of BearingArms.com is dead. Apparently by suicide at age 46. No doubt the antis will gleeful make hay out of his death by gunshot. Owens wasn’t a favorite of us gun-rights purists. He was notorious for a particular “blame the gun” editorial in the L.A. Times that could have been written by a hardcore Bloombergian. Or a Quisling. I suppose now it would be an ungracious, arrogant understatement to assume the guy had issues. Good guy? Bad buy? Good guy, but? I don’t know. Still. Crappy fate. He had young family, too. More from his co-editor.

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Weekend links

Published May 6, 2017 8:39 am by Claire

Kevin D. Williamson on “The Inquisitor’s Heirs” and the left’s hatred of science while claiming a love of Science.

While we’re on the subject, here’s Jim Goad on Bill Nye’s fake science.

Revival of American masculinity starts at home. (Directed at men, this is more about independence and personal agency than it is about masculinity vs femininity.)

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It begins

Published April 29, 2017 9:58 am by Claire

Monday. That’s the day the long-awaited (and long-dreaded) foundation project commences. The Wandering Monk and I had hoped to start in April, but it’s been far too cold and wet. It’s still cold, but we’re headed into a drier period, so here we go. This weekend I’m schlepping the last movable stuff out of the back end of the house. We’re going to be tearing up sections of the floor, then replacing beams and jacking the house up from within, so it all has to go. (There is simply not enough ground clearance for anyone but a masochist or a…

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Friday links

Published April 28, 2017 2:55 am by Claire

The anti-fascist fascists may have reached a new low. They used threats of violence successfully to cancel a long-time traditional parade in Portland, Oregon. Why? Because Republicans were participating. (H/T M)

And once again — as is the usual these days — police are doing nothing to stop mob rule. Just happened again in Berkeley. Mind you, I think it’s naive to expect cops to protect free speech; they’ve rarely ever been in favor of it. But as a general rule, cops have at least enjoyed whacking left-wing demonstrators over the head. Now they’re not even doing that.

Sigh. Only NASA could be running out of space suits while hardly putting anybody into space. What a sad commentary.

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Tuesday links

Published April 25, 2017 11:49 am by Claire

All that’s needed: “a critical mass of John Galts and Walter Whites.”

Just when you think you’ve heard all there is to hear (or all you can bear to hear) about the Holocaust, you learn things like this. (H/T CB)

The latest case of the ATF playing its game of when-is-something-an-NFA-device and when-is-it-not. Ah, the Land of the Free! And the home of the arbitrary diktat.

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Tuesday links

Published April 18, 2017 2:47 am by Claire

To be a genius … think like a 94-year-old.

Hm. It seems that being a Nigerian scammer might not be such a bad occupation. Until your neighbors become snitches. (H/T MJR)

Oh yeah, those smart cities are going to be soooooo beneficial. I’m sure we’ll all be thanking our robot overlords and their bureaucrat assistants. (Tip o’ hat to SC)

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Tuesday links

Published April 4, 2017 8:58 am by Claire

Will Obamacare really require Dominos Pizza franchises to post calorie counts for 34 million potential variations of pizza? Kevin D. Williamson examines the profit-killing absurdities.

Yet another court justifies yet another literally unwarranted shooting-by-cop. Hershel Smith turns up the outrage.

More on Tim Berners-Lee’s plan to re-create his monster creation, the worldwide web. He wants to return its power to the people.

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Midweek links

Published March 28, 2017 1:50 pm by Claire

A civil rights lawsuit is in the works against warrantless searches of laptops and cellphones. According to the article there were as many such searches last month as there were in all of 2015.

You might think it would be a waste of money for the National Park Service to spend $150,000 on Bigfoot research. But rest assured the money isn’t entirely wasted. It’s also covering research on sea monsters and mysterious lights.

This demonstrates exactly how dumb “smart” appliances are. A brand-new dishwasher with a security bug that was the hottest new thing … 20 years ago.

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Weekend links

Published March 26, 2017 2:42 pm by Claire

Thanks to a link Shel dropped into comments on my “Theda’s Kin” post, I fell down a rabbit hole of the brain’s striking ability to make accurage snap judgments. Here’s a short version of what Shel was getting at: how we can tell criminals from non-criminals with only their faces to go by. And similar accuracy turns out to apply with our “gaydar,” “mordar,” etc. (What’s mordar, you may ask? Why, it’s our unusual ability to quickly recognize Mormoms, even when they’re not walking up to our doors wearing suits and ID badges.)

But then, sometimes, as in this short story, identity is a trickier matter. (H/T. MJR)

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