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Monday-Tuesday links

Published October 1, 2018 5:54 pm by Claire

A teenage girl uses a bow and arrow to save her little brother from a cougar. Naturally, the Internet hates her. (H/T LA)

Bryan Caplan’s convincing case against education. (Amazon link to Caplan’s book here)

Given the biased source (the NYT), I don’t know if this is accurate. If true, it’s barbaric. Undocumented immigrant kids are being rounded up in the middle of the night and transferred from private homes, shelters, and relatively normal lives to an isolated tent city in Texas.

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Weekend links

Published September 29, 2018 6:45 pm by Claire

Tim Berners-Lee unveils his radical new plan to decentralize the ‘Net and take it back from the corporate privacy snatchers.

How bail reform trapped a cannabis activist in jail.

Your social media notifications are lying to you about what’s important.

A long-term follow-up study confirms the growing body of evidence. Most people with appendicitis don’t need surgery, just antibiotics.

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Friday links

Published September 28, 2018 5:49 am by Claire

Well, that’s a different view on Ford-Kavanaugh: “I believe her — and him.” (H/T DT)

Do laws requiring mandatory reporting of supposed crimes violate the First Amendment?

Terry Bressi is at it again — challenging constitution-free border checkpoints after being stopped over 400 times.

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Thursday links

Published September 27, 2018 2:15 am by Claire

Cody Wilson is out at Defense Distributed. A woman, long time vice president Paloma Heindorff, is in.

Ten “poor man’s habits” that could save anybody a buck.

Stephen Moore observes that liberals are no fun anymore.

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Tuesday links

Published September 25, 2018 11:37 am by Claire

J.D. Tuccille on Google and privatized authoritarianism.

If there’s a hell, a very low ring should be reserved for petty bureaucrats who use the law against good, kind, brave people. The charges against Tammie Hedges for administering medicine to rescued pets and “soliciting a controlled substance” are barbaric. Good thing her legal fundraiser is surpassing all expectations.

The U.S. is about to get its first “robot brothel.” Don’t expect this to be The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. (H/T DB)

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Monday links

Published September 24, 2018 1:16 am by Claire

Solar panels replaced paving on several roadways. For the environment and the climate and all, you know. Results were predictably underwhelming. Quite expensive, too.

Commander Zero, who knows whereof he speaks when it comes to preparedness, says Joel’s current experiment in living off an Augason Farms emergency food kit won’t end happily. I’m pretty sure Joel would have agreed from day one.

Speaking of which, Wired says that the science behind disaster preparedness kits is a disaster. They have suggestions some of us might not agree with, but the article’s interesting.

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Long weekend read, too: Guilty boys, monstrous girls

Published September 22, 2018 10:50 am by Claire

Sara Hoyt relates the horrors her sons experienced with grade-school #MeToo and ponders the impossibility of healthy relationships and healthy children ever arising out of such mad mentality. (Via Wendy McElroy)

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Friday links

Published September 21, 2018 11:06 am by Claire

Happy Paratus! Commander Zero, who invented this holiday for preparedness, has celebration suggestions.

That mysterious observatory closure? They claim it’s because a janitor had kiddie porn on a computer. Hm.

Sheesh. No wonder Kavanaugh’s accuser can’t remember any details. Given the party-and-pickup culture of the pricey school she went to, it’s a wonder she can remember anything from her teens.

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Midweek links

Published September 19, 2018 5:06 pm by Claire

The prosecution of Cody Wilson for having sex with an underage prostitute absolutely reeks of being a setup by enforcers pissed off that they couldn’t get him any other way. (H/T MP)

In July, it became the first cannabis company to go public on the Nasdaq. Tilray is making a lot of people rich. But it’s partying like it’s 1999, says The Motley Fool.

The fedgov gives itself permission to spy on journalists — another delightful use of the FISA system.

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