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I wasn’t going to say anything actually bad about JustHost. But seriously …

Published August 27, 2016 11:49 am by Claire

I wanted to avoid a disgruntled rant about JustHost, the company that (still for the time being) hosts the blog and is about to be deprived of its chance to host the new member site. It was enough to say JustHost was a bit slow, error-prone, and lacking in customer service. Enough to say that, since being acquired by some host-devouring conglomerate, it was getting a shocking number of bad reviews. I wanted to be discreet. Polite. Didn’t want to come across as some crazed former customer, brimming with self-righteousness and out for revenge. You know the type. The weirdo…

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Thursday links

Published August 25, 2016 1:50 am by Claire

The older we are, the happier we are, says Yet Another Study. While this doesn’t account for those notable old grouches we’ve all met, I believe it.

Maybe the grouchy ones can eventually go off and live in a neighborhood on Proxima b. Or we can go and leave them behind.

And in today’s moment of rib-tickling, rolling-on-the-floor humor: Ezekiel Emanuel, architect of Obamacare, says

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Of course, sometimes unity is a good thing

Published August 24, 2016 3:07 pm by Claire

… as demonstrated here, in the latest Black Lives Matter protest … Wyoming style. 🙂 (Click to embiggenate. And you can blame MamaLiberty if this triggers your social-justice peckniffery. I got it from her.)

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Midweek links

Published August 23, 2016 5:38 pm by Claire

Is there a “second Snowden” at the NSA? James Bamford, who knows as much as anybody else outside the fedgov’s blackbox of spies, believes there is.

In any case, we’re all in the NSA’s big, happy social network, whether we want to be or not. Not to mention the increasing number of people being forced onto Microsoft’s anti-social social network.

In Louisiana, nimble, willing private help for flood victims went far beyond the Cajun Navy. (Interesting use of technology, too. Could make me rethink the evils of F*c*b**k. And this is a case where phone-based geolocation may have saved lives.)

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The usual cheery links for beginning your week

Published August 21, 2016 5:03 pm by Claire

Just in case anybody imagined problems in the housing market got solved after 2008.

And in the Department of Uncommon Common Sense Department, Jim Bovard says, farmers ought to farm (but of course politicians have a lot to say about that).

In Chicago, a tool cops said was supposed to help people is just ending up hassling the hapless. (H/T LA)

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Friday links

Published August 19, 2016 12:51 am by Claire

Authoritarianism. It doesn’t merely appear to be growing. It scarily is. (H/T RG)

Absurdities of background check laws.

Speaking of cruelly absurd laws, here’s a test that’s been around a while (courtesy of Joe Huffman), but it a good one to keep in mind. Would proposed new law X, Y, or Z pass the Jews in the attic test?

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Midweek links

Published August 17, 2016 7:27 am by Claire

Okay, in the great debate over victim disarmament, this is trivial. But still: “Get out of gun control, Apple.”

Uh oh. All those Loompanicsy books and articles about hiding stuff in your walls just got even more obsolete than they already were. Nifty app for home remodelers, though. (H/T MJR)

What a beautiful and unusual piece. Wendy McElroy talks about her experiences as a homeless teenager in “Try a Little Tenderness.”

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Tuesday links

Published August 16, 2016 2:16 am by Claire

David Codrea writes the last word on Mike Vanderboegh.

Clearly, though, we haven’t heard the last word from Mike’s son Matt, who has just proposed a monkeywrenching use for all that hacked DNC contact info. May not be the best use of time, but it’s still interesting thinking.

Man, now there’s a headline for you: “The SEC has questions about a company with no revenue, $1,000 in the bank, and a $35 billion market cap.”

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Weekend links

Published August 14, 2016 7:00 am by Claire

So, what do you think? Will the new corruption investigation of Hillary Clinton produce any more political courage or any better results than earlier attempts?

Although nobody is surprised that the DEA’s dumb decision on cannabis ignores medical reality, the linked Forbes article does a great job of showing just how far in political outerspace the DEA is.

Way, way, way too early to consider this news important to humans. Much more testing to be done. But an already common anti-inflammatory drug used to treat menstrual pain actually reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice. Reportedly disappeared them.

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