{"id":1002,"date":"2010-04-04T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2010-04-04T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T02:42:00","slug":"monday-miscellany-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/monday-miscellany-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A 10-year-old artist&#8217;s work is <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703409804575143973064047154.html?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks\" target=\"_blank\">booted from an exhibition<\/a>. Seems to me the reasons given for removing it are the very reasons it should have stayed.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raggedy_Ann\" target=\"_blank\">A history of the Raggedy Ann doll<\/a>. Why care? Well, turns out the story involves some very contemporary-sounding issues about vaccines. Caveat: Three different sources give different accounts (others <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Gruelle\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonfranklin.com\/Stories\/Angel_of_the_White_Plague.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). The latter is the most dramatic and so much at cross-purposes to the other two that it makes one&#8217;s head spin. Or maybe it&#8217;s just government spin.\n<li>Hm. I&#8217;ve heard sociopaths sound <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/05\/world\/europe\/05pope.html\" target=\"_blank\">sound just like this<\/a> after being caught: trivializing the pain of victims while melo-dramatizing themselves as the true sufferers.\n<li>Anarchism in the Asian highlands? Did hill tribes make a deliberate choice to leave behind many advances of civilization, just for the sake of being left alone by the state? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0300152280?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0300152280\" target=\"_blank\">So says a new book<\/a> by Yale scholar James C. Scott. Other scholars differ on the details. But &#8230; interesting premise. And one that might just resonate with us back-to-the-landers. Equally interesting: This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2009\/12\/06\/the_mystery_of_zomia\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\">very thoughtful <i>Boston Globe<\/i> article<\/a> treats anarchism respectfully as just one of many life choices, one of many possible political systems.\n<li>Angela Merkel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/bronwen_maddox\/article7086077.ece\" target=\"_blank\">bails out Greece<\/a>. What&#8217;ll that do to the Euro?\n<li>Man from the future <a href=\"http:\/\/crave.cnet.co.uk\/gadgets\/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">turns up at the Large Hadron Collider<\/a>. Says there&#8217;s a desperate problem with chocolate in our future.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-year-old artist&#8217;s work is booted from an exhibition. Seems to me the reasons given for removing it are the very reasons it should have stayed. A history of the Raggedy Ann doll. Why care? Well, turns out the story involves some very contemporary-sounding issues about vaccines. Caveat: Three different sources give different accounts (others here and here). The latter is the most dramatic and so much at cross-purposes to the other two that it makes one&#8217;s head spin. Or maybe it&#8217;s just government spin. Hm. I&#8217;ve heard sociopaths sound sound just like this after being caught: trivializing the pain&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/04\/monday-miscellany-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,13,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}