{"id":10244,"date":"2012-06-01T02:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2012-06-01T02:45:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:45:44","slug":"friday-links-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/friday-links-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off for a weekend of wild abandon, debauchery, and carousing. Well, a weekend of going to garage sales, hitting Costco, and spending time at The Mother Earth News Fair, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthineer.com\" target=\"_blank\">Earthineer<\/a> and <i>Backwoods Home<\/i>. Which is as close to debauchery as I get, these days.<\/p>\n<p>So I leave you with these links and will see you in a few.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You may already be on the &#8220;do not fly&#8221; list &#8212; and who knows how many other lists in how many other dark governmental places. But now &#8212; something new! You can petition the White House to <a href=\"https:\/\/wwws.whitehouse.gov\/petitions#!\/petition\/create-do-not-kill-list\/HwqFwRtG\" target=\"_blank\">add you to a brand-new Do Not Kill list<\/a>! (You&#8217;ll need JavaScript enabled to see the petition; otherwise you&#8217;ll just see a White House petition site.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctnow.com\/news\/hc-springfield-poodle-vs-pit-bull-0530-20120529,0,401164.story?hpt=ju_bn4\" target=\"_blank\">Stereo-atypical<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slidetoplay.com\/story\/mitt-romney-presidential-app-misspells-america\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Better Amercia.&#8221;<\/a> Huh?\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_19837_the-7-most-terrifying-archaeological-discoveries.html\" target=\"_blank\">seven most terrifying archaeological discoveries<\/a>. (NB: Disturbing photos, but nothing Indiana Jones couldn&#8217;t handle.)\n<li>Community radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Making-a-difference\/Change-Agent\/2012\/0523\/Community-radio-cuts-disaster-risk-in-flood-prone-Bangladesh\" target=\"_blank\">cuts disaster risk<\/a>. In Bangladesh. (H\/T PT)\n<li>Told they were &#8220;too young&#8221; to volunteer at an animal shelter, two sisters <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wpvi\/story?section=news%2Flocal&#038;id=8670968\" target=\"_blank\">started their own<\/a>. Big time. (Via MLS)\n<li>Everything you ever never wanted to know about the TSA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecriminaljusticedegree.com\/tsa-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\">at a glance<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR)\n<li>Here&#8217;s one of those things that makes you reconsider something you&#8217;ve &#8220;always known.&#8221; Do Americans really have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resilientcommunities.com\/real-choice-and-the-soviet-supermarket-endgame\/\" target=\"_blank\">food abundance<\/a> in our supermarkets?\n<li>This is a couple of days old now, which puts it several centuries back in Twitterverse terms. But it&#8217;s still funny. When The Donald trumpeted, &#8220;What could be better&#8221; than having lunch with him and Mitt Romney, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/11-things-that-are-better-than-having-dinner-with-donald-trump-and-mitt-romney-2012-5\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter users answered<\/a>.\n<li>Which is more stupid? NYC mayor Bloomberg wanting to ban large softdrinks? Or the bureaucrats of Idaho <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/05\/30\/154004728\/banned-in-idaho-five-wives-vodka-says-it-meant-no-offense\" target=\"_blank\">getting silly over this<\/a>? Hm. Hm. Decisions, decisions &#8230;\n<li>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/25\/rodney-mcgee-deputy-azor-drug-dog-testify-florida_n_1546092.html\" target=\"_blank\">this, on the other hand,<\/a> makes perfect sense. No doubt that&#8217;s why the judge refused to do it.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off for a weekend of wild abandon, debauchery, and carousing. Well, a weekend of going to garage sales, hitting Costco, and spending time at The Mother Earth News Fair, courtesy of Earthineer and Backwoods Home. Which is as close to debauchery as I get, these days. So I leave you with these links and will see you in a few. You may already be on the &#8220;do not fly&#8221; list &#8212; and who knows how many other lists in how many other dark governmental places. But now &#8212; something new! You can petition the White House to add you&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/01\/friday-links-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday links<\/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":[8,13,23,25,27,28,30,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","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=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}