{"id":10319,"date":"2012-06-08T02:51:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2012-06-08T02:51:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T09:51:54","slug":"friday-links-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-links-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A certain &#8220;victim of the American drug war&#8221; has wisely <a href=\"http:\/\/drugwarvictim.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/last-statement.html\" target=\"_blank\">said goodbye in her own inimitable style<\/a> to posting about her experiences as a snitch. Apparently, she&#8217;s been in this mood for <a href=\"http:\/\/stacylitz.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">a long, long time<\/a> &#8212; though I suppose it&#8217;s &#8220;statist&#8221; of me to say so.\n<li>Speaking of statist, a gifted Virginia schoolboy has been suspended for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/su\/1stezn\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/06\/07\/virginia-13-year-old-suspended-after-he-touched-the-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\">touching the American flag<\/a>.\n<li>We may live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=14411\" target=\"_blank\">in a police state<\/a>. But at least we can still drink our troubles away. Idaho is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2012\/06\/07\/154518322\/drink-up-five-wives-vodka-will-be-sold-in-idaho\" target=\"_blank\">permit Five Wives vodka<\/a> to be sold after all. But only after a famous lawyer threatened to sue the state.\n<li>How to get health care <a href=\"http:\/\/thebillfold.com\/2012\/06\/how-to-get-health-care-while-uninsured\/\" target=\"_blank\">while uninsured<\/a>.\n<li>GOA sues to force the ATF to release <a href=\"http:\/\/gunowners.org\/a06062012.htm\" target=\"_blank\">documents related to Fast &#038; Furious<\/a>. (Via David Codrea&#8217;s Twitter feed)\n<li>Thunderbird now offers <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/2012\/06\/new-thunderbird-release-simplify-your-email-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">personalized email addresses<\/a> and will set them up for you automatically.\n<li>Something else to worry about: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/google-airplanes-and-you-thought-street-view-cars-were-all-you-had-to-worry-about-2012-06\" target=\"_blank\">Google planes<\/a>. Eventually, Google drones. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>One of the best rants yet on Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/12\/0612\/060512.html\" target=\"_blank\">soda pop idiocy<\/a>.\n<li>Quick. Without looking at the link, name the terrorist group that first blows people up &#8212; then blows up anyone who tries to rescue survivors &#8212; then blows up those who attend their funerals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/04\/obama_again_bombs_mourners\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">And this monstrous villain that all decent Americans oppose is &#8230;<\/a>\n<li>How hard is it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/06\/cia_drone_program_is_it_hard_to_shoot_one_down_.html\" target=\"_blank\">shoot down a drone<\/a>? (Unfortunately the article deals only with how hard it would be for a military to kill drones, not how hard it would be for a redneck with a rifle.)\n<li>Finally, in the trivia department, did you know that Ray Bradbury wrote a children&#8217;s book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovedogs.com\/2012\/06\/ray-bradbury-i-am-a-dog-who-thinks-every-day-is-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Dogs Think That Every Day is Christmas<\/i><\/a>?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A certain &#8220;victim of the American drug war&#8221; has wisely said goodbye in her own inimitable style to posting about her experiences as a snitch. Apparently, she&#8217;s been in this mood for a long, long time &#8212; though I suppose it&#8217;s &#8220;statist&#8221; of me to say so. Speaking of statist, a gifted Virginia schoolboy has been suspended for touching the American flag. We may live in a police state. But at least we can still drink our troubles away. Idaho is going to permit Five Wives vodka to be sold after all. But only after a famous lawyer threatened to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/friday-links-6\/\">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":[4,6,8,12,13,19,23,28,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","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\/10319","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=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}