{"id":10756,"date":"2012-07-23T02:42:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2012-07-23T02:42:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T09:42:18","slug":"monday-links-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/monday-links-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Judge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/judge-acquits-portland-man-stripped-naked-tsa-checkpoint-article-1.1117677\" target=\"_blank\">acquits Oregon man<\/a> who stripped naked to protest TSA snoopery &#038; gropery. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT)\n<li>I always knew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Lenovo+CEO+Gives+Part+of+His+3+Million+USD+Bonus+to+10000+Employees\/article25227.htm\" target=\"_blank\">there was some reason I liked Lenovo<\/a>. Aside from the fact that they make good computers, I mean.\n<li>Wow. Just wow. Put yourself in this position: You inherit a multi-media work by a famous artist. However, because of the media used, the federal government forbids you to sell it. You&#8217;d go to prison if you did. So every appraiser says its value is $0. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/janetnovack\/2012\/07\/22\/the-irs-art-advisory-panel-has-its-head-inthe-clouds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ah, but not the IRS <\/a>. They not only want millions in taxes, but the penalties are heaping up and up and up &#8230;\n<li>I love it! The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/government\/policy\/240003971\" target=\"_blank\">cat signal<\/a> will soon help protect Internet freedom. Yay for the <a href=\"http:\/\/internetdefenseleague.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Defense League<\/a>!\n<li>Okay, I know about <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5926440\/are-authorities-closing-in-on-the-online-drug-market-silk-road\" target=\"_blank\">buying drugs via Silk Road<\/a>. Great business idea, folks. But you&#8217;ll pardon me if I&#8217;m skeptical that even the protection of TOR and bitcoin can keep a transaction truly anonymous <i>when the product still has to be mailed to you<\/i> and the dealer has to have your address to do it. Now comes <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5927379\/the-secret-online-weapons-store-thatll-sell-anyone-anything\" target=\"_blank\">the same model for guns<\/a>. I love it; I really do. Hooray for anything that thwarts governments poking into peaceable commerce. I&#8217;m just not lining up to buy.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/angloadventure.com\/2012\/07\/18\/airport-rules-tsa-rant-lighter-shoes\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#038;^%$$#@ing sanctimonious busybody<\/a>\n<li>Where is the line <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt-market.com\/articles\/916-where-is-the-line-for-revolution\" target=\"_blank\">for revolution<\/a>? (H\/T Jim B.)\n<li>I confess. I&#8217;m an advice-column junkie. I love &#8220;Dear Prudence.&#8221; Other than her penchant for believing that the state actually helps people, she&#8217;s got a lot of sense and gives some spirited advice. OMG, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/dear_prudence\/2012\/07\/dear_prudie_is_drunken_sex_with_my_husband_a_form_of_abuse_.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">first letter in this column<\/a> &#8230; now <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> a sign of how political correctness can really warp some young minds. And Prudie gives the writer a well-deserved smack upside the head.\n<li>If you wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/cretan-writes-heartfelt-letter-greek-irs\" target=\"_blank\">letter like this<\/a> to the taxers in the Land of the Free, they&#8217;d send a SWAT team out to shoot you to itty-bitty pieces.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge acquits Oregon man who stripped naked to protest TSA snoopery &#038; gropery. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT) I always knew there was some reason I liked Lenovo. Aside from the fact that they make good computers, I mean. Wow. Just wow. Put yourself in this position: You inherit a multi-media work by a famous artist. However, because of the media used, the federal government forbids you to sell it. You&#8217;d go to prison if you did. So every appraiser says its value is $0. Ah, but not the IRS . They not only want millions in taxes, but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/monday-links-4\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[9,12,23,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","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=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}