{"id":10785,"date":"2012-07-24T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T02:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=10785"},"modified":"2012-07-24T19:47:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T02:47:16","slug":"midweek-miscellany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/midweek-miscellany-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with some stuff right now. Having a chaotic and upsetting day (in part because of a dog rescue gone wrong and causing a neighborhood uproar). Should have a nice, content-heavy post soon, but for now, just so you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m thinking of you &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/new-lab-working-security-shoe-sole-id-people\" target=\"_blank\">gee-whiz-golly &#8220;security&#8221; inventions<\/a> we can expect, and hope, never to hear about again. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT)\n<li>Who <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>really<\/i> invented the Internet<\/a>?\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/comment\/2012\/07\/gun-laws-and-batman.html\" target=\"_blank\">Batman lost his gun<\/a>. From an anti-gunner&#8217;s (ugh) viewpoint. (Who knew that the <i>Miller<\/i> decision was &#8220;uncontroversial&#8221;?)\n<li>Those cables that Wikileaks published and are now all over the &#8216;Net? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2012\/07\/24\/aclu_wikileaks_case_judge_rules_guantanamo_cables_still_secret.html\" target=\"_blank\">They&#8217;re secret<\/a>. Never mind that all the world can see them at will. They&#8217;re still secret &#8212; because the government says so.\n<li>Wendy McElroy has <a href=\"http:\/\/lfb.org\/today\/freedom-is-dead-long-live-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">really been on a roll lately<\/a>.\n<li>Police thuggery: <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2012\/07\/22\/some-humarock-residents-discuss-seceding-from-scituate-in-bonfire-dispute\/\" target=\"_blank\">not just a big city or deep south problem<\/a> any more. (H\/T Jim B.)\n<li>Speaking of which &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tsanewsblog.com\/214\/news\/history-repeats-itself-with-tsas-strip-search-tactics\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.\u201d<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dealing with some stuff right now. Having a chaotic and upsetting day (in part because of a dog rescue gone wrong and causing a neighborhood uproar). Should have a nice, content-heavy post soon, but for now, just so you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m thinking of you &#8230; This is one of those gee-whiz-golly &#8220;security&#8221; inventions we can expect, and hope, never to hear about again. (Tip o&#8217; hat to PT) Who really invented the Internet? How Batman lost his gun. From an anti-gunner&#8217;s (ugh) viewpoint. (Who knew that the Miller decision was &#8220;uncontroversial&#8221;?) Those cables that Wikileaks published and are now all&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/24\/midweek-miscellany-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[6,9,11,12,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785","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=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}