{"id":109,"date":"2010-02-01T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=109"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:32:43","slug":"monday-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/monday-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a small collection of stuff I&#8217;ve picked up or thoughts I&#8217;ve thunk during the last week. This might become a regular feature. Or not. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>An astute observer<\/b> dropped this into the comments on a census post this morning: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toad.com\/gnu\/census.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust the Census.&#8221;<\/a> Maybe you knew that so-called &#8220;confidential&#8221; census data was used to round up Japanese-Americans during World War II. Did you know that General Sherman &#8212; he of the unpunished &#8220;civil&#8221; war crimes &#8212; used census data in his genocidal march to the sea?<\/li>\n<li><b>The virtues of adversity.<\/b> I mentioned the heroic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elizabeth_Kenny\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Kenny<\/a> in my recent post about inspirational movies. That led me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_polio_survivors\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia listing of famous polio survivors<\/a>. Notice how many became writers or sports stars or even in one case a famous dancer <i>because<\/i> of their suffering.<\/li>\n<li><b>Something weird over at <i>Time<\/i> magazine.<\/b> This is the second time I&#8217;ve seen them publish an article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/nation\/article\/0,8599,1957743,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">about secessionists <\/a> that wasn&#8217;t both error-filled and sneering. Wow.\n<li><b>From the &#8220;Things I&#8217;ll Never Understand&#8221; department<\/b>. Why do so many people think it&#8217;s worse to <i>expose<\/i> a bad deed than it is to actually <i>do<\/i> the awful act in the first place?<br \/> I give you (in some slightly old news) Obama and Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/75080\/supreme-court-sides-with-obama-on-torture-photos.html\" target=\"_blank\">both blocking revelation<\/a> of more photos of more government hirelings committing more (and possibly worse) torture than was revealed at Abu Ghraib.<br \/>\nTheir claim (as put by the Obamaites; the Busheviks probably had more personal worries): that the images would &#8220;further inflame anti-American opinion&#8221; and endanger U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br \/>\nUh &#8230; no, dude. Fessing up to the photos could lance the festering boil and begin the healing. It may hurt at first, but it&#8217;s the only way to say, &#8220;We don&#8217;t approve and will forever put a halt to war crimes like these.&#8221; <i>Hiding<\/i> the evidence when everybody already knows the crimes were committed, and are possibly still being committed &#8230; now that&#8217;s what will &#8220;inflame&#8221; people.<br \/>\nThis reminds me of an old neighbor of mine whose creepy son was accused of molesting several children. One of the accusers was a cousin. &#8220;Mom&#8221; went up and down the neighborhood, loudly decrying the &#8220;betrayal&#8221; by her relatives. &#8220;They should have kept it in the family!&#8221; she railed. She never denied that her son did the deed. The only bad thing was that anyone would dare <i>speak<\/i> about it.<br \/>\nPeople. We&#8217;re very strange creatures.<\/li>\n<li><b>Finally, I&#8217;ve just received copies<\/b> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1449970192?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1449970192\"><i>Indy-Pindy: The Liberty Mouse<\/i><\/a>, the new freedomista childrens&#8217; book, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1449979270?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1449979270\"><i>Kent&#8217;s Liberty Primer<\/i><\/a>, both by Kent McManigal. Kent already has permanent kudos from me for creating the &#8220;Time&#8217;s Up&#8221; or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dullhawk.com\/timesup.html\" target=\"_blank\">DullHawk flag<\/a>. I&#8217;ll have more on the books later in the week. But so far &#8230; good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a small collection of stuff I&#8217;ve picked up or thoughts I&#8217;ve thunk during the last week. This might become a regular feature. Or not. \ud83d\ude42 An astute observer dropped this into the comments on a census post this morning: &#8220;Don&#8217;t Trust the Census.&#8221; Maybe you knew that so-called &#8220;confidential&#8221; census data was used to round up Japanese-Americans during World War II. Did you know that General Sherman &#8212; he of the unpunished &#8220;civil&#8221; war crimes &#8212; used census data in his genocidal march to the sea? The virtues of adversity. I mentioned the heroic Sister Kenny in my recent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/monday-miscellany\/\">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":[4,11,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-miscellaneous","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\/109","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=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}