{"id":11161,"date":"2012-09-06T02:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2012-09-06T02:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:09:20","slug":"thursday-links-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/thursday-links-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Technological crime-solving marvel! Police cameras save us from the dreaded threat of &#8230; erm &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/Orlando-s-I-R-I-S-cameras-help-nab-suspected-pot-smoker\/-\/1637132\/16409952\/-\/ab6pn6z\/-\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">cannabis residue on some guy&#8217;s teeth<\/a>. (H\/T JG)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimethinc.com\/texts\/atoz\/fuckpolice.php\" target=\"_blank\">Seven myths about the police<\/a>. (Civil-liberties left perspective, some f-bomb, good article.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/did-great-financial-crisis-start-end-gold-standard\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Did the great financial crisis start with the end of the gold standard?&#8221;<\/a> Uh, yeah.\n<li>Maybe it&#8217;s not what some of us would call simplifying. But for those still in the little rat-wheel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/08\/29\/living\/living-happily-with-less\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s a fine start<\/a>. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Jim Bovard)\n<li>Ah, it was nice, being an official part of <a href=\"http:\/\/libertarianalliance.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/02\/loompanics-a-trip-down-memory-lane\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;the lunatic fringe of the libertarian movement<\/a>.&#8221; (One correction, though. Loompanics didn&#8217;t go broke. Bossman Mike Hoy just decided to retire and close the biz.)\n<li>And while Obama pursues the War on (Some) Drugs, including the war on cannabis dispensaries more vigorously than his predecessor ever did, he tries to woo the youth vote with <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/obama-makes-stoner-jokes-while-the-doj-r\" target=\"_blank\">lame stoner jokes like this<\/a>. (Aside from the irony, doesn&#8217;t this strike you as the sort of heavy-handed &#8220;humor&#8221; one of your more embarrassing uncles might come up with?)\n<li>Even more embarrassingly, one of the &#8220;stoners&#8221; in question, actor Kal Penn, must be smoking something to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/09\/05\/kal-penn-defends-obamas-marijuana-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">defend Obama&#8217;s anti-cannabis policy<\/a> this way.\n<li>Matt Bracken&#8217;s take on what&#8217;ll happen in cities <a href=\"http:\/\/westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/03\/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;when the music stops.&#8221;<\/a> (H\/T Hobbit)<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technological crime-solving marvel! Police cameras save us from the dreaded threat of &#8230; erm &#8230; cannabis residue on some guy&#8217;s teeth. (H\/T JG) Seven myths about the police. (Civil-liberties left perspective, some f-bomb, good article.) &#8220;Did the great financial crisis start with the end of the gold standard?&#8221; Uh, yeah. Maybe it&#8217;s not what some of us would call simplifying. But for those still in the little rat-wheel it&#8217;s a fine start. (Tip o&#8217; hat to Jim Bovard) Ah, it was nice, being an official part of &#8220;the lunatic fringe of the libertarian movement.&#8221; (One correction, though. Loompanics didn&#8217;t go&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/06\/thursday-links-8\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[4,18,19,20,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","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\/11161","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=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}