{"id":1125,"date":"2010-04-18T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2010-04-18T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T19:10:54","slug":"weekend-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/weekend-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>First thing &#8230; don&#8217;t forget: The eBay auctions for souvenir copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/DONT-SHOOT-THE-BASTARDS-YET-Claire-Wolfe_W0QQitemZ200460743156QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAntiquarian_Collectible?hash=item2eac6431f4\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Don&#8217;t Shoot the Bastards (Yet)<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/101-THINGS-TO-DO-TIL-THE-REVOLUTION-Claire-Wolfe_W0QQitemZ200460749190QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAntiquarian_Collectible?hash=item2eac644986\" target=\"_blank\"><i>101 Things to Do &#8216;Til the Revolution<\/i><\/a> end Monday morning. Thank you for all the bidding so far, and cheers to the charming young bidder who&#8217;s been leading the pack most of the week. Ah, but those last hours can be interesting &#8230;\n<li>Daryl Gates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/2010\/04\/17\/daryl-gates\/\" target=\"_blank\">He was even worse than I realized.<\/a> Especially read the bit from David Cay Johnston. Ugh.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/BR35.2\/dayan.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dead Dogs.&#8221;<\/a> This is quite long and may be too painful for dog lovers to read. But its account of lethal stereotyping will make your blood boil.\n<li>In better news, an MIT student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1616025\/mit-student-develops-cutting-edge-low-cost-healing-for-the-developing-world?partner=yahoobuzz\" target=\"_blank\">has invented a cutting-edge medical device<\/a>. For $3.\n<li>I <i>think<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/12\/science\/12psychedelics.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is good news, too. Only time will tell.\n<li>My goodness. Has somebody <a href=\"http:\/\/ahprojects.com\/c\/itp\/thesis\" target=\"_blank\">been reading<\/a> a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0964230488?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0964230488\" target=\"_blank\"><i>RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone<\/i><\/a>? (Thank you, S. for sending that along.)\n<li>Whatever else he may or may not be, Steve Wynn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/weird-news\/article\/steve-wynn-calls-his-divorce-most-expensive-ever\/19433852\" target=\"_blank\">is a classy guy<\/a>. (The headline isn&#8217;t the real story.)\n<li>Last week we had <i>really, really<\/i> good lawmaking news out of Arizona: That state <i>will<\/i> become the third in the union to go to Vermont carry. Governor Jan Brewer signed the bill into law. Then came the bad. You&#8217;ve probably heard that the legislature passed and sent to the gov an alleged anti-illegal-immigrant bill that will make &#8220;Your papers, please!&#8221; a daily reality for anybody of the tan persuasion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-arizona16-2010apr16,0,4477298.story\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a very balanced <i>L.A. Times<\/i> editorial<\/a> on the pitfalls of the law, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-arizona-immigration18-2010apr18,0,7823018.story\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> explaining why even some cops don&#8217;t like &#8212; and might refuse to enforce &#8212; the measure if it becomes law.\n<li>Finally, a couple of weeks back, 7,500 online shoppers unknowingly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/04\/15\/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls\/?test=latestnews\" target=\"_blank\">sold their souls to the devil<\/a>. Not to worry; in this case he won&#8217;t be collecting. But really, that might teach us to read those dreary product-licensing agreements.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thing &#8230; don&#8217;t forget: The eBay auctions for souvenir copies of Don&#8217;t Shoot the Bastards (Yet) and 101 Things to Do &#8216;Til the Revolution end Monday morning. Thank you for all the bidding so far, and cheers to the charming young bidder who&#8217;s been leading the pack most of the week. Ah, but those last hours can be interesting &#8230; Daryl Gates. He was even worse than I realized. Especially read the bit from David Cay Johnston. Ugh. &#8220;Dead Dogs.&#8221; This is quite long and may be too painful for dog lovers to read. But its account of lethal&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/18\/weekend-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}