{"id":12035,"date":"2012-11-12T02:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T09:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2012-11-12T02:40:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T09:40:14","slug":"monday-links-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/monday-links-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/?p=4090\" target=\"_blank\">Tribes<\/a>. (Aka help Tam, Queen of Snark, and maybe win some cool gunstuff.)\n<li>Hm. Happy life? Meaningful life? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/happy-vs-meaningful-life-2012-11\" target=\"_blank\">Choices &#8230; choices &#8230;<\/a>\n<li>How to devise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/08\/technology\/personaltech\/how-to-devise-passwords-that-drive-hackers-away.html\" target=\"_blank\">more secure passwords<\/a>. (Yeah, we&#8217;ve been here before; always a good reminder, though.)\n<li>I know some cynics think Obama and Eric Holder will kill recreational cannabis in Washington and Colorado. They&#8217;ll try. But this is a battle they&#8217;re going to lose. The new legalization is already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weed-legalization-mexico-drug-war-2012-11\" target=\"_blank\">making waves in Mexico<\/a>. And having a very, very <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/localnews\/2019648851_marijuana10m.html\" target=\"_blank\">real effect on prosecutions<\/a> in Washington state.\n<li>Hey, look! Europe has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/3-bumpy-years-europe-turns-corner-crisis-162356666--finance.html\" target=\"_blank\">turned the corner<\/a> and is headed for financial stability! Yeahhhh. If you &#8220;turn the corner&#8221; every three months (as pundits are wont to proclaim), how long before you get hopelessly lost in the maze? (H\/T. JS)\n<li>I&#8217;m seeing so many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/new-york\/occupy-sandy-onetime-protesters-find-new-cause-1.4208449\" target=\"_blank\">stories like this<\/a> I&#8217;m beginning to think Occupy Wall Street is turning into the old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diggers\" target=\"_blank\">Diggers<\/a>. Or rather the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diggers_%28theater%29\" target=\"_blank\">newer old Diggers<\/a>. (Like &#8217;em or not, they&#8217;re doing something good and on a strictly voluntary, spontaneous-order basis.)\n<li>Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/emergency-preparedness\/camp-fema-update-we-feel-like-were-in-a-concentration-camp_11112012\" target=\"_blank\">FEMA, for instance<\/a>.\n<li>And while you&#8217;re contemplating those happy\/meaningful choices, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindsredding.com\/2012\/03\/11\/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lesson in perspective<\/a>. Linds Redding wrote this while dying of cancer. Linds Redding was a creative type who left the ad business. So was I. Lucky for me, I reached the same conclusions for similar reasons 20 years younger than he did and without the fatal reality check. (Yes, of course, you can have <i>both<\/i> happiness and meaning.)\n<li>Oh yeah. <i>Now<\/i> he regrets having been a member and builder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/11\/petraeus-cult-2\/all\/1\" target=\"_blank\">the Petraeus cult<\/a>. But pal, wasn&#8217;t it your job as a journalist to be skeptical <i>all along<\/i>?\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribes. (Aka help Tam, Queen of Snark, and maybe win some cool gunstuff.) Hm. Happy life? Meaningful life? Choices &#8230; choices &#8230; How to devise more secure passwords. (Yeah, we&#8217;ve been here before; always a good reminder, though.) I know some cynics think Obama and Eric Holder will kill recreational cannabis in Washington and Colorado. They&#8217;ll try. But this is a battle they&#8217;re going to lose. The new legalization is already making waves in Mexico. And having a very, very real effect on prosecutions in Washington state. Hey, look! Europe has turned the corner and is headed for financial stability!&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/12\/monday-links-9\/\">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":[12,13,18,20,26,27,28,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-money","category-practical-freedom","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","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\/12035","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=12035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}