{"id":12131,"date":"2012-11-19T02:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=12131"},"modified":"2012-11-19T02:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:28:25","slug":"monday-links-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/monday-links-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Too bad <a href=\"http:\/\/now.msn.com\/ten-commandments-monument-at-oklahoma-state-capitol-includes-misspellings\" target=\"_blank\">granite slabs don&#8217;t include a spellchecker<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2012\/11\/14\/epitaph-for-a-four-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Epitaph for a Four Star.&#8221;<\/a> A scathing retrospective on Petraeus from a military man. (H\/T EN, who knows the author)\n<li>Um &#8230; lessee if I understand this correctly. You can&#8217;t quit favoring women and minorities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/11\/15\/justice\/michigan-affirmative-action-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\">because it violates the <i>equal protection<\/i> clause<\/a>???\n<li>The Seattle PD has done a lot of baaaad things. But once in a while they get it right. They just hired a former journalist from an alternative weekly to write a handbook to cannabis legalization. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/seattle-police-posts-guide-legal-pot-17723985#.UKUAO9ZGLUY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Marijwhatnow?&#8221;<\/a> Among other advice: &#8220;Hold your breath.&#8221;\n<li>This fascinating story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/11\/ff-the-manuscript\/all\/\" target=\"_blank\">linguists and code-crackers<\/a> uncovering a heretofore unknown secret society is long and detailed enough I thought I might save it for a weekend read. But what the heck; you geek types and scholars will find this an excellent way to avoid Monday morning. (H\/T JG)\n<li>Great WSJ <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323894704578115440209134854.html\" target=\"_blank\">profile on F.I.R.E.<\/a>, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, those great free-speech, anti-PC fighters.\n<li>Preparedness <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/18\/magazine\/how-to-survive-societal-collapse-in-suburbia.html\" target=\"_blank\">goes mainstream in the NYT<\/a>. (Yes, you&#8217;ll shudder at the man exposing himself and his family in the photo.) (Tip o&#8217; hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Bovard<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad granite slabs don&#8217;t include a spellchecker &#8220;Epitaph for a Four Star.&#8221; A scathing retrospective on Petraeus from a military man. (H\/T EN, who knows the author) Um &#8230; lessee if I understand this correctly. You can&#8217;t quit favoring women and minorities because it violates the equal protection clause??? The Seattle PD has done a lot of baaaad things. But once in a while they get it right. They just hired a former journalist from an alternative weekly to write a handbook to cannabis legalization. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Marijwhatnow?&#8221; Among other advice: &#8220;Hold your breath.&#8221; This fascinating story about linguists&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/monday-links-10\/\">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":[16,19,23,27,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","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\/12131","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=12131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}