{"id":13921,"date":"2013-05-13T02:37:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13921"},"modified":"2013-05-13T02:37:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:37:15","slug":"monday-links-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/monday-links-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Dan Brown&#8217;s got a new potboiler coming out. I like Dan Brown. I wish I could boil the pot like he does. Critics disagree. One says so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dan-brown-new-book-inferrno-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">in a familiar voice<\/a>. \ud83d\ude42\n<li>Almost a neighbor. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/man-damages-washington-homes-bulldozer-19154960\" target=\"_blank\">Glad he&#8217;s not quite<\/a>.\n<li>Yet another judge fails to <a href=\"http:\/\/endthelie.com\/2013\/05\/10\/use-of-secretive-stingray-fbi-cell-phone-tracking-tool-ruled-lawful-by-judge\/#axzz2SwmMbhv0\" target=\"_blank\">grasp the Fourth Amendment<\/a>. (H\/T JJ)\n<li>Travis (<a href=\"http:\/\/morlockpublishing.com\/travis-j-i-corcoran\/\" target=\"_blank\">TJIC<\/a>) Corcoran&#8217;s upcoming novel <a href=\"http:\/\/morlockpublishing.com\/2013\/05\/the-next-big-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\">sounds intriguing<\/a>. I&#8217;d think so even if he didn&#8217;t take my name in vain in his trendy self-interview thingie.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iBY4HaAngaA\" target=\"_blank\">Escherian stairwell<\/a> \ud83d\ude09\n<li>Okay, so we&#8217;ve all heard about how the IRS illegally <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/politics\/2020959827_apusirspoliticalgroups.html\" target=\"_blank\">targeted tea party and related groups<\/a> around the 2012 election. And they are <i>so very, very sorry<\/i>. And we&#8217;ve heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/05\/11\/irs-knew-tea-party-targeted-in-2011\/2152585\/\" target=\"_blank\">how they were actually targeting them<\/a> for much longer than they originally admitted. And it&#8217;s no big news because the IRS has been a political tool since it was only the irs and hadn&#8217;t earned its capital letters yet, so you have to wonder what everyone&#8217;s getting so flapped about. What&#8217;s really mindboggling is that any reporter or editor could quote this with a straight face: &#8220;&#8230;the <b>practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati<\/b> and was <b>not motivated by political bias<\/b>.&#8221; Wow. <i>Orwell! Thou should&#8217;st be living at this hour.<\/i><br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Brown&#8217;s got a new potboiler coming out. I like Dan Brown. I wish I could boil the pot like he does. Critics disagree. One says so in a familiar voice. \ud83d\ude42 Almost a neighbor. Glad he&#8217;s not quite. Yet another judge fails to grasp the Fourth Amendment. (H\/T JJ) Travis (TJIC) Corcoran&#8217;s upcoming novel sounds intriguing. I&#8217;d think so even if he didn&#8217;t take my name in vain in his trendy self-interview thingie. The Escherian stairwell \ud83d\ude09 Okay, so we&#8217;ve all heard about how the IRS illegally targeted tea party and related groups around the 2012 election. And they&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/monday-links-13\/\">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":[4,11,16,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/13921","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=13921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}