{"id":14594,"date":"2013-07-23T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14594"},"modified":"2013-07-23T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T16:26:29","slug":"tuesday-links-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/tuesday-links-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Another unexpected consequence in the (very long) wake of Hurricane Sandy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/22\/nyregion\/a-vintage-mystery-in-a-flooded-wine-cellar.html\" target=\"_blank\">the millionaires&#8217; missing wine<\/a>. A fascinating only-in-New-York kinda story.\n<li>Now that&#8217;s one young lady <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/07\/22\/woman-rebuffs-kills-armed-man-at-houston-gas-stop\/2574971\/\" target=\"_blank\">you don&#8217;t want to trifle with<\/a>.\n<li>Economist, commentator, and actor (&#8220;Bueller?&#8221;) Ben Stein <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/07\/22\/feeling-the-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\">makes one of the wisest observations<\/a> following the Martin\/Zimmerman case. In this, his thinking is <a href=\"https:\/\/johnib.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/16\/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-said-in-1961-do-you-know-that-negroes-are-10-percent-of-the-population-of-st-louis-and-are-responsible-for-58-of-its-crimes-weve-got-to-face-that\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lot like Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s<\/a>.\n<li>SF\/fantasy writer Larry Correia <a href=\"https:\/\/larrycorreia.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/22\/on-profiling-and-stand-your-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\">gives Stein some competition<\/a>. Or at least gives Obama&#8217;s whiny, divisive speech (&#8220;I&#8217;m Trayvon and you&#8217;re all a bunch of racists&#8221;) its very best fisking. Followed by some voice-of-experience from being a big, dark, scary-looking guy who also knows firearms and self defense.\n<li>Correia <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=Larry%20Correia&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps\">writes cool, fun, lively books<\/a>, too. And scads of &#8217;em. Read &#8217;em if you haven&#8217;t! Read &#8217;em again if you have.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lagniappeslair.blogspot.com\/2013\/07\/feets-i-got-em.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Feets &#8212; I Got &#8216;Em.&#8221;<\/a> Artificial ones, that is. A look at those prices gives greater appreciation of what desert hermit <a href=\"http:\/\/joelsgulch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joel<\/a> goes through with a leg that &#8230; oh, will I go to hell for such an awful pun? &#8230; is on its last legs.\n<li>Hm. Makes as much sense as anything else in religion. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/07\/18\/pink-mass-westboro-baptist-church-gay-satanists_n_3616642.html\" target=\"_blank\">Except it&#8217;s funnier.<\/a>\n<li>From firearms instructor LarryA in a recent comment section. Too good to be left in obscurity: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corneredcat.com\/article\/understanding-crime\/dying-of-embarrassment\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dying of Embarrassment.&#8221;<\/a> Falling into peril because we&#8217;re conditioned not to step outside of social norms. Clearly the woman in the second link above got past that conditioning.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another unexpected consequence in the (very long) wake of Hurricane Sandy: the millionaires&#8217; missing wine. A fascinating only-in-New-York kinda story. Now that&#8217;s one young lady you don&#8217;t want to trifle with. Economist, commentator, and actor (&#8220;Bueller?&#8221;) Ben Stein makes one of the wisest observations following the Martin\/Zimmerman case. In this, his thinking is a lot like Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s. SF\/fantasy writer Larry Correia gives Stein some competition. Or at least gives Obama&#8217;s whiny, divisive speech (&#8220;I&#8217;m Trayvon and you&#8217;re all a bunch of racists&#8221;) its very best fisking. Followed by some voice-of-experience from being a big, dark, scary-looking guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/23\/tuesday-links-20\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday 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":[4,12,13,16,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594","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=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}