{"id":14630,"date":"2013-07-26T01:40:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2013-07-26T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:40:21","slug":"friday-links-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/26\/friday-links-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;And if he could just give up [his addiction to running for office], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/john-oliver-anthony-weiner-daily-show-carlos-danger-2013-7\" target=\"_blank\">he could live a full, productive life as an internet sex freak!&#8221;<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/predator_student_loans_KI6ru5RWTZyxHKDc2WLpXO\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Predator student loans.&#8221;<\/a> Why are so many commentaries so good at analyzing problems and so lame at naming <i>real<\/i> solutions?\n<li>Your &#8220;representatives&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/proposal-to-restrict-nsa-phone-tracking-program-defeated\/2013\/07\/24\/af233280-f47e-11e2-9434-60440856fadf_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">like spying on you<\/a>. Even when they aren&#8217;t personally allowed in on all your secrets. I guess we can comfort ourselves that the vote was at least impressively close.\n<li>Oh yeah. Now <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2013\/07\/24\/nearly-400-year-old-long-island-town-passes-controversial-dark-skies-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">this is a not-bright idea.<\/a> In more ways than one.\n<li>The other day we linked to economist and actor Ben Stein. Today &#8230; economist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2013\/07\/no_author\/peter-schiff-stand-up-comic\/\" target=\"_blank\">stand-up comic<\/a> Peter Schiff.\n<li>A bit more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-black-guns-nra-20130723-dto,0,3571136.htmlstory\" target=\"_blank\">Colion Noir<\/a>.\n<li>New TSA program: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyleak.com\/tsa-fingerprints-web-history-and-keep-your-shoes-on\/\" target=\"_blank\">for those who really dig &#8220;compliance&#8221;<\/a> but would just rather trade one kind for another.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And if he could just give up [his addiction to running for office], he could live a full, productive life as an internet sex freak!&#8221; &#8220;Predator student loans.&#8221; Why are so many commentaries so good at analyzing problems and so lame at naming real solutions? Your &#8220;representatives&#8221; like spying on you. Even when they aren&#8217;t personally allowed in on all your secrets. I guess we can comfort ourselves that the vote was at least impressively close. Oh yeah. Now this is a not-bright idea. In more ways than one. The other day we linked to economist and actor Ben Stein.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/26\/friday-links-15\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[11,12,16,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-humor","category-miscellaneous","category-money","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\/14630","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=14630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}