{"id":14998,"date":"2013-09-12T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2013-09-12T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T17:13:47","slug":"thursday-links-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/thursday-links-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/10\/booming\/bad-dog.html\" target=\"_blank\">Loving a bad dog.<\/a> (Oh yeah. Been there &#8230;)\n<li>News of the weird. Shelley&#8217;s Ozymandias. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/ozymandias-plains\" target=\"_blank\">Um &#8230; with socks.<\/a>\n<li>Wall Street deals in physical commodities. Commodities producers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/114577\/commodities-trading-hedge-funds-spook-wall-st-banks\" target=\"_blank\">operate hedge funds and sell derivitives<\/a>. And there, and there, and there go the trillions.\n<li>I really like Ricky Gervais and I want to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/news\/ricky-gervais-new-series-derek-is-heartfelt-and-funny-20130912\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.\n<li>For anybody who still doubts that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alphecca.com\/?p=2560\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Snowden did the right thing<\/a>.\n<li>Won&#8217;t get anywhere. Not enough. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downsizedc.org\/blog\/new-campaign-support-the-surveillance-state-repeal-act\" target=\"_blank\">the Surveillance State Repeal Act<\/a> is a start.\n<li>Yes, we already know that the fedgov is run not merely by narcissists but by full-blown sociopaths. Still, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/09\/08\/war_mongers_are_appalling_narcissists\/\" target=\"_blank\">this <i>Salon<\/i> piece<\/a> about the &#8220;appalling narcissism&#8221; driving Syria intervention gives pretty good insight into the mentality (and destructiveness) of do-gooders.\n<li>Spencer W. Morgan reminds us that government power <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/pzkjtbu\" target=\"_blank\">is an illusion<\/a> we can break.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving a bad dog. (Oh yeah. Been there &#8230;) News of the weird. Shelley&#8217;s Ozymandias. Um &#8230; with socks. Wall Street deals in physical commodities. Commodities producers operate hedge funds and sell derivitives. And there, and there, and there go the trillions. I really like Ricky Gervais and I want to see this. For anybody who still doubts that Edward Snowden did the right thing. Won&#8217;t get anywhere. Not enough. But the Surveillance State Repeal Act is a start. Yes, we already know that the fedgov is run not merely by narcissists but by full-blown sociopaths. Still, this Salon piece&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/thursday-links-17\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[4,8,16,18,20,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-dogs-and-cats","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","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=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}