{"id":1557,"date":"2010-06-07T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2010-06-07T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:09:20","slug":"monday-miscellany-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/monday-miscellany-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Housing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/more-important-than-europe-and-the-jobs-report-fresh-signs-that-housing-is-already-double-dipping-2010-6\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s double-dipping.<\/a> Anybody here surprised?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704113504575264513748386610.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse.&#8221;<\/a> Arthur Laffer says the illusory recovery of 2010 will go blooey on January 1.\n<li>Bounty hunter offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-504083_162-20006758-504083.html\" target=\"_blank\">Colton Harris-Moore<\/a> $50,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/06\/01\/encounter-with-an-outlaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">to surrender<\/a>. Don&#8217;t fall for it, Colt.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/03\/AR2010060304965.html?sub=AR\" target=\"_blank\">The secret wars expand<\/a>. &#8220;Special Operations commanders have also become a far more regular presence at the White House than they were under George W. Bush&#8217;s administration &#8230; &#8216;We have a lot more access,&#8217; a second military official said. &#8216;They are talking publicly much less but they are acting more. They are willing to get aggressive much more quickly.'&#8221;\n<li>Forget the RIAA and MPAA. A law firm has now figured out how to make P2P filesharing lawsuits <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2010\/06\/the-riaa-amateurs-heres-how-you-sue-p2p-users.ars\" target=\"_blank\">downright easy and automated<\/a>. Eew.\n<li>Has anybody read this book? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1906958009?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1906958009\" target=\"_blank\">Handbook for Rebels and Outlaws<\/a> by Mark Mirabello. Seems a very odd book for a college professor to write. But then, he sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FMark-Mirabello%2FB0036CF0O0%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dsr%5Ftc%5Ftag%5F2%26qid%3D1275872531%26sr%3D1-2-ent&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957\">quite an odd professor<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve read it, let me know in the comments section what you think about it.\n<li>Had to laugh when I read the reference to my late, great publisher &#8220;Loom Panics&#8221; in one of the reviews on that book&#8217;s Amazon page. Everybody thinks the name Loompanics Unlimited came from looming and panicking; the stuff they published certainly supported that assumption. But &#8212; straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth (that is, Mike Hoy, founder and publisher) &#8212; the company name was actually a play on the word &#8220;lampoon.&#8221; Mike&#8217;s first product was an index to the <i>National Lampoon<\/i>. Thus &#8220;lampoonics.&#8221; Thus &#8220;loompanics.&#8221;\n<li>Back when I was freelancing in the corporate world, my heart would sink if anybody on a project started talking about the importance of &#8220;teamwork.&#8221; It&#8217;s not that I Didn&#8217;t Play Well With Others. I did. It&#8217;s that the people most likely to talk about &#8220;teamwork&#8221; were the ones least likely to practice it. What they really meant &#8212; invariably &#8212; was, &#8220;I demand that everybody do everything exactly my way, or else. I can ride roughshod over you. And I will. Cheerfully. But if you so much as disagree with me, you&#8217;re not only wrong. You&#8217;re disloyal and you&#8217;re selfishly harming every other person here.&#8221; I never could get along with one of those people. Never did. But I don&#8217;t doubt that they sincerely believed the crap they were peddling. I think Obama is very much like that when he <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklystandard.com\/articles\/times-they-are-changin%E2%80%99-%E2%80%89%E2%80%89%E2%80%89%E2%80%89\" target=\"_blank\">talks about non-partisanship<\/a>. I don&#8217;t think his talk of &#8220;non-partisanship&#8221; is mere political BS. He sincerely believes it. He meets with Republicans, but his only goal is to get them behind his own agenda. When that doesn&#8217;t work, they&#8217;re &#8220;partisan.&#8221; But he&#8217;s not. He&#8217;s simply right and reasonable. Anyone who can&#8217;t see that is a selfish obstructionist. Similarly, how often has Obama said, or implied, that if he merely <i>communicated<\/i> something better &#8212; his gawdawful health-care bill, for instance &#8212; everyone would automatically get behind it? Like the &#8220;teamwork&#8221; tyrants, the very concept of different points of view is off his radar. Small, narrow man. No different than George W. Bush nattering on about &#8220;freedom&#8221; while taking freedom away. But pathetic.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing. It&#8217;s double-dipping. Anybody here surprised? &#8220;Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse.&#8221; Arthur Laffer says the illusory recovery of 2010 will go blooey on January 1. Bounty hunter offers Colton Harris-Moore $50,000 to surrender. Don&#8217;t fall for it, Colt. The secret wars expand. &#8220;Special Operations commanders have also become a far more regular presence at the White House than they were under George W. Bush&#8217;s administration &#8230; &#8216;We have a lot more access,&#8217; a second military official said. &#8216;They are talking publicly much less but they are acting more. They are willing to get aggressive much more quickly.&#8217;&#8221; Forget&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/monday-miscellany-9\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday miscellany<\/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":[4,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-government","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","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=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}