{"id":15714,"date":"2013-11-19T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T00:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=15714"},"modified":"2013-11-19T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T00:55:41","slug":"latest-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/19\/latest-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softgreenglow.com\/wp\/2013\/11\/if-you-arent-a-fan-of-having-your-movements-tracked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snooping in Seattle<\/a> &#8230; in the name of providing a &#8220;service.&#8221;\n<li>Has the quality of social workers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1169806\/boy-chained-up-with-dead-chicken-around-neck\" target=\"_blank\">always been this dismal<\/a>?\n<li>Fear of terrorism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/06\/fear-of-terror-makes-people-stupid.html\" target=\"_blank\">makes people stupid<\/a>. Sure, we knew that. But check out that stat about the odds of being killed by a terrorist vs a cop!\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/quora\/2013\/11\/18\/what_is_it_like_to_be_smart_or_geeky_in_prison.html\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s it like being a geek in prison?<\/a> More and more Americans need to know.\n<li>Looks as if <i>Catching Fire<\/i> is going to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/tv-movies\/hunger-games-catching-fire-movie-review-article-1.1521444\" target=\"_blank\">as good as the first <i>Hunger Games<\/i> movie<\/a>. Interesting, too, how this reviewer automatically uses terms making parallels with today&#8217;s USA.\n<li>From comments: Reader A.G. offers up a <a href=\"http:\/\/zerogov.com\/?p=3114\" target=\"_blank\">booklist for the end of the world<\/a>. (And of course, you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/?tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\">know where to buy those books<\/a>, right?)\n<li>Yet another devoted Obama supporter <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2013\/11\/my-obamacare-cancellation\/\" target=\"_blank\">laments his fate<\/a> under the wheel of Obamacare.\n<li>Some good news in that regard: The percentage of poll-answering Americans who think that the fedgov should be responsible for health care vs the percentage of those who say no way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2013\/11\/19\/the-insiders-obamacare-shifts-voters-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\">has flip-flopped<\/a> nicely. Let&#8217;s hope permanently.\n<li>Finally, here&#8217;s a bit of strange cheer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/atlas_obscura\/2013\/11\/19\/the_heidelberg_project_brings_color_art_and_controversy_to_a_decaying_part.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Heidelberg Project<\/a> brings outsider art to some of Detroit&#8217;s worst places.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snooping in Seattle &#8230; in the name of providing a &#8220;service.&#8221; Has the quality of social workers always been this dismal? Fear of terrorism makes people stupid. Sure, we knew that. But check out that stat about the odds of being killed by a terrorist vs a cop! What&#8217;s it like being a geek in prison? More and more Americans need to know. Looks as if Catching Fire is going to be as good as the first Hunger Games movie. Interesting, too, how this reviewer automatically uses terms making parallels with today&#8217;s USA. From comments: Reader A.G. offers up a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/19\/latest-links\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Latest 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":[4,19,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","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\/15714","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=15714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}