{"id":1584,"date":"2010-06-09T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:48:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:48:26","slug":"wednesday-at-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/wednesday-at-random\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday at random"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><uL><\/p>\n<li>Great story of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepets.com\/news\/dogs\/homeless-man-rescues-dog-dumped-in-6-foot-oil-pit\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Homeless man rescues hopeless dog<\/a>.\n<li>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalreview.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News<\/a>, top honors go to a Forest Ranger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/07\/AR2010060704358.html?sub=AR\" target=\"_blank\">who sounds like he deserves them<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/article.php?view=913\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Democracy breeds gullibility.&#8221;<\/a> Which breeds worse.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dudeism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dudeism!<\/a> Now there&#8217;s a religion I could get behind. If I weren&#8217;t too busy swinging in a hammock in the shade. Sipping a Margarita. Tip o&#8217; hat to Pirate King Lufty at <a href=\"https:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Mental Militia Forums<\/a>.\n<li>Long before I ever heard the terms &#8220;paleo diet,&#8221; &#8220;caveman diet,&#8221; &#8220;neanderthal diet,&#8221; or &#8220;pirmal diet&#8221; my food intake had been moving in that direction. My body simply told me (after years of abuse and more years of working toward better nutrition) that fruits, veggies, and nuts were what it most appreciated. Now I&#8217;m reading Mark Sisson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0982207700?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0982207700\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy<\/i><\/a> and embarking on a 30-day experiment in going &#8220;all primal.&#8221; (Basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paleonu.com\/get-started\/\" target=\"_blank\">doing this<\/a>.)  I don&#8217;t usually &#8220;do&#8221; diets or do anything trendy if I can help it (and the primal diet has become <i>tres<\/i> trendy among libertarians and Austriophiles, thanks in part to vigorous promotion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\" target=\"_blank\">LewRockwell.com<\/a>). This just seems to make nutritional and evolutionary sense. I&#8217;m not, though, looking forward to eating more meat and no bread. Not to mention having no sweeteners (not even benign, benevolent Stevia!) in my morning tea. And I wonder how close any modern person can really get to &#8220;primal&#8221; without access to lots of home-grown, grass-fed, organic, non-hybrid, etc. foods (which we don&#8217;t have here in the remote high desert). Anybody have any &#8220;primal&#8221; experiences to share?\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. Almost forgot. It really <i>was<\/i> Colton Harris-Moore, the legendary &#8220;Barefoot Bandit,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/06\/01\/encounter-with-an-outlaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">who left a $100 donation<\/a> with my old vet last week. He&#8217;s now known to have been in the area, thanks to surveillance video from a store and a couple of characteristic thefts (vehicles taken then abandoned when he&#8217;d gotten where he wanted to go). Sadly, his donation for abused animals and the note he left with it both had to be turned over to an FBI taskforce. I don&#8217;t know whether the money was ill-gotten or given to him honestly by a helper. If ill-gotten, it would be best to see it returned to the person who earned it. But since that&#8217;s highly unlikely, I&#8217;m sure my wonderful vet could have made better use of it than the fibbies ever will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great story of the week: Homeless man rescues hopeless dog. Via Rational Review News, top honors go to a Forest Ranger who sounds like he deserves them. &#8220;Democracy breeds gullibility.&#8221; Which breeds worse. Dudeism! Now there&#8217;s a religion I could get behind. If I weren&#8217;t too busy swinging in a hammock in the shade. Sipping a Margarita. Tip o&#8217; hat to Pirate King Lufty at The Mental Militia Forums. Long before I ever heard the terms &#8220;paleo diet,&#8221; &#8220;caveman diet,&#8221; &#8220;neanderthal diet,&#8221; or &#8220;pirmal diet&#8221; my food intake had been moving in that direction. My body simply told me (after&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/wednesday-at-random\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday at random<\/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":[8,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","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=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}