{"id":16023,"date":"2013-12-23T01:31:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2013-12-23T01:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:31:49","slug":"monday-links-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/monday-links-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Senator Joe Manchin may be a conniving anti-gun suck. But he has just become the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/22\/joe-manchin-obamacare_n_4489784.html\" target=\"_blank\">biggest Democrat truth-teller<\/a> on Obamacare. &#8220;Meltdown &#8230; falls of its own weight &#8230; becomes more than we can absorb.&#8221; Devastating stuff!\n<li>Ever hear of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a scientist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara? Neither has anybody else. But 157 professional journals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/37798\/title\/Fake-Paper-Exposes-Failed-Peer-Review\/\" target=\"_blank\">were happy to accept<\/a> the extremely fake-sounding scientist&#8217;s extremely fake article.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithit.com\/brilliant-comedian-on-certainty-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What This Poet Says About Our Culture Is So Brilliant It Could Break Something in Your Brain.&#8221;<\/a> Well, maybe not <i>that<\/i> brilliant. But definitely very astute. And very funny, besides. (Tip o&#8217; hat to A.)\n<li>U.S. tech firms aren&#8217;t the only American businesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/12\/20\/us-boeing-brazil-insight-idUSBRE9BJ10P20131220\" target=\"_blank\">losing billions in sales because of the NSA<\/a>. Try &#8230; Boeing.\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2082720\/report-on-nsa-secret-payments-to-rsa-fuels-encryption-controversy.html\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s one that <i>deserves<\/i> to lose billions<\/a> thanks to its blatant collaboration. (The news about what RSA did isn&#8217;t new; that came out in September and was in fact suspected for years before that. But the fact that they profited so handsomely by it &#8230; well, let&#8217;s just hope they pay for that profit by going completely out of business. In this case, mere millions in losses might do the trick.)\n<li>To end on a cheerier note, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2013\/12\/18\/3470562\/little-dog-has-big-job-as-cary.html\" target=\"_blank\">little dog<\/a> that served as a living, breathing monitor while his little girl underwent surgery. &#8220;It sounds silly, in this age of technology, when we have millions of dollars worth of equipment beeping around me, that we had a little dog who was more sensitive than all the machines.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Joe Manchin may be a conniving anti-gun suck. But he has just become the biggest Democrat truth-teller on Obamacare. &#8220;Meltdown &#8230; falls of its own weight &#8230; becomes more than we can absorb.&#8221; Devastating stuff! Ever hear of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a scientist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara? Neither has anybody else. But 157 professional journals were happy to accept the extremely fake-sounding scientist&#8217;s extremely fake article. &#8220;What This Poet Says About Our Culture Is So Brilliant It Could Break Something in Your Brain.&#8221; Well, maybe not that brilliant. But definitely very astute. And very funny, besides.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/23\/monday-links-24\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[8,11,13,19,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-health-and-science","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\/16023","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=16023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}