{"id":1610,"date":"2010-06-12T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2010-06-12T03:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T10:43:13","slug":"saturday-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/saturday-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Okay, I don&#8217;t usually link to stuff from Alex Jones Paranoialand. I roll my eyes at others who do. But tell me, you physics and geophysics guys out there (and I just know there are dozens of science geeks reading this blog): How far out of reality is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rense.com\/general91\/oilor.htm\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/extremehumanperformance.com\/blog\/new-video-from-damien-walters-beyond-parkour-and-gymnastics\/\" target=\"_blank\">I could do that<\/a>. I mean, if I really wanted to, you know. (Short video)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/203778\/do-marijuana-and-driving-mix\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Do marijuana and driving mix?&#8221;<\/a> Well, I don&#8217;t know. (The business of driving super-slow to be safer is one way cops already use to spot the impaired.) But you can be sure cannabis is getting closer to the mainstream when <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/world\/africa\/10287075.stm\" target=\"_blank\">nuns start growing it<\/a>.\n<li>A few reasons I don&#8217;t write more about gun rights these days: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-2581-St-Louis-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m6d9-Score-Chicago-illegal-gun-owners-3-bad-guys-0\" target=\"_blank\">The good guys are winning.<\/a> And the bad guys are either showing themselves as the thuggish jackasses they are (ala Mayor Daley&#8217;s famously barbaric  threat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d23-Gun-owners-should-thank-embarrassing-Mayor-Daley?cid=edition-by-channel-rss-National-Politics\" target=\"_blank\">to stick a bayonet and fire a round up a reporter&#8217;s butt<\/a>) or they&#8217;re simply <a href=\"https:\/\/thementalmilitia.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=26370.0\" target=\"_blank\">withering away<\/a>. Not to mention that BHM already has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/\" target=\"_blank\">gun columnist<\/a>. Still, gun rights are deep in my heart  &#038; I haven&#8217;t forgotten about them.\n<li>But Social Security? Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/social-security-payouts-are-already-crippling-the-government-this-year-2010-6\" target=\"_blank\">that&#8217;s not doing so well.<\/a>\n<li>Congratulations to BHM managing editor Annie (Duffy) Tuttle and husband Erik. It&#8217;s a girl! Clara Lynn. And cheers also to the kindhearted WK and his dear wife. For them, it&#8217;s a boy!\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I don&#8217;t usually link to stuff from Alex Jones Paranoialand. I roll my eyes at others who do. But tell me, you physics and geophysics guys out there (and I just know there are dozens of science geeks reading this blog): How far out of reality is this? I could do that. I mean, if I really wanted to, you know. (Short video) &#8220;Do marijuana and driving mix?&#8221; Well, I don&#8217;t know. (The business of driving super-slow to be safer is one way cops already use to spot the impaired.) But you can be sure cannabis is getting closer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/12\/saturday-miscellany\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday 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":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","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=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}