{"id":1626,"date":"2010-06-15T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2010-06-15T07:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T14:56:25","slug":"tuesday-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/tuesday-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Via Wendy McElroy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/working\/100610\/fitzsimmons.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">the gummint&#8217;s view<\/a> of all us &#8220;stay out of debt and be responsible&#8221; types. \ud83d\ude09\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-tshamba-police-shooting-20100608,0,7859497,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">So this<\/a> is the kind of person being hired to &#8220;protect and serve&#8221; these days. Whoo, scary.\n<li>Maybe he should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2010\/07\/the-case-for-calling-them-nitwits\/8130\/\" target=\"_blank\">become a terrorist<\/a>, instead. He seems to have all the qualifications.\n<li>There are &#8220;experts&#8221; predicting hyperinflation. There are &#8220;experts&#8221; who sneer at that, pointing out that we&#8217;re obviously in greater danger from deflation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewfromtheblueridge.com\/2010\/06\/13\/inflation-and-monetary-regimes\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+viewfromtheblueridge%2FJkgK+%28The+View+from+the+Blue+Ridge%29\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the best explanation I&#8217;ve seen<\/a> of why the latter can easily lead to the former.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704002104575290451594973266.html?mod=rss_Today\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Toxic Citizens.&#8221;<\/a> Even the WSJ is now noticing. And it says what&#8217;s bad for U.S. citizens living abroad may eventually be bad for the USA.\n<li>Okay, but on the lighter side &#8230; You&#8217;ve been to that site. I know you have. Or at least you&#8217;ve seen its animal photos with their cute little &#8220;I can has cheezburger&#8221; captions. But. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/14\/technology\/internet\/14burger.html?src=busln\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the difference<\/a> between just playing around online and turning a good idea into a mini-empire. Long live creative capitalism!\n<li>I mentioned last week that I&#8217;m doing a 30-day experiment in primal nutrition (a subject on which blog commentors have been of huge help, thank you). So far, okay. But Sunday night I got to wondering: &#8220;Geez, if this really turns out to be the way to eat &#8212; no grains, no sweeteners, just meat, veggies, nuts, and fruit, basically &#8212; what&#8217;s up with all that long-term storage food sitting out there in the barn?&#8221; I mean &#8230; wheat berries, TVP granules, sugar, germade, pinto beans, powdered milk, even those notorious lentils I like to joke about &#8230; sure that could keep a body alive in rough times. But what would <i>primal<\/i> emergency food preps look like? The very next morning, purely by chance, I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksdailyapple.com\/primal-preparations-for-the-post-apocalypse\/#more-12982\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Sisson&#8217;s only slightly tongue-in-cheek answer.<\/a> Nope, I&#8217;m not eating Fido, even post-apocalypse. But there are other possibilities &#8230;\n<li>Finally, here&#8217;s something to think seriously about. Kent McManigal asks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-5723-Albuquerque-Libertarian-Examiner~y2010m6d13-Wake-up-in-liberty-What-would-YOU-do\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What would YOU do if you woke up in liberty?&#8221;<\/a> Might spend a few minutes each morning over your coffee or tea contemplating that one.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wendy McElroy, the gummint&#8217;s view of all us &#8220;stay out of debt and be responsible&#8221; types. \ud83d\ude09 So this is the kind of person being hired to &#8220;protect and serve&#8221; these days. Whoo, scary. Maybe he should become a terrorist, instead. He seems to have all the qualifications. There are &#8220;experts&#8221; predicting hyperinflation. There are &#8220;experts&#8221; who sneer at that, pointing out that we&#8217;re obviously in greater danger from deflation. Here&#8217;s the best explanation I&#8217;ve seen of why the latter can easily lead to the former. &#8220;Toxic Citizens.&#8221; Even the WSJ is now noticing. And it says what&#8217;s bad&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/15\/tuesday-thoughts\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tuesday thoughts<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}