{"id":1743,"date":"2010-06-28T03:51:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2010-06-28T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T10:51:15","slug":"monday-miscellany-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/monday-miscellany-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kabc\/story?section=news\/bizarre&#038;id=7520820\" target=\"_blank\">An 11-pound hero.<\/a> (Thank you, S&#038;L, for the news.)\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepets.com\/news\/amazing\/dog-saves-canine-pal-from-busy-intersection\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Another great dog story.<\/a>\n<li>Okay. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science_and_environment\/10404251.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Equal time for cats.<\/a> This is not only amazing cat news, but the implications for severely injured humans are pretty awesome, too.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitco.com\/ind\/Aden\/aden_jun222010.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gold.<\/a> Yes, it&#8217;s likely to end up as a bubble. But in the meantime, <i>take a look at that chart<\/i>. Besides, the Dow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/david-rosenberg-is-dow-5000-really-possible-2010-6\" target=\"_blank\">really could go to 5,000<\/a>. Are any actual humans investing in stocks any more? Or is it all just banks and computers?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/principiadiscordia.com\/book\/45.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Sermon on Ethics and Love.&#8221;<\/a> (Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!) Tip o&#8217; hat to C2 for this and the kitty story above.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whenfallsthecoliseum.com\/2010\/06\/23\/dont-mind-me-ill-just-die-here-in-the-dark\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t mind me; I&#8217;ll just die here in the dark.&#8221;<\/a>  Good one from J.D. Tuccille. About preparedness. Or the defeatist lack thereof.\n<li>Surprise, surprise. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcantwait.net\/index.php\/home-mainmenu-289\/6464-police-state-spying-powers-increase-under-obama-napolitano\" target=\"_blank\">Police state powers are growing<\/a> as Obama and Janet Napolitano continue Bushevik policies. And here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/beatthechip.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/nstic-blueprint-for-online-national-id.html\" target=\"_blank\">one more cheery example.<\/a>\n<li>Back to better news. Saw <i>Toy Story 3<\/i> on Friday. In the Big City. In very subtle 3D. Pixar does it again. Cinematic miracles as standard stock in trade; what a concept. It&#8217;s at 98% fresh on RottenTomatoes.com and on track to become RT&#8217;s best-reviewed feature film of the year (another Pixar standard &#8212; ho hum). Of course, one out of 1000 reviewers might just think <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.net\/reviews\/2010\/06\/toy-story-3-worst-movie-of-the-year.php\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s the worst film of the year.<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 Me, I bawled like a baby. And laughed. And marveled. And hung on for the wild ride. Don&#8217;t have kids? Me, neither &#8212; and who needs &#8217;em for an excuse? Go see it, anyhow, if you haven&#8217;t already. Take your hankie. (I&#8217;m not sure how much the 3D added to the experience, &#8216;tho. It probably added emotional immediacy &#038; a heightened sense of being in the action, but it was really very, very subtle. Unlike &#8220;Avatar,&#8221; the extra dimension isn&#8217;t crucial. Gads, Pixar just does such wonderful storytelling and creates such fabulous characters.) Oh yeah; think twice before taking really little kids. How a movie this intense got a &#8220;G&#8221; rather than a &#8220;PG&#8221; rating is a mystery.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-pound hero. (Thank you, S&#038;L, for the news.) Another great dog story. Okay. Equal time for cats. This is not only amazing cat news, but the implications for severely injured humans are pretty awesome, too. Gold. Yes, it&#8217;s likely to end up as a bubble. But in the meantime, take a look at that chart. Besides, the Dow really could go to 5,000. Are any actual humans investing in stocks any more? Or is it all just banks and computers? &#8220;A Sermon on Ethics and Love.&#8221; (Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!) Tip o&#8217; hat to C2 for this and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/28\/monday-miscellany-11\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday 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":[8,11,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","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=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}