{"id":17461,"date":"2014-06-12T07:08:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17461"},"modified":"2014-06-12T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:08:31","slug":"thursday-links-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/thursday-links-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The middle class is even <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/blogs\/daily-ticker\/the-middle-class-is-even-worse-off-than-the-numbers-show-181906188.html\" target=\"_blank\">more screwed<\/a> than the numbers show.\n<li>Could the mythical cancer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scientists-create-a-cancer-drug-that-helps-the-body-fight-the-disease-naturally-2014-6\" target=\"_blank\">wonder drug<\/a> be on the horizon, or is this just another typical bit of overhype? Concept seems good: turn your own immune system against the cancerous invader.\n<li>Forensic &#8220;science&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2014\/06\/forensic_science_is_biased_and_inaccurate_but_juries_believe_it_and_convict.html\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t science<\/a>.\n<li>The NSA now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2014-06-11\/nsa-claims-it-too-big-comply-court-order\" target=\"_blank\">claims it&#8217;s too big<\/a> to comply with a court order.\n<li>Aw, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/kass\/ct-kass-met-0611-20140611,0,7730954,full.column\" target=\"_blank\">poor Clintons<\/a>. Don&#8217;t you just weep for their desperate financial struggles?\n<li>This is nice. <a href=\"http:\/\/college.usatoday.com\/2014\/06\/10\/former-conjoined-twins-graduate-high-school-as-co-valedictorians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twins joined at birth<\/a> became co-validictorians of their high school graduating class.\n<li>Whew! One more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/06\/11\/hallelujah_humanity_has_dodged_yet_another_apocalypse\/\" target=\"_blank\">apocalypse averted<\/a>!\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thespeaker.co\/tanks\/\" target=\"_blank\">backlash against police militarization<\/a> heats up.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G4Sn91t1V4g\" target=\"_blank\">cat people. Enjoy.<\/a> It&#8217;s a commercial, but another good one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/G4Sn91t1V4g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If the voice and approach sound familiar, it&#8217;s because you remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xw1C5T-fH2Y\" target=\"_blank\">Sad Dog Diary<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PKffm2uI4dk\" target=\"_blank\">Sad Cat Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The middle class is even more screwed than the numbers show. Could the mythical cancer wonder drug be on the horizon, or is this just another typical bit of overhype? Concept seems good: turn your own immune system against the cancerous invader. Forensic &#8220;science&#8221; isn&#8217;t science. The NSA now claims it&#8217;s too big to comply with a court order. Aw, the poor Clintons. Don&#8217;t you just weep for their desperate financial struggles? This is nice. Twins joined at birth became co-validictorians of their high school graduating class. Whew! One more apocalypse averted! The backlash against police militarization heats up. Okay,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/thursday-links-25\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday 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":[8,13,19,20,23,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-poly-ticks","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\/17461","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=17461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}