{"id":17542,"date":"2014-06-20T01:07:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2014-06-20T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:07:11","slug":"friday-links-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/friday-links-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bloomberg&#8217;s (now-former) head anti-gun honcho blames victim disarmament failures on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2014\/06\/16\/gun-control-advocate-snowden-obamacare-hurt-our-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obamacare and Edward Snowden<\/a>. And admits that none of his efforts could have stopped a mass shooting, in any case.\n<li>It seems that shooting helpless dogs is no longer enough. It&#8217;s apparently more good, sadistic fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/police-dogs-throad-cut-officer-charged-with-animal-cruelty\/26553714\" target=\"_blank\">to cut their throats<\/a>. Can you even imagine? (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Codrea<\/a>)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/10-ways-to-make-your-life-better-today-2014-1\" target=\"_blank\">Ten tricks<\/a> to make your life better today. (James Altucher does this stuff better than anybody.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jpfo.org\/articles-assd04\/i-love-my-guns.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Love My Guns.&#8221;<\/a> JPFO reprints a &#8220;recent classic&#8221; from MamaLiberty. Nice going, Susan.\n<li>Somehow these two go eerily well together. It&#8217;s terrifying how much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-information-google-is-gathering-about-us-is-terrifying-2014-6\" target=\"_blank\">information Google has<\/a> on us and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/16\/breaking-microsoft-bans-use-services-promoting-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\">the danger Microsoft services pose<\/a> to gun businesses.\n<\/ul>\n<p>That fascinating musical group Ok Go (they of the mind-bendingly geeky videos and the slightly forgettable music) have done it again. They&#8217;ve released their first new video in several years. Despite its sad dearth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs\" target=\"_blank\">of dogs<\/a>, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU\" target=\"_blank\">maze of optical illusions<\/a> done in their standard one-shot (or so they make it appear) technique is still pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/m86ae_e_ptU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s (now-former) head anti-gun honcho blames victim disarmament failures on Obamacare and Edward Snowden. And admits that none of his efforts could have stopped a mass shooting, in any case. It seems that shooting helpless dogs is no longer enough. It&#8217;s apparently more good, sadistic fun to cut their throats. Can you even imagine? (Via David Codrea) Ten tricks to make your life better today. (James Altucher does this stuff better than anybody.) &#8220;I Love My Guns.&#8221; JPFO reprints a &#8220;recent classic&#8221; from MamaLiberty. Nice going, Susan. Somehow these two go eerily well together. It&#8217;s terrifying how much information Google&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/friday-links-25\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday 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":[2,8,12,18,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-dogs-and-cats","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","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\/17542","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=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}