{"id":1975,"date":"2010-07-20T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2010-07-20T07:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:07:23","slug":"tuesday-thoughts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/tuesday-thoughts-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Michael Bellesiles saga continues. The <i>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i> (which first printed the latest Bellesiles baloney) investigated and discovered (no surprise) that the tale of the sad student and his soldier brother is false. <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2010\/07\/19\/chronicle-review-admits-bellesiless-story-is-false-blames-student-not-bellesiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">But it&#8217;s the student&#8217;s fault.<\/a> Um &#8230; aren&#8217;t historians responsible for checking their &#8220;facts&#8221;? I mean, isn&#8217;t that what they supposedly do for a living? And that tale Bellesiles retailed to the gullible was so <i>obviously<\/i> too good to be true. It just begged for the half hour it would have required to check it. (Tip o&#8217; hat once again to J.F.)\n<li>Kudos to jellydonut for being first to spot the development: the shutdown of Blogetery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/07\/19\/blogetery-owners-shut-down-bombs-al-qaeda\/\" target=\"_blank\">was spurred by a &#8220;terrorism scare&#8221;<\/a>. And it appears to be BurstNET that made the xtreme response on its own. But (per jellydonut&#8217;s link), could the whole flap have arisen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2010\/07\/blogetery-al-qaeda\/\" target=\"_blank\">over nothing but a link or two<\/a>? Still unclear right now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/article.php?view=1020\" target=\"_blank\">Still reeks<\/a>.\n<li>Could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedompolitics.com\/articles\/dell-1879-bezos-one.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, rather than Obamacare, be the medicine of the future? So far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qliance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s localized<\/a>. Almost makes a body want to live in Seattle. Almost. Fortunately, Wal-Mart, Target, and others are also helping to <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/Extra\/InStoreClinicsBoostWalMartsHealth.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">return health care to the people<\/a>. Not to mention all the private practices now switching to non-insurance models. I&#8217;ve spent too much time in the boonies. I didn&#8217;t even know about the Wal-Mart clinics until recently. When you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s up at Wal-Mart, you really do live off the grid.\n<li>A couple of today&#8217;s links came via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalreview.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Rational Review News<\/a>, the most consistently useful libertarian news aggregator &#8212; and currently in need of funds.\n<li>Finally, to end on a joyful note of personal initiative: when &#8220;the authorities&#8221; refuse to help, a man puts himself in peril to save a sick, starving dog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonic.com\/article\/man-pulls-a-reverse-lassie-rescues-puppy-from-canyon\/\" target=\"_blank\">from slow death<\/a>. The video he took makes the story all the more astonishing.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michael Bellesiles saga continues. The Chronicle of Higher Education (which first printed the latest Bellesiles baloney) investigated and discovered (no surprise) that the tale of the sad student and his soldier brother is false. But it&#8217;s the student&#8217;s fault. Um &#8230; aren&#8217;t historians responsible for checking their &#8220;facts&#8221;? I mean, isn&#8217;t that what they supposedly do for a living? And that tale Bellesiles retailed to the gullible was so obviously too good to be true. It just begged for the half hour it would have required to check it. (Tip o&#8217; hat once again to J.F.) Kudos to jellydonut&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/tuesday-thoughts-3\/\">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":[3,8,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","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=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}