{"id":2032,"date":"2010-07-26T03:15:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T10:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2010-07-26T03:15:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T10:15:25","slug":"monday-miscellany-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/monday-miscellany-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having already posted my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/07\/26\/house-sweet-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">whoo-hoo news<\/a>, I&#8217;ll keep today&#8217;s miscellany short.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/business\/drug+policy+inconsistent+with+available+evidence\/3312371\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">ringing declaration on the failure of the drug war<\/a> from those most authoritative medical and public-health sources. Some insights into why such a vital statement is being resoundingly ignored.\n<li>Still &#8230; there&#8217;s progress. For the first time, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokeofthetown.com\/2010\/07\/va_says_veterans_can_now_use_medical_marijuana.php\" target=\"_blank\">federal agency is condoning medical cannabis<\/a>. Well. Kinda, sorta. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom&#8217;s Phoenix.<\/a>)\n<li>Speaking of progress &#8230; Over how many years and how many times has somebody announced that encrypting our phone calls would soon be as easy and cheap as encrypting our emails? Maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/zfoneproject.com\/prod_zfone.html\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s finally happening.<\/a>\n<li>&#8220;Thinking poor.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debtkid.com\/thinking-poor#more-11640\" target=\"_blank\">It can be a good habit.<\/a>\n<li>The other day I was googling to nudge my memory of a great old term the Finns use to describe their famous stubbornness, resistance, and fortitude. Instead, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalgraffiti.com\/featured\/white-death-simo-hayh\/20951\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> of one Finn&#8217;s incredible feats with an iron-sighted rifle. And <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the Wikipedia entry<\/a> on the man they called &#8220;The White Death.&#8221; Whatever you think of his achievements and his attitude &#8230; that&#8217;s some remarkable shooting skill.\n<li>BTW, that great old Finnish term I was looking for is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sisu\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;sisu.&#8221;<\/a> It&#8217;s so peculiarly Finnish that it can&#8217;t truly be translated into another language. It&#8217;s been called, &#8220;the word that explains Finland.&#8221; Yet at the same time it&#8217;s a great term for adverse times and tough people in <i>any<\/i> language.\n<li>Quote for the day: &#8220;We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.&#8221; &#8212; Plato\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having already posted my whoo-hoo news, I&#8217;ll keep today&#8217;s miscellany short. More on the ringing declaration on the failure of the drug war from those most authoritative medical and public-health sources. Some insights into why such a vital statement is being resoundingly ignored. Still &#8230; there&#8217;s progress. For the first time, a federal agency is condoning medical cannabis. Well. Kinda, sorta. (Via Freedom&#8217;s Phoenix.) Speaking of progress &#8230; Over how many years and how many times has somebody announced that encrypting our phone calls would soon be as easy and cheap as encrypting our emails? Maybe it&#8217;s finally happening. &#8220;Thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/monday-miscellany-15\/\">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":[12,18,19,20,28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","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=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}