{"id":20766,"date":"2015-04-24T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=20766"},"modified":"2015-04-24T11:01:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:01:35","slug":"friday-links-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/friday-links-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Eeeew! Just when you think tech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystalknows.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t get any creepier<\/a>. And this isn&#8217;t govtech or secretive corptech; it&#8217;s meant to be you-and-me tech. (Via MJR and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/04\/write-perfect-email-anyone-creepy-site\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>.)\n<li>Tom Knapp on <a href=\"http:\/\/thegarrisoncenter.org\/archives\/1126\" target=\"_blank\">why America&#8217;s not ready<\/a> for Hillary. And no, it&#8217;s not because she&#8217;s a walking scandal machine. Or because of her corrupt and otherwise undistinguished career in &#8220;public service.&#8221; Or her utter phoniness. Or even the fact that she&#8217;s a less pleasant person than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/oct\/31\/jk-rowling-reveals-the-secrets-of-dolores-umbridge\" target=\"_blank\">Dolores Umbridge<\/a>.\n<li>Revolt <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/04\/22\/supreme-court-scofflaw-raisins\/\" target=\"_blank\">of the raisin growers<\/a>. (Incredible that a program this socialistic and this outrageous has been tolerated so long.)\n<li>Some background on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hcn.org\/articles\/oath-keepers-show-up-for-another-public-lands-squabble-this-time-for-gold-miners-in-oregon\" target=\"_blank\">Sugar Pine Mine confrontation<\/a>.\n<li>Obamacare causes the IRS to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/national\/8-million-phone-calls-to-IRS-overloaded-system-go-unanswered-300970221.html\" target=\"_blank\">hang up on<\/a> harried taxpayers.\n<li>Beware and being aware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoutdoorwire.com\/features\/229703\" target=\"_blank\">in the government-owned woods<\/a>. (H\/T L.A.)\n<li>The FBI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2015\/04\/fbi_s_flawed_forensics_expert_testimony_hair_analysis_bite_marks_fingerprints.html\" target=\"_blank\">fakes a whole field of forensics<\/a> for the benefit of prosecutors. And not for the first time.\n<li>A little good news: red-light cameras <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/this-is-why-red-light-cameras-are-doomed-2015-4\" target=\"_blank\">are going<\/a> the way of buggy whips and corsets.\n<li>Finally, for your amusement: <a href=\"http:\/\/elmtreeforge.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/things-that-i-trust-more-than-hillary.html\" target=\"_blank\">things I trust more than Hillary Clinton<\/a>. Other good stuff at that link, too.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eeeew! Just when you think tech can&#8217;t get any creepier. And this isn&#8217;t govtech or secretive corptech; it&#8217;s meant to be you-and-me tech. (Via MJR and Wired.) Tom Knapp on why America&#8217;s not ready for Hillary. And no, it&#8217;s not because she&#8217;s a walking scandal machine. Or because of her corrupt and otherwise undistinguished career in &#8220;public service.&#8221; Or her utter phoniness. Or even the fact that she&#8217;s a less pleasant person than Dolores Umbridge. Revolt of the raisin growers. (Incredible that a program this socialistic and this outrageous has been tolerated so long.) Some background on the Sugar Pine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/24\/friday-links-37\/\">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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766","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=20766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}