{"id":21081,"date":"2015-05-16T08:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21081"},"modified":"2015-05-16T08:39:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T15:39:05","slug":"weekend-links-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/weekend-links-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Boy Scouts: doing their best to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/05\/12\/boy-scouts-gender-gap-column\/26715521\/\" target=\"_blank\">close the gender gap<\/a>. (Yeah, don&#8217;t ask me how that became their mission.) By Eagle Scout Jim Bovard.\n<li>And don&#8217;t even get my friendly local Scout leaders started on the Michelle Obama-inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scoutingmagazine.org\/2013\/12\/18\/feast-your-eyes-on-the-new-requirements-for-cooking-merit-badge\/\" target=\"_blank\">(recently) new requirements<\/a> for the cooking badge. Where&#8217;d the fun go? Any kid who had to learn cooking that way would probably avoid the kitchen for the rest of his life.\n<li>You want to be treated with dignity? Behave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2015\/05\/robert-ringer\/get-over-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">with dignity<\/a>. (Via ML who, like me, doesn&#8217;t agree with all Ringer&#8217;s points but thinks the overall piece is spot on.)\n<li>Six months later, they still haven&#8217;t been able even to question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/officer-who-shot-unarmed-12-year-old-tamir-rice-reportedly-still-hasnt-been-questioned-2015-5\" target=\"_blank\">the cop who slaughtered Tamir Rice<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3082114\/ISIS-execute-26-civilians-fighters-reach-gates-ancient-Palmyra-Syria.html\" target=\"_blank\">Religion of peace.<\/a> C&#8217;mon, moderate Muslims. Step up, please.\n<li>The loathsome Section 215 of the USA-UnPatriot Act is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/01\/section-215-patriot-act-expires-june-congress-ready\" target=\"_blank\">set to expire<\/a> next month. (I love sunset provisions.) Congress actually seems to be in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2015\/05\/a-long-awaited-reform-to-the-usa-patriot-act\/393197\/\" target=\"_blank\">a reform mode<\/a> &#8212; well, a reform-ish mode &#8212; about the surveillance state. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/07\/politics\/why-the-nsa-decision-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\">Courts, too.<\/a> But I&#8217;m picturing the heads of the Uber-Government (in the No Such Agency and other places) cackling wickedly and rubbing their bony hands together over their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lAV1wBT-jwU\" target=\"_blank\">Black Mamba capes<\/a>. <i>Laws? Regulations? Courts? Constitutions? Bwaaahahaha! The little fools! Don&#8217;t they know they can&#8217;t stop us?<\/i>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2015\/05\/how-to-take-over-a-small-country-in-10-easy-steps\/?singlepage=1\" target=\"_blank\">How to take over a small country.<\/a> (The kind of humor that really isn&#8217;t funny.)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boy Scouts: doing their best to close the gender gap. (Yeah, don&#8217;t ask me how that became their mission.) By Eagle Scout Jim Bovard. And don&#8217;t even get my friendly local Scout leaders started on the Michelle Obama-inspired (recently) new requirements for the cooking badge. Where&#8217;d the fun go? Any kid who had to learn cooking that way would probably avoid the kitchen for the rest of his life. You want to be treated with dignity? Behave with dignity. (Via ML who, like me, doesn&#8217;t agree with all Ringer&#8217;s points but thinks the overall piece is spot on.) Six&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/weekend-links-15\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[11,13,18,19,23,28,29,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081","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=21081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}