{"id":21116,"date":"2015-05-20T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21116"},"modified":"2015-05-20T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:10:11","slug":"wednesday-links-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/wednesday-links-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So &#8230; how much impact, if any, do you think Obama&#8217;s <del datetime=\"2015-05-20T02:09:03+00:00\">ban<\/del> carefully structured limitation <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/anythingpeaceful\/detail\/obama-stops-tanks-bayonets-grenade-launchers-to-local-cops\" target=\"_blank\">on further cop militarization<\/a> will have? (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Only in the 21st century: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2015\/05\/18\/gutcheck-the-rise-of-social-network-dysmorphia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Network Dysmorphia<\/a>.\n<li>Incoming Boston University professor Saida Grundy first made news with a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/socawlege.com\/boston-university-assistant-professor-saida-grundy-attacks-whites-makes-false-statements-on-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">racist, sexist, and historically ignorant tweets<\/a>. But that was so last week. It&#8217;s even hard to find those tweets now, since news came out that she also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/05\/18\/boston-university-prof-in-racist-tweet-controversy-accused-ridiculing-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">trolled and taunted a white rape victim<\/a>. And acted like a generally arrogant ass, besides. Teach your children well, folks. &#8216;Cause &#8220;higher education&#8221; is increasingly unlikely to do it.\n<li>No surprise: the <a href=\"http:\/\/wolfstreet.com\/2015\/05\/18\/cash-is-coined-freedom-war-on-cash-becomes-official-in-germany-g-7-draws-withering-fire-bofinger-feld\/\" target=\"_blank\">war on cash<\/a> is going global.\n<li>It seems a bizarre contention, a claim no one in his right mind could make. But could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/is-nicotine-all-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\">nicotine be as benign as caffeine<\/a>?\n<li>And while we&#8217;re on the subject: <a href=\"http:\/\/moreintelligentlife.com\/content\/features\/wanting-versus-liking?page=full\" target=\"_blank\">The science behind craving<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in developments on the home front, if I&#8217;d had any doubt whether my ankle was actually broken or just badly sprained, I&#8217;d be doubting no more. The thing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-does-a-bone-fracture-itch\" target=\"_blank\">itching fiendishly<\/a>. I always thought the notorious itches had to do with the reaction between tight casts and dead flaky skin. Turns out it&#8217;s also from the healing. Thank heaven for being able to scratch! I think if I were wearing a cast, long about now I&#8217;d be trying to bite it off like a wolf with his foot caught in a trap. Still. Itching. Good sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; how much impact, if any, do you think Obama&#8217;s ban carefully structured limitation on further cop militarization will have? (H\/T MJR) Only in the 21st century: Social Network Dysmorphia. Incoming Boston University professor Saida Grundy first made news with a series of racist, sexist, and historically ignorant tweets. But that was so last week. It&#8217;s even hard to find those tweets now, since news came out that she also trolled and taunted a white rape victim. And acted like a generally arrogant ass, besides. Teach your children well, folks. &#8216;Cause &#8220;higher education&#8221; is increasingly unlikely to do it.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/wednesday-links-29\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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":[7,13,19,20,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","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\/21116","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=21116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}