{"id":21299,"date":"2015-06-05T02:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2015-06-05T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:15:43","slug":"friday-links-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/friday-links-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>PayPal <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/paypals-shady-new-user-agreement-opts-you-into-robocall-1708907816\" target=\"_blank\">wants to have a little robo-chat<\/a> with you. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>This one&#8217;s weird. Turns out there could be a correlation &#8212; no known causation, but an enormous correlation &#8212; between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daviddisalvo\/2015\/06\/04\/common-pain-killers-and-sedatives-linked-to-increased-risk-of-homicide-according-to-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">using painkillers and committing homicide<\/a>. Even ordinary OTC products like ibuprofen (Gotta be some anomaly in that study. Gotta be.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/06\/04\/dont-let-the-wookie-win\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t let the Wookie win<\/a> when the Wookie is brute superstition.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/straightlinelogic.com\/2015\/06\/03\/sacred-rage-by-robert-gore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacred Rage.<\/a> &#8220;It would be foolish indeed for a government that has lost a string of wars in \u201cbackward\u201d foreign lands to think, even with its military and police power and surveillance apparatus, that it could suppress an eruption among a substantial portion of its own well-armed and technologically enfranchised citizenry.&#8221; (H\/T LS)\n<li>Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/news.marijuana.com\/news\/2015\/06\/us-house-oks-cannabis-protections-and-punishes-dea\/\" target=\"_blank\">goes on a vote-a-thon<\/a> to protect the burgeoning cannabis industry and slap the DEA. (Much though I fear that the sudden fed enthusiasm for Demon Weed is just part of the bread and circuses effort, I still have to say I like and am amazed by it.)\n<li>Sheryl Sandberg is COO of Facebook. Her husband died a month ago in a freak accident while they were vacationing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheryl\/posts\/10155617891025177:0?_fb_noscript=1\" target=\"_blank\">She writes:<\/a> &#8220;Until now, I have been the older sister, the COO, the doer and the planner. I did not plan this, and when it happened, I was not capable of doing much of anything. Those closest to me took over. They planned. They arranged.&#8221;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal wants to have a little robo-chat with you. (H\/T MJR) This one&#8217;s weird. Turns out there could be a correlation &#8212; no known causation, but an enormous correlation &#8212; between using painkillers and committing homicide. Even ordinary OTC products like ibuprofen (Gotta be some anomaly in that study. Gotta be.) Don&#8217;t let the Wookie win when the Wookie is brute superstition. Sacred Rage. &#8220;It would be foolish indeed for a government that has lost a string of wars in \u201cbackward\u201d foreign lands to think, even with its military and police power and surveillance apparatus, that it could suppress an&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/05\/friday-links-40\/\">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":[5,9,13,19,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-free-speech","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299","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=21299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}