{"id":21388,"date":"2015-06-14T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21388"},"modified":"2015-06-14T09:35:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T16:35:28","slug":"weekend-links-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/weekend-links-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Hastert may be a criminal. But other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/14\/hastert_the_feds_and_theft_by_any_other_name_126966.html\" target=\"_blank\">feds are worse<\/a>. (Never mind that Hastert and his ilk <i>made<\/i> them worse.)\n<li>I admit it. Maeve Binchy, the mega-selling Irish author of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;field-keywords=maeve%20binchy&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=livifree07-20&#038;url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;linkId=MGUQUKUWVVJJIDI4\" target=\"_blank\">simple domestic tales<\/a>, is one of my guilty girly pleasures. Binchy died in 2012 of heart problems. While looking for something completely unrelated to her health, I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-1064488\/When-heart-failed-Maeve-Binchy-thought-life-wretched--shes-happier.html\" target=\"_blank\">nice article<\/a> about how she made the best of her initial diagnosis. Inspiring.\n<li>The fedgov has recently made it 5x more expensive to do. But Americans are again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/gabrielle-cintorino\/record-number-americans-renounced-their-us-citizenship-2015\" target=\"_blank\">surrendering their citizenship<\/a> in small but record-setting numbers. (Tip o&#8217; hat to MJR)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/06\/should_companie_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;No cloud for me,&#8221;<\/a> says security guru Bruce Schneier. And amen. (Via Brad at <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">WendyMcElroy.com<\/a>)\n<li>Okay, then, what exactly is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redstate.com\/2015\/06\/13\/left-cant-handle-inconvenient-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\">the difference in principle<\/a> between Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/article\/experts-say-best-option-now-keeping-nation-comfort-50617\" target=\"_blank\">This <i>Onion<\/i> article&#8217;s<\/a> been getting around, but once again it&#8217;s too funny not to link and too true to be really funny.\n<li>Can reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/can-reading-make-you-happier\" target=\"_blank\">make you happier<\/a>? Hm, dunno. Bibliotherapy??? (H\/T PT)\n<li>Trees. Trained to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/full-grown-tree-furniture-munro\/37709\/\" target=\"_blank\">grow into chairs<\/a>. (H\/T SC)\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hastert may be a criminal. But other feds are worse. (Never mind that Hastert and his ilk made them worse.) I admit it. Maeve Binchy, the mega-selling Irish author of simple domestic tales, is one of my guilty girly pleasures. Binchy died in 2012 of heart problems. While looking for something completely unrelated to her health, I stumbled upon this nice article about how she made the best of her initial diagnosis. Inspiring. The fedgov has recently made it 5x more expensive to do. But Americans are again surrendering their citizenship in small but record-setting numbers. (Tip o&#8217; hat to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/14\/weekend-links-17\/\">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":[2,4,6,7,13,16,18,19,20,23,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-cultural-insanity","category-health-and-science","category-humor","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","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\/21388","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=21388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}