{"id":22201,"date":"2015-08-11T19:29:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22201"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T02:29:58","slug":"midweek-links-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/11\/midweek-links-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Panama was already better than many countries on guns. A smidge, anyhow. Now, in hopes of combating rising crime, <a href=\"http:\/\/johnrlott.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/panama-moves-to-let-citizens-have-guns.html\" target=\"_blank\">they&#8217;re about to get better<\/a>. Only a little better than the original smidge, but it&#8217;s something.\n<li>Even the most worthless of petty bureaucrats now think they deserve to be treated and feted <a href=\"http:\/\/elkodaily.com\/news\/burning-man-gets-permit-blm-scraps-lavish-request\/article_f36569a4-d880-5c1b-9fcb-fcc72ccbeb3d.html\" target=\"_blank\">like Oriental pashas<\/a>. Who <i>are<\/i> these people, anyhow?\n<li>Once again, at least a few on the fringe are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/news\/vt-mom-who-lost-custody-of-child-kills-dcf-worker-officials-say\/34604788\" target=\"_blank\">sending the message<\/a> that they&#8217;ve had enough. (Tip o&#8217; hat to jed)\n<li>Yeah, now let&#8217;s see if the EPA and its employees get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/aug\/10\/editorial-epa-river-accident-happens-with-little-e\/\" target=\"_blank\">treated like a private corporation<\/a> and its people would be. Criminal charges. Heads rolling. Monumental fines. Screaming public outcry with environmentalists leading the mob.\n<li><i>The Atlantic<\/i> does a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/09\/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind\/399356\/\" target=\"_blank\">provocative takedown<\/a> of campus speech coddling. Doesn&#8217;t address freedom issues much, but focuses on how psychologically unhealthy this BS is.\n<li>I was going to say that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/business\/ci_28607542\/longmont-tiny-home-builders-land-spot-hgtv\" target=\"_blank\">this is another tiny house<\/a> I kinda like. Then I got to the part about a finished one costing $95,000. <i>Ninety-five freakin&#8217; thousand dollars? For a teeny little trailer thingie? Is somebody pulling our collective legs???<\/i> (H\/T jed)\n<li>A pair of beauties (and I really do mean beauties) via A.G. in comments. Jake Weidmann is one of only 12 master penmen in the world and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2015\/08\/jake-weidmann-master-penman\/\" target=\"_blank\">the youngest by 30 years<\/a>. Though I may be pretty good at finding stuff in garage sales and second-hand stores, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.messynessychic.com\/2013\/06\/24\/found-in-a-junk-shop-secrets-of-an-undiscovered-visionary-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\">this tops everything<\/a> I&#8217;ve found in my whole life &#8212; both for art and for mystery.\n<li>Kardashian overload. It happens to the best of us. Not usually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/entertainment\/television\/news-of-kardashian-family-sends-us-anchor-john-brown-into-a-meltdown\/story-fni0cc2a-1227478410450?nk=90ea1369b0e63353a31c9ec07fef35b1-1439262737\" target=\"_blank\">on air, though<\/a>. (H\/T jb)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I hope that keeps you happily busy for a while, &#8217;cause unless Washington, DC, sinks into the ocean, aliens land, or I find the tub from Cabin Sweet Cabin lying at the roadside before Friday, I&#8217;m taking a couple of days off. Should be back with you by the weekend, if not before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama was already better than many countries on guns. A smidge, anyhow. Now, in hopes of combating rising crime, they&#8217;re about to get better. Only a little better than the original smidge, but it&#8217;s something. Even the most worthless of petty bureaucrats now think they deserve to be treated and feted like Oriental pashas. Who are these people, anyhow? Once again, at least a few on the fringe are sending the message that they&#8217;ve had enough. (Tip o&#8217; hat to jed) Yeah, now let&#8217;s see if the EPA and its employees get treated like a private corporation and its people&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/11\/midweek-links-18\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midweek 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":[2,7,9,11,12,13,14,19,23,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-home-improvement","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201","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=22201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}