{"id":22703,"date":"2015-09-22T19:32:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22703"},"modified":"2015-09-22T19:32:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T02:32:14","slug":"midweek-links-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/midweek-links-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Can&#8217;t really speak to the merits of the lawsuit. But the notion that it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/09\/19\/city-murder-victim-should-have-known-risks-of-public-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s your own fault if you get murdered<\/a> while in public housing is &#8230; novel, to say the least.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcvb.com\/news\/chief-to-cops-dont-pull-over-drivers-who-flip-the-bird\/35299704\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> should hardly need saying. Flipping off a cop might not be the smartest thing someone could do, but it&#8217;s still free speech.\n<li>Job of government: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/politics\/ci_28849337\/fight-brewing-between-feds-and-kombucha-tea-makers\" target=\"_blank\">keep business people<\/a> from succeeding.\n<li>Now this is weirdly interesting: you cannot ride <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MFzDaBzBlL0\" target=\"_blank\">the backward-brain bicycle<\/a>.\n<li>Via A.G. in comments: What refugees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carryology.com\/bags\/whats-in-my-bag-what-refugees-bring-when-they-run-for-their-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">carry in their bug-out bags<\/a>.\n<li>Concealed carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/customer-shoots-bank-robber-in-warren\/35398190\" target=\"_blank\">stops a bank robber<\/a>.\n<li>A very sensible take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagunblog.com\/2015\/09\/22\/a-high-schooler-a-clock-a-bomb\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmed and his clock<\/a>. Neither a &#8220;bomb&#8221; nor a devious Islamic fraud. Just a kid learning to tinker with electronics and getting more cr*p from teachers, cops, and now hysterical pundits than he deserves. (I&#8217;ve linked previously in comments to Brad&#8217;s similarly sane take: <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.6707\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendymcelroy.com\/news.php?extend.6714\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)\n<li>So if Volkswagen had special code in its U.S. turbocharged diesels designed to fool emissions testing systems, just how did they get busted for their clever trick? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/09\/vw-fool-epa-couldnt-trick-chemistry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chemistry, apparently<\/a>.\n<li>I never even heard of Brian Sewell until he died. But I think I&#8217;d have liked this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/culturenews\/11876957\/Brian-Sewell-died.html\" target=\"_blank\">crusty British art critic<\/a>. And his dogs.\n<li>So does this mean that that ancient song &#8220;Happy Birthday to You&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/music\/music-company-does-not-own-happy-birthday-song-copyright-judge-n432001\" target=\"_blank\">finally (and it would be about darned time!) out of copyright<\/a>?\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Big H\/T to jb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t really speak to the merits of the lawsuit. But the notion that it&#8217;s it&#8217;s your own fault if you get murdered while in public housing is &#8230; novel, to say the least. This should hardly need saying. Flipping off a cop might not be the smartest thing someone could do, but it&#8217;s still free speech. Job of government: keep business people from succeeding. Now this is weirdly interesting: you cannot ride the backward-brain bicycle. Via A.G. in comments: What refugees carry in their bug-out bags. Concealed carrier stops a bank robber. A very sensible take on Ahmed and his&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/midweek-links-21\/\">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":[2,12,18,19,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703","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=22703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}